Tonight's meeting was really great. It would appear that yesterday's reflection (sermon) by our minister touched a nerve and she heard from a lot of the 30-45 year old people she knows. A couple of them met with her and she took the opportunity to run our current Vision and Mission statements by them. They had a long discussion and she shared with us tonight some of the things they mentioned. I think it was just tremendous that we were able to hear how what we are doing would be received by our "target audience".

We spent most of the evening trying to simplify our Vision and Mission statements as well as our values so that they are easily understandable by people who have never been exposed to church while still staying true to the Vision we had already pretty much agreed upon. I am not going to include everything we worked on, but I will put the current version of our Vision statement below so you can comment on it.

Esquimalt United Church is a community who is following Christ on a never ending spiritual journey.

I will put a link to all the work that we did at tonight's meeting (Vision, Mission statements and values) in tomorrow's entry, as soon as I get a chance to enter it in our (new?) collaboration site (yes, I am trying yet another one).

God Bless You!