MEETING - MOVING - SATURATE - BLEED

Here at Gaylord E-Free Church in Gaylord, Michigan, we are zeroed in on our purpose and vision as a church.  As a result, there are four words that you will hear repeated often and see in print often around our church.  This shared vocabulary is designed to help our church family as a whole to always be reminded of our purpose and vision.  Those four words are:

MEETING

MOVING

SATURATE

BLEED

Now how do these words fit?  The first two speak of our purpose as a church.  The last two speak of the main vision of our church.  Let me state them both for you.

Our purpose here at E-Free Church is MEETING as many people as possible right where they are and MOVING them to where God wants them to be.  

Our vision here at E-Free Church is to SATURATE our county with the Gospel of Jesus Christ and allow it to BLEED over into all of northern Michigan.  There you have it:  

MEETING 

MOVING 

SATURATE 

BLEED

As a result, we spent the last 6 months of 2012 formulating a 3-year vision plan to help us MEET, MOVE, SATURATE, and BLEED.  This vision plan focused on five main areas of our church ministry:  These include:

Worship Services

Children and Youth Ministry

Connection 

Outreach

Counseling

The 3-year vision plan that we believe God led us in putting together was very aggressive as we launched it back at the beginning of 2013.  But now, 9 months into it, we are amazed at the doors God has already opened up.  My hope is to use my blog posts for the rest of the week to share some exciting updates and stories as to how God has already worked.