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Church Board Info
The Church Board is excited to share with you missional priorities for 2024. These goals are something to become familiar with as our church grows under God’s nurturing guidance.
Please read the abbreviated missional priorities below. More importantly as you review these, open your heart and mind for God’s voice to speak to you and spark the excitement within you to help act on these priorities.
To provide an opportunity to openly discuss and hear feedback around these priorities, the Church Board will be hosting an open “Town Hall” immediately following the worship service on May 5, about 10:30 AM in the Meeting Rooms.
The Church Board Town Hall is a fixture of the new One Board model we adopted last year and will
become a recurring opportunity throughout the year (July, September, and November) to promote transparency and open discussion around all aspects of life in our church.
If you have any questions, please reach out to our Board Chair, Dennis Soughan, below.
- Priority #1
Recruitment, Outreach, and Growth
Reach new people through worship, services, and activities by focusing on our largest demographics (families with young kids, followed by grandparents). We are successful if we see at least ten new families with young kids and ten “grandparents” regularly participating in church activities by the end of the year.
- Priority #2
Engagement
Get all people actively involved in leading and serving in worship, service, and activities. For this year, we are successful when we have a solid understanding of what our current level of engagement is (metrics defined) by the end of the year so we can set an appropriate growth goal for 2025.
- Priority #3
Church Board Year One
Strengthen and refresh WUMC church leadership model by continuing the transition from a multi-committee Administrative structure to the one Church Board started last year. We are successful if we are working to implemet and follow the documented best practices by the end of the year.
- Priority #4
Church Direction and Future
Create strategies and take actions to help define and set the direction for the future of Waukee UMC. We are successful if we have forward momentum on our roadmap vision, infrastructure, and discipleship plans by the end of the year.