Our Starting Place

Our starting place is our ‘purpose statement’, which is as follows:

“The purpose of Rochford Community Church is to love and serve God, one another and the community:
We love and serve God through worship and building relationship with the Lord.
We love and serve one another through caring fellowship and encouraging spiritual growth.
We love and serve the community by demonstrating God’s love and leading people to Christ.”

What we intend to do is brainstorm ideas of how we can go about fulfilling this statement above.

The Art of Spiritual Brainstorming

The following is what we intend doing: Between now and your group meeting, please will you pray for the Lord to open our hearts and minds to catch His heart for our future. At your group meeting we will pray together for God’s guidance. Then we will brainstorm ideas of things we might do or become in the days ahead – these are whatever comes to mind, however apparently crazy they may appear; everything is valid. We will write down EVERYTHING that is called out to be processed on Sunday.

Focusing the Vision

This Sunday our morning Service will be a Pick ’n Mix style, part of which will be for us all to process the results of the groups. We will have produced a master list of what all the groups have said, (the teens have already done theirs), and after we have prayed we will each quietly read those lists and ring things we feel especially stand out. Then in our small group we will share what we feel are the key things that stand out in the process. These things we will collect together and they become the focus of the further deliberations of the Leadership Team.

Please, please if you are able to make the house groups and Sunday morning do. This is an exciting time in the life of Rochford Community Church as we seek the future vision for the church.