No pictures to post for these days, well workwise anyway! We spent Monday out of the office and on the road meeting people, whilst yesterday was a busy office day. The day in the office included me working on updating the Baptism Records folowing the service on Sunday, and then working on the Evangelism Survey in preparation for the Staff Meeting in the afternoon.
Summit has almost doubled in congregation size over the last three years and their current situation doesn't present any accommodation problems as the school is more than big enough. However, there are significant challenges around running a church and caring for a growing congregation, which Summit are preparing to deal with. As part of Gerry's teaching portion of the Staff Meeting, he led us through the first part of a very interesting session on Decentraliation of the Ministry.
I think this is the kind of thing that CofS will be dealing with over the coming years as they begin to devolve ministry from a small number of paid staff, to a larger number of lay members. Some may disagree with the monitvation for this at home (i.e. cut backs), but in the long-term, I see this as a positive move and more in line with New Testament teaching about how the church should function.
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