PART 2 (2022

AND BEYOND

Over the last year our entire ministry team began grappling with how to develop a more welcoming, clear pathway towards maturity in Christ. This has led us to develop new initiatives to better welcome and connect visitors, to share the gospel more effectively, and to more clearly coordinate our existing ministries to help people grow in Christ.

This pathway incorporates all of our ministries within three priorities: • Gospel-proclaiming (Reaching out) • Gospel-forming (Building Up) • Gospel-applying (Sending Out) With respect to reaching out, several new ministries and initiatives will be launched in 2022 that provide a dynamic, well-defined pathway for visitors and newcomers to be introduced to the gospel, invited into our parish life, and encouraged to grow in their faith through connecting with our current gospel-forming ministries Some of these new initiatives are detailed on pages 40-43. The majority of the programmatic ministry in our church is aimed at building up. These ministries give opportunity for all ages, stages and walks of life to grow-up together into mature disciples. Over many years, our staff and volunteers have been wonderfully productive in developing many vibrant, Bible-based ministries. It’s also become clear, however, that the pathway connecting these ministries can be better defined.

BEN ROBERTS, DIRECTOR OF TRAINING CHRIS LEY, DIRECTOR OF EVANGELISM JEREMY GRAHAM, ASSISTANT MINISTER: FAMILY MINISTRY AND GOSPEL APPLICATION In our age-based ministries (kid’s, youth, Ekklesia), we’ve coordinated the pathway to improve the transitions and handoffs between these ministries and identify people we might be missing. Additionally, the scope and sequence of our teaching will be more tightly aligned, to scaffold age-appropriate growth from childhood into adulthood. Catechism is a thorough and systematic way to ground all our members in the basics of knowing and living their faith. Catechism sets the stage for a life of growth and bearing fruit as a Christian, and in 2022 it will become more central to the pathway of adult formation. Starting in September, our catechism course will begin running yearly so that new members can join at any time. We also encourage longstanding members to join and be re-equipped for ministry. After being grounded in the basics, we hope all catechized members will commit to regular fellowship in a community group and find ways to serve in one of our many ministries as a volunteer or leader. In 2022 we are also preparing to be a church that is sending out. The most obvious initiative under this heading is our church plant project, which is detailed on page 41. Additionally, we are looking to form disciples of Jesus who are able to apply their faith in whatever context God places them, to reach out and serve our city for God’s glory.