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News for the Pews
(weekly bulletin insert)
Updated 2008-08-23
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Natural Church Development at Clear Lake
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You may have heard of a survey. You may have been invited by Pastor Diana at worship to come to a Natural Church Development focus group or the Planning Workshop on April 27. You may have wondered what it is about and what happened as a result.
What is Natural Church Development? NCD is not a program but an on-going process of evaluation, improvement and further evaluation. The goal is a stronger, healthier church. The results are yet to be seen.
There are eight quality characteristics of growing, healthy churches:
• Empowering Leadership,
• Gift-oriented Ministry,
• Passionate Spirituality,
• Effective Structures,
• Inspiring Worship Service,
• Holistic Small Groups,
• Need- Oriented Evangelism, and
• Loving Relationships.
These characteristics are universal principles that have been used by God to build his church--proven by a study of at least 1000 different churches on all five continents. Research indicated that no church that wants to grow can neglect even a single one of these quality characteristics. Survey results indicate the characteristic we most need to focus on for strengthening is "Passionate Spirituality."
Pastor Diana included a discussion of what Passionate Spirituality is in her sermon on May 11. On Sunday, May 18 and again on May 25 we will be asking you to complete a short questionnaire/survey asking for your input regarding this characteristic of growing churches. We hope you will participate, even though you may not have heard the message.
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Wingding's
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Wingding returns!
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Sept. 3:
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Chicken 'n' Biscuits
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Sept. 10:
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"Build Your Own Sandwich", plus salad
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There is a cost for the meal. It will be posted here when we get the information.
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