Mosaic Embodying Church

A Big Picture Update

*the last 8 months*

• quarterly family mtgs

• creation of personnel team

• Prayer Team: liturgy prayer, prayer box

• Leadership Team (LT): new leadership structure and meeting structure

• Role Clarification (RC): new narrative bios and photos of all LT and staff

• RC accountability for clarifying Mosaic’s various roles: new scope and responsibilities outline for LT by Dec 2011, overhauled job descriptions for staff finished

• Annual Community Retreat: Nov

• 2 silent retreats/year

• College Outreach: On campus Coffee Talk (about theology) time, presence at UT’s Ignite retreat, fliers to put on campus

Financial LT subteam formed to find short and long-term priorities for uniform budget

drama mamas announcements :)

The major work for our “Superteam” Mosaic Connect site has been

completed for an eternity.

Workshops: orientationfinished, 1

workshop already offered, others

ready to take us through the

beginning of 2012

Summertime• last round of Superteam work on basic Mosaic Connect site work

• 3 more phases of Prayer Team launch

• mentoring pair ups: by end of 2011

• more discipleship opps: fall 2011

• kids’ curriculum development and launch

• Growing Young season: Sept 11-Oct 23

• more regular interactive aspects of liturgy: Sept 4

• College Outreach: free grub dinner groups

• faith & theology blogs by Mosaicians

• overhauled structure for liturgy planning

The Scripture Team has begunwork on incorporating

opps to center community lifearound the Bible

(It’s a famous book.)

Meet Ups ready to begin very soon

El FuturoQue sera sera...

• Yes, it will. Silly.

• Vol Thanks and Support

• Co-op Talk

• OUTPOURINGS:

• Refugees

• Packets for Homeless

• Random Acts of Joy and Kindness

• More to come from Summit Long-Term Effects Team during and after Nov annual retreat

OR WILL IT?

Fruits•Underground

• First Fruits

•Outpourings

a “few” non-Summit related shifts since January

• moving to Space 12

• saying goodbye to Seth

• finding a new music pastor

• Carrie’s ordination

• creating a new website

• risking sacrifice of Sam’s sanity for a portable

• kids and kids’ vols learning to work in a glorified closet with smiles on their faces

• kids’ sermons and songs

• soon to come: personnel team MANUAL

• lay counseling Care Team training

Articulation Attempts for God’s Guidance?

• I can at least keep a list of the things we’re working on.

• There is no list that will harness all that God already does with us, with all the playing and volunteering and worshiping and connecting and questioning and Sabbathing and God literally knows what else God’s doing with us as we clumsily grow together in Christ.

Everything listed in this update is a result of Mosaicians responding with imagination,

ideas, time, energy and especially PRAYERS seeking continued guidance from God. All we’ve done and are doing is a result of the

way we have chosen to recognize ways God is moving and growing us as a church family. You are embodying what it means to be the

church in many ways; some of those ways can be articulated and some we recognize as

God’s moves among us. I’m thankful to God for this church family.