The first was to write the mission of the universal church after reading both Acts and section IV of the UM Discipline on the mission and ministry of the Universal Church. Our wording of it is "to make, or followers, disciples of Jesus Christ".
The second was to write what we believe God's vision of Arlington UMC is after researching both local church and community demographics, community leader interviews, congregational questionnaires and interviews with persons who have joined or left AUMC in the last five years. From that came our vision:
"Change your world by loving your neighbor",
A couple of weeks ago the chairs of our various leadership groups met together to rejoice ways our vision is coming to life and to begin the further process of setting goals and activities based upon our vision. This was a little bit more of changing our world by loving our neighbor.
Thanks be to God.
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