March 2015
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Missional Church Consultation and 5 Prescriptions Update Last November our church voted to move forward with our Missional Consultation team’s 5 prescriptions for our church. I want to take time to update our church on our work to date. Prescription 1: Churchwide Missional Alignment • We have completed our 30 days of season of prayer • Bishop Bruce Ough was with us to lead our worship of repentance and restoration of evangelistic zeal. • We are finalizing our preparation work to provide to our Staff alignment prescription coach. Our team who will meet with our coach includes Tom Van Wyhe, Brian Jans, Rose Rhead, Ron Kimball and myself. Prescription 2: Worship Excellence • The church council has approved our team members. The team members
PASTOR BOB RUEDEBUSCH Senior Pastor First United Methodist Church
leading our work on this prescription who represent a cross section of every worship service are: Tom and Crystal Van Wyhe, Elton Byre, Bev Gunderson, Lora Barthelman, Carli Steffes, Lezlie Larsen, Sonja Gourley, Kalani Jorgensen, Nancy Hallenbeck and Bailee Wescott. Future subcommittee members are: Karla Leach, Jodi Byre, Wade Byre, John and Jan Pierson, Mary Jane Richardson, Bill Hoff, Rick and Glenys Hull. We are still working on adding others to help in our sub-committee work with worship. Our staff assigned to this prescription are Kelby Fode, Taylor Johnson, Lynne Jones, Curtis Mittendorf, Pastor Sara and myself. • We have been assigned our coach and he will be coming
sometime in March to meet with our team. Prescription 3: Reaching Our “Next Generation” Mission Field • Our team consists of Stacey Jans, Pam and Nate Knuth, Valerie Mickelson, Nan Baker, Kristin Jensen, Anita Brenneman, Cynthia McConniel. We are still adding some members to this team. Our staff members are Tami Prostrollo, Taylor Johnson and Ali McCormick and Kassidi Smith. • Feb 27-March 1, ReNae Street, our coach, will be with us for the weekend leading our team in workshop. • We have made contact with Upward Basketball and will be forming a team to begin working on the details of offering this program next winter. (continued on page 2)