HIDENWOOD PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

Our Mission
To open our arms, grow in faith and shine God’s light into the world.

Our Vision
To be a growing, giving community of faith for all.

Our Five-Year Mission Goals

1. Open our arms to visitors and members and grow worship attendance

2.Demonstrate our growth in faith through serving and giving

3. Shine God’s light into the world through commitment and involvement

Our Goals with Measurable Objectives

1. Open our arms to visitors and members and grow worship attendance

A.  What should our objectives be?

• Love God and show it
• Intentionally invite friends and neighbors to join you in worship
• Increase total worship attendance 10% a year to 486 by December 2012.

B.  How can we measure that we have reached our goal?

• Grow Sunday worship attendance 10% per year from December 2007
  (302 yearly average attendance) through December 2012 (486 projected yearly average attendance)

C.  Ideas we might consider to help us achieve our goal:

       1.  Worship Committee

• Study attendance records                       
• Study membership data
• Analysis information available, guests, etc.
• Make Bulletins and Lectern “new member/visitor” friendly

       2.  Worship Committee with Congregational Care Committee

• HPCS District Meeting to incorporate members       
• Screen for overall church interest.
• Re-involve 10% of inactive members within 5-7 years    
• Increase outreach efforts to inactive members
• Involve inactive members in life of church
• ID specific roles for inactive members
• Evaluate needs of church                    
• ID strengths of membership

       3.  Worship Committee with Evangelism Committee

• Involve 50% of all new members in first year   

       4.  Worship Committee with Christian Education Committee

• Attract 50% of preschool families to join church
• Have preschool Sunday & invite teachers, staff & families.   
• More frequent chapel w/preschool classes & invite families to attend.
• Provide more information to preschool families about activities offered to preschool age children and their families at HPCS. 

**Primary Committee: Worship (monthly reports to Session).
Assisting Committees: Evangelism, Congregational Care, and Christian Education.

2.  Demonstrate our growth in faith through serving and giving

A.  What should our objectives be?

• Love our sisters and brothers and show it
• Intentionally and warmly welcome visitors and members
• Attract 6 new members each month.

B.  How can we measure that we have reached our goal?

• Grow activity attendance 10% per year using an average total activity attendance at all activities of (see below) per year in December 2007 and reaching for (see below) by December 2012. (Identify the activities that will count and then keep baseline attendance for 2007. Multiply that number by 1.1 five times to get the target number)
• Track new member growth each month

C.  Ideas we might consider to help us achieve our goal:

       1.  Congregational Care Committee

• Develop form to track 2007 attendance and educate committees in its use.  These numbers to become a baseline for the activity attendance goal above.  Include the following committees as a minimum: 
  
  
• Congregational Care Committee
• Presbyterian Women
• Shrove Tuesday Dinner
• Men’s Dinner
• Christian Education Committee
• Vacation Bible School
• Rally Sunday Picnic
• Bible Studies
• Worship Committee
• Music in the Woods
• Special Worship Services
• Personal Commitment Committee
• Lenten Dinners
• Diaconate
• One Great Day of Service

2. Educate Committees on access & use of membership data on the computer

       2.  Congregational Care Committee and Communication Committee

• Put membership information on the computer        
• Make it available to all committees.       

**Primary Committee: Congregational Care (monthly reports to Session)
Assisting Committees: Christian Education, Worship, Personal Commitment, Diaconate and Communication.

3.  Shine God’s light into the world through commitment and involvement

A.  What should our objectives be?

• Learn how to be a Disciple for Christ
• Intentionally return for God’s purpose a portion of the treasures we are given
• Intentionally return for God’s purpose a portion of the time we are given
• Intentionally return to God’s people a portion of the talent we are given
• Give two hours to church driven community projects each month
• Achieve 100% participation in Commitment Sunday in 2008
• Pray for the imagination and the courage to serve Jesus
• Pray for the energy and the courage to witness for Christ
• Breathe in the Holy Spirit, give thanks and act as a Child of God

B.  How can we measure that we have reached our goal?

• Increase HPC mission giving to 20% of the church’s budget and maintain that level
• Tithe the operating budget to PEVA (½ of total HPC mission giving above)
• Increase HPC involvement with community
• Train church officers/leaders on how to give legs to the three goals above.

C.  Ideas we might consider to help us achieve our goal:
       1.  Mission Committee

• Sponsor mission trip to Gulf Coast through Habitat or Presbyterian Disaster Assistance.  Fall 2007.
• Give $5000 per year for 5 years ($25,000 total) to the hospital at CPK Yolo Sud Kinshasa, DRC.  The money to be earmarked for priority projects. Begin 2008; end 2012.
• Do one event each year and grow that event from year to year.  Utilize Pumpkin Patch in October and grow this event for the community each year

       2.  Mission Committee with Head-of-Staff

• Contract with Ken McFayden to lead Officer Retreat in October.
• Follow-up mini-retreat in January to evaluate where we are and how, if needed, to make mid-course corrections.

**Primary Committee: Mission Committee (monthly reports to Session)
Assisting Committees: Head-of-Staff.

NOTE:   ** Primary Committee(s) are responsible for the entire Goal and all Objectives.  They may involve Assisting Committees, and/or others, to complete their tasks

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