Big Step
A Bold Vision for Northminster's Future
The Big Step is...
One Vision:
One Vision:
Northminster takes a Big Step to ensure that we will grow into a vital, engaged, and faithful outpost for Christ and our community for the next 50 years!
Northminster takes a Big Step to ensure that we will grow into a vital, engaged, and faithful outpost for Christ and our community for the next 50 years!
In Three Steps:
In Three Steps:
Stepping Out
Northminster Online and...
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you;
and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria,
and to the ends of the earth." - Acts 1:8
The Primary Step Out Initiative:
Elevate Northminster Online to major ministry status, and in particular, adding a live streaming product that evidences high quality and a personal feel. By high quality we want the video and audio to feel as if you were here. By personal, we mean you can see the face of a musician, liturgist, or preacher. If a person can’t be at church, our goal is that that person feels like the church is with them. We will be livestreaming both services.
Supporting initiatives are:
Extending our Front Porch through outreach, with a particular focus on local schools and local community
Improving our communications and technology, with a particular focus on outward directed communications.
Stepping Together
Children’s Ministry and…
Jesus said, "Let the little children come to me, and do not stop them; for it is to such as these that the kingdom of heaven belongs.” - Matthew 19:14
The Primary Step Together Initiative:
See our Children’s Ministry become a Northminster area of excellence.
Possibly, other than worship, there is no other focus area that is strategically more essential to our future then children’s ministry. By area of excellence, we are thinking that Children’s Ministry would be on a level with Good Friday efforts by the choir, Connect Day, or the Fine Arts Fair.
Supporting Initiatives are Focused On:
Student Ministry
Small Groups
Stepping Up
Faith and Leadership Development and…
The gifts he gave were … to equip the saints for the work of ministry
and for building up the body of Christ.
- Ephesians 4:11-12
The Primary Step Up Initiative:
Create a Growth Trail that encourages faith and leadership development. A truly healthy church is always evidenced by strong and growing lay leaders.
Supporting Initiatives:
We will attend to infrastructure issues that are likely to sabotage or limit the realization of the vision’s goals.
In a nutshell, we need to simplify and streamline the decision-making process/governance so we don’t require a third to half of our average attendance in the ministry of governance. We need to be structured for action and for ministry. We need to encourage and evidence a culture of trust and health. We consider this a step-up initiative because it frees people up for ministry instead of governance.
"I'm old, frugal, and against change - But the Big Step excites me!" - Sandy H
Big Step Next Steps
Ready to Take a Big Step with Us? Here's How:
Abide + Pray
Abide + Pray
Join with the rest of the church in a chapter-a-day from the bible commitment. Greg is providing a reading schedule that will touch most of the major themes and all of the books. These are the words of Jesus…"If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples!” Frankly, it is unlikely to succeed without God
Find Your Group +
Join A Team
Find Your Group + Join A Team
We envision everyone at Northminster having a ministry through which they give themselves away, and a place to be refilled, restored and grow. This is Biblical and sustainable.
Give + Give
Give + Give
To realize the Big Step vision, we will need God, the efforts of the majority of our members, AND we will also need substantial inflows. It is after all a BIG STEP. We project a 20% increase in the operating budget would fill the gap. This would be followed by a capital campaign for facility improvements that support the vision sometime in ‘22 or ‘23.