You can tell from this title that this Member Meeting was PACKED.

One of the first things we discussed in this meeting was the sharing of our Philosophy of Ministry. If you are newer to seeing a document like this, a philosophy of ministry is a framework that informs how a church teaches, leads, grows, disciplines, and sends. We wanted to share this document with our members to let them know some of this framework so that we might also field any questions about it in July's Member Meeting. This document is one that we pray will be helpful for our church to know how we go about ministry as a church and also as a helpful tool as we seek to meaningfully partner with like-minded churches and organizations.

As we continue to think through meaningful partnership, we also introduced our membership to a network that we created through which we can meaningfully partner for church planting and revitalization (The True North Network).

We also heard an exciting update from Mark about his acceptance as a missionary with Reaching and Teaching International. He will be fundraising until December and then head to Japan, Lord willing, in January.

We've also known that our pastors have been training and assessing some potential new elders this past year and they brought one of these men forward to our church for consideration (Rory Friesen).

We also let our members know about a home church that is going to be starting in the next few months. We will be giving more information about this in July's Member Meeting as we will be praying over this team together.