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1. Some history, values, and priorities 2. What our 2014 work has been – will be

1. Some history, values, and priorities 2. What our 2014 work has been – will be 3. How we will be deciding our 2015 work. Our NRCC Roadmap: 1995-Present. 1995-2006 2007  2014 . C/Y. 3 00. Sun. “We’re Here”. 400. What does church mean?.

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1. Some history, values, and priorities 2. What our 2014 work has been – will be

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  1. 1. Some history, values, and priorities 2. What our 2014 work has been – will be 3. How we will be deciding our 2015 work

  2. Our NRCC Roadmap: 1995-Present 1995-2006 2007  2014  C/Y 300 Sun. “We’re Here” 400 What does church mean? values-driven system support Fac. $ endeavor endeavor SMALL CHURCH  MID-SIZE CHURCH admin, music, facility, communication, web, community care, groups (hi, medium, and low commitment) endeavor endeavor

  3. Our NRCC Roadmap: 1995-Present 1995-2006 2007  2014  C/Y 300 Sun. “We’re Here” 400 What does church mean? values-driven system support Fac. $ endeavor endeavor SMALL CHURCH  MID-SIZE CHURCH admin, music, facility, communication, web, community care, groups (hi, medium, and low commitment) endeavor endeavor

  4. Success: Spiritual Growth Metric: Experience

  5. Communal Practices - Growth Edge Groups - Discovery Dialogues - Life-Story Groups - Community Groups- Conflict Resolution Contemplative Practices - Centering Prayer - Examen of Consciousness - Quiet Reflection - Solitude/Silence - Sabbath Resting Learning Practices - Sun./Wed. lessons - Spiritual Reading (lectionary) - Enneagram - Self-awareness Self-disclosure Service Practices - Help NRCC be healthy - NeighborServe - Food Bank - HelpOneNow - WIHN

  6. Success: Spiritual Growth Metric: Experience LEARNING: Sunday Lessons, Wed. Modules, Enneagram Seminar/Groups, Reading Lists, FPU, Book Clubs SERVING: NRCC, WIHN, Food Bank, Haiti, Individual Service CONTEMPLATIVE: Contemplative Sundays, Annual Foci (summer, 2x year) Wednesday Modules COMMUNAL: social belonging personal belonging deep belonging public belonging

  7. Why We Do What We Do… RUSSIAN NESTING DOLL 5: WHAT DISTINGUISHES NRCC? “A Christian Church for the Quantum Era” - Traditional Christians whose faith is unraveling (Fowler 4) - Quantum people open to Christian spirituality (Fowler 3)

  8. Why We Do What We Do… RUSSIAN NESTING DOLL 5: WHAT DISTINGUISHES NRCC? “A Christian Church for the Quantum Era” - Traditional Christians whose faith is unraveling (Fowler 4) - Quantum people open to Christian spirituality (Fowler 3) RUSSIAN NESTING DOLL 4: DOING THE RIGHT THINGS - Creating space for authentic, supportive, spiritual community - Fostering awakening, listening, soul-quieted spirituality - Encouraging one another to influence world as our souls grow - Teaching Christian belief and practice for the Quantum Era

  9. Why We Do What We Do… RUSSIAN NESTING DOLL 5: WHAT DISTINGUISHES NRCC? “A Christian Church for the Quantum Era” - Traditional Christians whose faith is unraveling (Fowler 4) - Quantum people open to Christian spirituality (Fowler 3) RUSSIAN NESTING DOLL 4: DOING THE RIGHT THINGS - Creating space for authentic, supportive, spiritual community - Fostering awakening, listening, soul-quieted spirituality - Encouraging one another to influence world as our souls grow - Teaching Christian belief and practice for the Quantum Era RUSSIAN NESTING DOLL 3: DOING THINGS RIGHT - Making sure we do our best to translate our four categories of spiritual practice into calendar, budget, time, energies

  10. Why We Do What We Do… RUSSIAN NESTING DOLL 5: WHAT DISTINGUISHES NRCC? “A Christian Church for the Quantum Era” - Traditional Christians whose faith is unraveling (Fowler 4) - Quantum people open to Christian spirituality (Fowler 3) RUSSIAN NESTING DOLL 4: DOING THE RIGHT THINGS - Creating space for authentic, supportive, spiritual community - Fostering awakening, listening, soul-quieted spirituality - Encouraging one another to influence world as our souls grow - Teaching Christian belief and practice for the Quantum Era RUSSIAN NESTING DOLL 3: DOING THINGS RIGHT - Making sure we do our best to translate our four categories of spiritual practice into calendar, budget, time, energies RUSSIAN NESTING DOLL 2: WHAT TO WORK ON NEXT YEAR? - Annual exercise in planning next year’s work (resource/need) RUSSIAN NESTING DOLL 1: DOING THE WORK

  11. SCOTT DOMINIQUE BOB/ANN JUDY ROBIN MICHELLE MIKE CHRIS/JULIE TRISHA BILL MIKE/PATRICK GEORGE/TAMMY JOSH/SARAH TERRY/NELLE TAMMY/VICKI/MARY/CHRIS

  12. “who to talk to” tab

  13. Our 2014 Work COMMUNAL PRACTICES Improve Sunday hospitality (coffee, snacks, newcomer-help) Keep lobby literature stocked (thank you angie/girls) Six annual social events (still to come: 12 informal events) Design/execute values-training for Community Groups Expand Growing-Edge groups and train new group leaders Depression FB group CONTEMPLATIVE PRACTICES Not much new – Wed. modules, Jan/Summer focus LEARNING PRACTICES Annualize Enneagram seminar/groups First-Sunday lunches: “tough questions” Update and annotate online reading lists Expand self-awareness/self-disclosure (more than conflict) Made FPU an ongoing module (Thank you Riley/Jackie) SERVING PRACTICES Make serving NRCC more accessible Expand WIHN, Raise funds for Haiti orphans

  14. Our 2014 Work COMMUNITY CARE TEAM Improve our database software and in/out process (John) Improve our visitor contact email Transitioning to non-Doug contact (email approach) COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS Consistency for our bulletin, announcement system Update family page to work w/ teams and systems Buy enough wireless mics for worship team (Doug’s mic wasn’t on the list this year – thus the crummy, crackly one) FACILITY Facelift for Teen Room (no more dungeon for them) AND IT’S ONLY SEPTEMBER. 2014 ISN’T OVER YET… Community Care Team Community Groups Get-To-Know-People Events – calendar team More improvements to Sunday communications

  15. Our 2015 Work: General Themes COMMUNAL PRACTICES Lots left over from last year – high focus CONTEMPLATIVE PRACTICES Not much attention last year – higher focus LEARNING PRACTICES Got a lot of attention last year – no new systems in 2015 SERVING PRACTICES More consciousness-raising than last year “why care for faraway places when there are needs here?” - “Collapse” by Jared Diamond

  16. Our 2015 Work FEEDBACK BEING CONSIDERED RIGHT NOW… Develop family rituals for a new paradigm – birth, school, puberty, leave home Develop church rituals for a new paradigm – communion, baptism, sickness, elders Community Care – asking after one another’s well-being - Transitioning from Doug Teaching sexuality to our young people: – when? how? how to involve/support parents? Community Groups – next phase Book club(s) Renewing our contemplative practices

  17. MAKE NRCC YOUR COMMUNITY? WEB UPDATING (know some wordpress, or be willing to learn)

  18. MAKE NRCC YOUR COMMUNITY? POWERPOINT/BULLETIN TEAM (have a little design flair)

  19. MAKE NRCC YOUR COMMUNITY? MUSICIAN/SINGER (audition w/ George)

  20. MAKE NRCC YOUR COMMUNITY? EVENT PLANNING (church-wide events)

  21. MAKE NRCC YOUR COMMUNITY? SMALL, INFORMAL EVENTS (concert, open-mic, outings to museum etc) (if it’s something you like, invite some folks)

  22. MAKE NRCC YOUR COMMUNITY? EXTROVERTS (help newcomers know what to do) (help invite people to participate)

  23. MAKE NRCC YOUR COMMUNITY? WORK WITH OTHERS (be part of a group to get stuff done…) (set-up, clean-up, take-down, make stuff)

  24. MAKE NRCC YOUR COMMUNITY? [MAYBE – I HAVEN’T CHECKED W/ COUNCIL YET] WOODWORKING (build a rolling cabinet for our lobby coffee)

  25. MAKE NRCC YOUR COMMUNITY? HOST IN YOUR APARTMENT/HOUSE (groups looking for space) (book-club, community group, etc.)

  26. MAKE NRCC YOUR COMMUNITY? ORGANIZE A BOOK CLUB, DINNER GROUP, COMMUNITY GROUP (where it meets, what it does, what it reads, etc.)

  27. MAKE NRCC YOUR COMMUNITY? RESEARCH TEAM (help doug – read books, listen to podcasts, take notes) (they’re really good books!)

  28. MAKE NRCC YOUR COMMUNITY? KINDNESS + CONFIDENCE (check in on the well-being of people in our community) (the confidence comes in because you have to put yourself out there. always risky!)

  29. MAKE NRCC YOUR COMMUNITY? SUPPORT A LEADER (we have leaders for our outreaches) (WIHN, Food Bank, Haiti) (want to come alongside and support them?)

  30. MAKE NRCC YOUR COMMUNITY? BE A LEADER (we could do more things with more leaders)

  31. MAKE NRCC YOUR COMMUNITY? HELP KEEP OUR RECORDS UP TO DATE (take pics, corral datacards, help John input contact info)

  32. MAKE NRCC YOUR COMMUNITY? TEEN SPONSOR (warning: we have to check you out on this one) (are you good w/ teens? are you kind, wise, caring?)

  33. MAKE NRCC YOUR COMMUNITY? OTHER? (anything you’d like to do not yet listed?)

  34. FINALLY… our 2015 budget

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