1000 Doors

maybe it's just me, but it seems like the information we need to share at the annual conference is extremely complicated. i'm afraid that if we try to do too much, people are going to walk away more confused than they are when they walk in. i have a suggestion and welcome your feedback.

okay. the theme is 10,000 doors, so the first thing we'd do is find like 3 sets of pictures of doors. it would be great if the doors could start off looking ancient and progressed to more contemporary and ended up classified as modern (like stephen suggested with the ancient/future theme). the doors will need to be animated to open so that words are revealed.

behind each door would be a single message, but all of the doors taken together tell a story.

the message behind each door deals with the number of new converts we have in our congregations. as the doors continue to open, the number of converts decreases drastically until one door finally asks what we plan to do about this trend. the next group of doors, ones that look different from the first set and are preferably a different color, begin to show the planting of new churches as well as the merging of other churches and the revitalization of still other churhes that meet our goal of mp3. these pictures would be of the success stories we have throughout the conference, that stephen mentioned, like bellwether and hope and the pointe and that one church that was highlighted at the convocation in rust and the like. here, we would be intentional about using real live people from small churches especially to show that we honor them and that the conference has not abandoned them nor does the conference deem them unworthy. at the end we could have a door open to show our goal of starting three new churches per year. the names of committee members should roll like credits behind the door as well, so people will know who to contact with questions, comments, or concerns.

basically, i'm just trying to roll all of what stephen said into a non-threatening visual that really doesn't even have to use a voice, just music as a way of communicating to the people the need to support the initiative to become more aggressive as it relates to congregational development.

honestly, what do you think?

Re: Assumption vs Fact

What I'm suggesting is an emphasis not an xclusion. We seem 2 b leaning more toward the planting of new churches when perhaps a realigning of resources, esp human may prove 2 b much more fruitful than we thought.

I'm totally with neville n thinkn that the last thing we need is another committee. Perhaps we should simply expand what we already have-neville, andy, lauren, embra, denise-plus eddie, lisa, david, bill, lovett, etc. Not necessarily these people but the areas they represent.

Re: Assumption vs Fact

Neville, if we follow this thought of establishing benchmarks 4 existing churches & xpect them 2 succeed like the new starts would we even need new starts? Couldn't we simply focus on revitalization? So maybe we only need new starts where there r no um churches around @ all. & how can we raise the level of expecs 4 the small mbr church that can barely pay her bills let alone her apportionments? Let's face it. Ministry costs $ even when its nspird by the Holy Ghost. So then we're bk 2 the issue of revitalization this time through mergers or relocations. Maybe that should b the focal pnt of our nrgy. Just thinkn outloud. Denise