- Facebook campaign to educate on what it means to be Methodist
- Every Wednesday, a new post will come out with information
- Like our Facebook page to keep up!
- Acts of Piety
- Pastoral Prayer Change
- Topical with silence for silent prayer
- Encourage personal prayer practice during worship
- Ministry Moment in Worship
- To promote ways to be involved at church, both in piety and service
- To deepen understanding of the church’s ministry
- Youth-Adult Mentoring Prayer Partners
- An Adult will pair up with a student aged fourth grade and higher to pray for each other
- Focus on prayer during winter and spring
- To deepen prayer life of the church
- Combined Sunday school during Lent
- To teach a method of praying scripture
- Lenten challenge to give up time to practice Sabbath
- Establishment of book club for greater intellectual challenge
- More to come through:
- Preaching
- Teaching
- Bible Study Opportunities
- Pastoral Prayer Change
- Acts of Service
- Facilitate meeting the needs of the community
- Communicating more deeply to provide for the needs of church members, our prayer list, and community members who are facing challenging circumstances
- Ministries Council will have private Facebook page and email group to communicate
- Fifth Sunday Church-Wide Service Project
- Instead of worship
- Engage in serving the community together each fifth Sunday
- Challenge: Church members to give at least one hour of their time this year to volunteer at church or in the community
- Ministries Council will put together a list of ways people can serve within the next two weeks and offer those to the church
- Each person on the council will come up with something to advertise
- Will dovetail with the new Ministry Moment in Worship
- Facilitate meeting the needs of the community
- Prepare to celebrate 150 years of Eastman First United Methodist Church in 2021
Goals for 2020 | As celebrated Sunday, February 9
