Report From The Body Of Christ

Dear Council Member,

There is an item on each month’s Church Council agenda called “Report From The Body Of Christ.”  Here is an explanation and some instructions.

Each month a different Council member volunteers to give this report.  We pass around a sign-up sheet at the annual leadership retreat in February.

Sometime during the month before your turn, please intentionally interview at least one member of Mount Cross.  This can be face to face on the patio, or via telephone.  Ask them for their impressions of the life of our church by way of two simple questions:

What do you need from your church?

What do you have to offer your church?

· Feel free to choose someone you know very well at Mount Cross, and thus make this job as easy as it can be.  

· Or choose someone you do not know and make a new friend at the same time as we learn something important about our church.  

· Interview very new members,

· long time members,

· those who attend each of the three morning worship services for different perspectives. 

Please explain to the person you interview that their candid assessment of the life of our church will assist the Council in their work.  Also assure them of confidentiality; their name will not be used in giving the ‘body of Christ report.’

Finally, please give a copy of your report to Pastor John (you can send it via email, too). We will collate the year’s reports and review them at the next Leadership Retreat.

Thank you for helping the Council to fulfill one of its most important functions: