Goals and Giving
Our goals for 2014 were shared at Salem's annual Church Conference on November 19. They come directly from the prescriptions we received at our Healthy Church Initiative consultation in September. This next year we will: 1. Hold a season of prayer and day of visioning to receive, articulate, and work toward a clear, compelling, shared vision for the future (then design a plan to implement the vision); 2. Develop a discipleship pathway for all ages; 3. Create a permission-giving culture for participation and process for developing ministry teams in the life of Salem, identifying one-time and short-term service options, providing opportunities to identify and share their gifts, and moving from an informational to invitational culture; 4. Design a comprehensive, lay caring and accountability system to meet the needs of all who are a part of Salem as well as a system to connect new guests fully into the life for the congregation; 5. Plan and hold a minimum of 3 "bridge...