Pastors and Directors Josh Moody Senior Pastor The heart of all my ministry for the last twenty years or more has been to call people to center their lives on God. I am more convinced than ever of the timeliness and timelessness of that gospel message. In the extraordinary oncein-a-generation storm that we have endured this last year, we have relied on Christ, and centered our lives on him and his Word. He has been our rock. This year we saw our largest ever membership class. In the midst of a pandemic, we are launching another church plant. We concluded a capital campaign to pay down debt. The elders have also finished an extensive, prayerful consideration of the state of the church and where we are going and how we are going to get there. As a result, we have come up with five new initiatives. They are as follows: • PATHWAY. We will develop a simple invitational pathway for our gospel ministries: Discover Jesus, Grow in Your Faith and Impact the World. We will communicate that pathway through launching a new website by May 16, 2021. ▸ Rationale: After consultation with a Christian communications company and surveying the neighborhood, we have discovered that we need to present the distinctive gospel ministry opportunity of College Church more clearly and invitationally to the surrounding community.
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• HOSPITALITY. We will mobilize our care, encouragement and connection with each other through an increased emphasis on mutually loving and welcoming hospitality as a community. ▸ Rationale: After conversations with key ministry leaders, it is apparent we need to increase connectivity between members and attenders of the church through mutually loving and caring hospitality.
• DISCIPLESHIP. We will elevate biblically rigorous and practical discipleship by implementing a coherent discipleship curriculum across the whole church, including Adult Communities and small groups, by the fall of 2021. ▸ Rationale: After a churchwide discipleship survey, we have ascertained a growing need for more rigorous and practical discipleship that is coherently coordinated across both small and large groups.
• CROSSINGS. We will increasingly use our campus space for reaching the community by utilizing the Crossings as basic open space for gathering ministries by the fall of 2022, while continuing to hold a flexible approach to our other rental properties over the long term as they cash flow. ▸ Rationale: After the Site and Facilities Committee’s extensive work surveying the ministry pinch points, it is apparent that we need to develop our ministry space, and we will target the Crossings space.
• PLANTING. We will leverage the church’s history of church planting, training programs and connections across the country and world by committing to planting multiple new churches by 2030.
