From Your President ~ Janet Cummings

Hello everyone, 
     I thought I would give you a few highlights of what the Board and TLC (Team Leader Council) have been up to this fall, and also thank you all for helping to make our "Summer of Love" auction a big success.  What a fun event - thanks to the auction team and everyone who donated and purchased the wide variety of items!  It is great that so many "community building" activities come out of the auction, and they last all throughout the year.  
     At our leadership retreat in September, we discussed the fact that our mission and vision statement could use a "tune-up".  We created them several years ago, and want them to reflect the vision we are living now.  I believe we are living our mission by taking actions such as supporting the Black Lives Matter movement, installing our Blessing Box, and having our youth work on preparing and serving food to the homeless community (they are doing this as I type today!). A small group of us have worked on reworking the vision statement and would be happy to have some more help in growing this into a mission statement too.  If you would like to be a part of this process, please let me know, and stay tuned as we hope to share this work in January at our annual Town Hall meeting.
     I wanted to also give you a heads up that the "Long Range Planning" committee has been working hard this fall interviewing members and leaders about all aspects of our church, and making some projections as to how we will grow into our future.  They will be presenting their recommendations at the December board meeting, and also will be talking to the larger congregation in January.     
     There sure are a lot of hard working people involved behind the scenes to keep us chugging along.  Thank you all and good wishes as we head towards the winter solstice.

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