Vision and Assessment Team November 2021

 News from the Vision and Assessment Team

You may be thinking “Whoa, I never heard of this Team before!” That is because it is a new Ministry Team set up in our bylaws that we passed last year. The goal of the team as stated there is “to improve the practice of ministry and to increase vitality in the congregation.” Duties for the team are also listed. Basically, this team asks for inputs from you, analyzes it and communicates results back to you that we, the church, can use to strengthen its ministry work. Part of the job of this team is to assess our ministry with the aim of improving it. Find out what is working well and what could use some course correction. This includes our minister but for the most part we will be looking at our combined ministry. The second part of the job is visioning. This too involves course correction work. From reVision we know that we want to work with and for our mountain community. We will be looking at ways that our current efforts are working or could work better and perhaps new ways to be with our community. 

For our first project we will be doing a bit of assessing as well as visioning of our hybrid (in-person and zoom) Sunday worship service. Within the week you will be receiving a questionnaire with just 3 questions. PLEASE fill it out promptly. We would like to start evaluating the results on November 15 so we can make suggestions to help make the Thanksgiving and Christmas holiday services special for you and your family.

 The Team – Jackie Seymour, Mike Mahrle, Lesley Louden, Paula Leary, and Rev. Melanie

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Skyland Community Church, United Church of Christ
25100 Skyland Road
Los Gatos, CA 95033
phone: 408-353-1310
USPS mail: Skyland Church
P.O. Box 245
Los Gatos, CA 95031-0245
Website 

Location: 25100 Skyland Rd, Los Gatos, CA 95033, USA

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