Social Ministry Community

• Celebrate and continue to develop our strong relationship with our Academy.
• Empower and focus our efforts so they will not become diffuse and loose impact.
• Recruit members who are reaching retirement age into volunteer service.
• Attempt to " Move Upstream" , as Heyward puts it, so as to do more to prevent human need. For instance, increasing home ownership, teaching a child to read, supporting jobs programs that work, and creating an awareness among our own members might do more to alleviate hunger than giving away things, as important as that is at the time.

Men's Community

• Set up a small committee to explore an educational role for the Civil War reenactment scheduled for the Fall of 2003. A short business plan will be submitted tot he Vestry.
• Develop communication and a relationship between our Academy and our ministry community, including fathers of students and the school administration. All men in the school community should feel invited to participate.
• Establish a committee chair for each of the Men's Community committees, leaving the Chairman of the Community free to coordinate between them.
• Foster cross-community communication so we can work with other Ministry Communities, such as the Social Ministry Community.
• Sign up more men and get their e-mail addresses so more men can learn how much we enjoy one another and what we do.

Child Ministries and Education

• Expand the Godly Play concept to cover half of our classes by January 2003. This program is liturgical and contemplative and is very suitable for smaller class sizes we now have and works well to define and form community.
• Explore synergies that might develop around the fact that half of our students are Academy students and that there will soon be a Godly Play room in the other end of the building. We are exploring ways to use the Meditation Chapel as a Godly Play room on Sundays without storing materials there.
• Recruit and train new Godly Play teachers. This will involve some expense, to be determined.
• We must provide an attended Cribbery without requiring parents to staff it for Sunday and other parish events. It is important that parents be free to attend their own spiritual growth. They can watch their kids at home. This program can be managed by Gina if money is made available.
• We need to support and continue to recruit people for the youth and teen choirs, which provide excellent opportunities to experience and express things of faith.

Youth Community

Regional Youth Group

• Continue to develop lay leadership for the Ecumenical Youth Group.
• Engage the Youth in social service
• Expand the number of congregations involved
• Improve publicity
• Build high school student attendance
• Identify and provide more spiritual resources for youth.
• Expand youth participation in planning, ownership, and leadership of this ministry.

• Recruit and Train more young people to manage the H2H material and technology (PowerPoint).
• Recruit and train confirmed high school students to serve as Lay Eucharistic Ministers.

• Improve Biblical literacy
• Implement the goals of the Spiritual Development Focus Group of the Long Range Planning Committee of Saint James Academy.
• Write study guides for the 7th and 8th grade curricula.

Entertaining Angels Community

• Attract and retain a more diverse membership, including singles, students, graduates, and older residents.
• Of key importance too retaining young families is a consistent, dependable, paid cribbery during worship, study groups, and parish functions. We are loosing young families to churches who furnish such.
• Single members and seniors should be given more attention.
• Nametags would go a long way toward helping to integrate new members and helping all of us to build community. We propose to put disposable labels outside the Parish Hall for all to use.

Stewardship Community

• Expand our membership in 2003 and provide for a succession of leadership.
• Face the issues of an expanding budget in an unsettling financial time.
• Learn new ways to relate the Gospel to our giving.
• Encourage members who do not pledge to do so.

Pastoral Care Community

• Support and develop a Ministry to the Elderly (Lyndy Eddy is liaison).
• Implement the " Dine in-Dine out" program to support primary care givers.
• Gather caregivers of ill and shut-in people for support and encouragement
• Provide workshops for life's transitions.
• Consider visiting local nursing homes.
• Provide members with training, retreats, and workshops done either by the diocese, paring with other congregations, or here at Saint James.
• Better publicize our work both to attract members for ministry and to encourage people to contact us who need it.

Adult Christian Education Community

• Create an expectation for on-going spiritual development
• Make classes easy to attend by offering them at different times or when parents bring their teens or children for programs.
• Provide consulting services for our Ministry Communities to teach them a simple way to do bible study and prayer at each meeting.
• Record sermons and some classes for the shut-in or elderly, and perhaps make them available to the Pastoral Care Community for a ministry to a retirement village.
• Make expanded use of technology in teaching, such as PowerPoint and the EddyMobile.
• Provide paid child care for some Adult Ed functions to allow young families to participate in worship and adult ed opportunities.
• Communicate the need and opportunities for faith development using the many and varied means identified by the Communication Community.

Wider Church Community

The hope is to establish a Ministry Community called " Wider Church Community" , which would do the following:

• Recommend delegates to the Vestry to attend Annual Diocesan Convention. One should be from the Vestry and one might be from the Academy, providing that person is an active member of Saint James. In addition, we should elect an alternate
• The Vestry delegate should attend Regional Meetings (gatherings of representatives of area Episcopal Churches.)
• This Community should inform itself of the resources, training, and programs available from the Diocese and Wider Church and pass on those offerings to appropriate persons at Saint James.
• Connect our Ministry Communities to the equivalent committee at the Diocesan Level and help recruit our members to serve on those committees to everyone's benefit.

• Assure that we support and assist our Newsletter Editor, and insure continuity and succession in that important post.
• Continue to develop and assist people to use our CD ROM Encyclopedia
• Look at our web site to provide more current, relevant, and perhaps interactive information.
• Establish an e-mailing list manager for St. James.
• Continue to develop the potential of the EddyMobile, specifically in communication in large gatherings.
• Look at installation of appropriate signs to make our exterior and interior areas more friendly to people not yet familiar with our structures.
• Help any other ministry community in learning how to utilize the communication systems of this congregation.
• Reinforce the Norms for Communication published by the Vestry as paradigms for building and maintaining the quality of this faith community.

Buildings, Grounds, and Preservation Community

• Utilize the completed engineering study to plan for the preservation/repair of our church walls.
• Study and install air conditioning in our church building.
• With the Academy, complete installation of the raised seam metal roof over the next 3 years.
• Manage our " Native Grasses and Trees" project and make it an outdoor classroom for us all.
• Identify the capital needs for the net 3 to 5 years and write a " Case" for them for possible use in raising necessary funding.

Saint James Academy

Continue to completion, review, and implement the current Academy Long Range Planning process. This report, soon to be available to the Vestry, will list priorities for specific directions to be taken by the Academy. Some ideas follow:

• Work with the Church to help families manage the stress of their lives, make God a meaningful influence, and become effective examples of living a life worthy of a child of God.
• Create a curriculum for Spiritual Development for our students.
• Provide Life Skills seminars and exercise classes that would be advertised to the general public to help draw people into this faith community of Church and Academy.
• Work together as Church and Academy in any way possible so that we can foster a sense of being one body, gain from the enriching programs offered by both Church and Academy, and increase awareness about all our ministries among people in a wider area.

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