Liza Friske Hospitality Committee Chair This year the landscape for the Hospitality Committee completely changed due to COVID-19. We missed being able to partner with and serve the body of Christ and those who are new to our church in our normal capacity. Our hope and prayer this year is that we can begin to resume many of our normal connection points. A few highlights that we look forward to resuming are serving coffee in the Narthex each Sunday morning and assisting with membership classes and visitor lunches. We miss the fellowship of the Thanksgiving Eve Pie Social and Carols and Cocoa at Christmas! And we look forward to serving again after the annual Children’s Choir and STARS concert programs. We pray that as our church doors are now open again that we can participate and serve the body of Christ to the glory of God with smiling faces, although they may be tucked behind a mask or two.
Jan Jones Service and Engagement Committee Chair The Service and Engagement Committee (SEC) had a fun and productive 2020-2021! We worked collaboratively within College Church to assist with congregant engagement at the individual and corporate level through membership, celebrations of service, fellowship dinners, a Reach Out and Touch Campaign
(underway at this writing) and many other activities. Our motto for this year has been “Growing in Unity” and each of us had differing ideas on the zeitgeist of 2020-2021, but we worked hard to keep the main thing the main thing, and the main thing is THE GOSPEL. We continued to build relationships with our congregants to help them put their faith in action so that they can grow in their faith and then tell others about Jesus. Each SEC member was asked to read the book Creative Minority by Jon Tyson and Heather Grizzle. Here’s a quote that sums up the book: “Becoming a Creative Minority paints a complete picture of the way the church is called to participate in these challenging and demanding times – seeking neither to control nor abandon the world, but to love it to new life through redemptive participation. In applying the idea of a Creative Minority to a Christian community, I [the author] describe it as follows: 35
