Visioning
Announcement: Our next Visioning Team meeting will be held on Sunday, March 18th at 11:30 a.m. at the home of Jeff and Julie Rogers 10266 Prosser Dr., Truckee. Email Edie for more information.
Truckee Lutheran Presbyterian Church (TLPC) is currently involved in a visioning process with a consultant from the Alban Institute.
About 14 months ago Pastor Ed brought up to TLPC’s Council the suggestion that it was time for our congregation to embark on a process of discernment or visioning. He stated that this process of discernment would be key in prayerfully determining what our future has in store. At the 2010 Annual Meeting, the congregation whole heartedly embraced this proposal and the expenses involved.
After a look at various consulting firms who assist congregations in visioning, we began by engaging Rev. Sarai Rice, a consultant with the Alban institute, to guide us through the process.
We first met with Sarai on Saturday, July 23, 2012. At that meeting Visioning Team members shared thoughts and a history of our congregation and our own stories. Then we developed a plan for gathering our congregation’s stories. In late August we spent a Sunday Worship service gathering these stories.
On January 7th we held and all day meeting with Sarai. This session is the heart of our planning thus far. During this session we discussed what we saw as the purpose of “the Church” and surmised that it was to spread Jesus words of love and grace, to teach us to love our neighbor and a place to live out God’s love, and our core beliefs. We also focused on the concerns and joys expressed in the stories generated from the members and attendees to TLPC. They were placed under one of these categories: Assets, Attributes, Story line (the words we use to describe our church), Context and Challenges.
Through small group processing working with our assets, attributes, challenges and context we came up with the following goals 3 goals:
• To increase our organizational capacity (human and financial)
• To expand our congregations connections to the community
• To expand spiritual learning and growth opportunities
For more details and members of the TLPC Visioning Team, click on the following links:
Report of the January 7, 2012 Visioning Team Meeting
