2012 – 2014 Strategic Ministry Plan

2012

Outreach and Missions
  • establish children’s club ministry
  • organize volunteers for card ministry to Jasper County Jail inmates
  • establish greeter ministry

Internal Ministry and Discipleship                                     
  • schedule revival meetings for the fall
  • evaluate the need for and the feasibility of establishing a permanent young adult class
  • organize an “assistance network” (to include needs of widows, shut ins, and others)

Ministry Support
  • resolve all safety issues for youth loft and obtain occupancy permit
  • rebuild and re-launch church web-site
  • paint, redecorate Sunday School rooms and nursery
2013

Outreach and Missions
  • create plan for fair / festival booth ministry
  • launch fair / festival booth ministry in the fall
  • create plan for adult mission trip in 2014
  • take youth group on state side mission trip

Internal Ministry and Discipleship
  • consider re-establishing prayer meeting (time, place, etc.) or establish a prayer team
  • consider the best way to minister to “younger” families with kids (occasional classes, “parenting network”, etc.)

Ministry Support
  • Evaluate and improve church wide promotion in the community (general ministry, youth group, VBS and children’s ministry, ladies and men’s ministries, promotional mailings, etc.)
  • create a general landscape / lawn improvement plan
2014

Outreach and Missions
  • send adult mission trip
  • consider feasibility of CBC providing more worship services in local nursing homes
  • Organize benevolence ministry into a “community care network” (lists of resources, availability of clothing and food, etc.)

Internal Ministry and Discipleship
  • youth leaders, men’s ministry leaders consider whether to include camp out in the youth schedule or in men’s ministry schedule
  • expand “assistance network” ministry to include various other care ministries (nursing home and shut-in visitation, meals when needed, cards and phone calls of encouragement, etc.)

Ministry Support
  • finish A/C in the auditorium
  • start plans for redecorating hallways and entryways