Vision Sunday - November 2022
by Terryann McCoy, chair Servant Leadership Team
Terryann McCoy, chair of the Leadership Team, presented the goals that the SLT has developed for the next year. Below is an overview of those goals. If you would like more details, please contact Terryann or Pastor Eva Marie.
Our mission/vision/strengths/challenges, and what we seek in pastoral leadership:
The mission of New Zion United Methodist Church is to make disciples of Jesus Christ for the transformation of the world. Our vision is caring deeply, loving unconditionally, offering hope and new life through Jesus Christ.
The congregation is strong in hospitality and nurture, giving outside the church, and service outside the church. It seeks revitalization, young families, children, youth, knowing how to be a church for young families, and being more invitational. Its greatest need is local neighborhood outreach to those in its radius.
New Zion prays for its pastor to be someone who can work with all demographics, is a servant leader with flexibility, is technologically savvy and is strong in the HOPE model (Hospitality/Offering Christ/Practicing/Engaging in Community). The congregation desires for its pastor to be a servant leader with flexibility to listen and work with various ideas and opinions expressed by the members of the congregation, rather than strictly insist on their own way.
Our pastor’s relevant strengths:
The pastor has a missional focus that encompass people of all ages who become missional in their context.
The pastor has strategic planning abilities.
The pastor has a focus on forming relationships in the community and seeking to discover and work towards meeting the needs of the community.
Our Goals
We will be a worshiping community that is directed towards praising and learning God and is welcoming to people of all ages.
* The worship team will provide input into the planning and execution of worship and they, along with other members of the congregation, will be active participants in leading worship.
We will seek to be known and active as a faith community that meets the needs of the wider community with Christ-like love
* The congregation will introduce the pastor to people, organizations and events in the community and will continue and broaden its own engagement, especially outside its primary demographic (i.e., young adults and young families).
We will care for the sick and homebound members and constituents of the congregation.
* The congregation will visit and connect with the sick and the homebound in the ways appropriate to them and will inform the pastor of pastoral care needs.
We will support the pastor in her Sabbath time, vacation, spiritual development and continuing education by supporting her in taking that time and by facilitating back-up when she is absent.