We're Halfway There! Woooh-OH! Choosing a Focus!

On Sunday, we held our final Choosing a Focus Town Hall meeting.  Thank you to everyone who has participated in this process so far!  The turnout has been good and the discussion around these topics has been wonderful.  It has been amazing to share with you something that Session and I have been working on for quite some time.  It has been even greater to hear you all get fired up and excited by the ideas we are putting forward.

With that said… we only have 67% congregational participating rate at this point!
The goal I set was for 80% participation.
That means that we need 7 more Northminster people to participate.
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While we have a clear preference for our #1 idea, two ideas are tied for our #2 spot. In order to complete this step in the process, we need a clear second choice.

Therefore, I am asking those who have yet to participate and vote to join in the process!  It doesn’t matter if you live close by or far away; it doesn’t matter if you attend frequently or infrequently, it doesn’t matter if you are an official, card-carrying member or just a part of the wider Northminster community: if you are invested in the future of Northminster, we want to hear from you!!!

In order to (hopefully) achieve the goal of 80% participation, I am extending the process 2 more weeks.  HERE and on our website is the Choosing the Focus Presentation.  If you have not yet done so, please read through it.  The presentation includes:

1. Background of how we got here
2. An explanation of the process and how to use the rubric
3. Explanations of the four proposed ideas
4. And an explanation on how to vote.

​Feel free to walk through this process yourself or reach out to me if you want to discuss it with someone.  And if I don’t hear back from enough folks, I will begin reaching out directly asking folks what they think.

Once this process is done, we will tally the results, share the top two ideas, and schedule a congregational meeting to discuss and vote on which of these two will be our ministry focus moving forward.

Again, thank you to all of you who have participated so far.  I have added in many of the suggestions that have been discussed in the town hall meetings thus far.

Blessings,
Pastor Chris