March 1st-All Hands Meeting

Elders, MET and Steering Team was present.
-Mike demonstrated this blog and its basic functionality as a communication tool.

-Ray opened the remainder of the meeting with a prayer.

-Becky facilitated dwelling in the word. Many thoughts were shared about our human limitations (clay pots) and that God chooses to use us in spite of our ourselves. It is only by "His mercy that we have this ministry."

-Chad shared some brief training on the five levels of leadership as taken from the John Maxwell, a leading business trainer and previous church pasture for 25 years.

-Chad shared some exiting ideas around video technology. He will take a leading role in developing the resources and skills to better embrace video as a tool we will use in our worship and church gatherings.

-Lisa updated us on the METs latest ideas. Current target group for the first plunging experiment is Hidden Creek Elementary. The MET has lots of exiting ideas and will continued to build upon them and fully support the leadership of the steering team and elders.

-Jon gave the back ground of PMC as it came to this church, POCOC. A detailed article about this can be found on this blog titled, "Missional-A Brief Description."

-Mike shared a compelling case study that he was recently involved with targeting a neglected community in Federal Way. This included Capitol One, Sheriff's Department, Franciscan Health Organization, Mayor's Office, Local Pastoral Organization, Boy's and Girl's Club, etc...

-Jon shared the basic framework of our next few months. Together the whole group tentatively agreed to the following target dates: (These are just dates to shoot for, not set in stone.)

• March 22 MET will deliver a framework of the first plunging exercise/experiment
• April 3-4 Next Cluster meeting
• April 5 Steering will have Plungers recruited, trained, and commissioned for the first plunge
• April 19 First plunge will be completed
• April 26 Initial feedback from plungers will be distributed (via email, blog, etc...)
• May 1 All hands meeting to reflect upon first plunge and setup next plunge

-Connie reviewed Hospitality training and how it has gone thus far in the Byrd/Switzer small group. It makes you think more about hospitality and appreciate it more. The Tulley's group will consider using the same hospitality curriculum too.

-Jon reviewed the Adaptive Challenge and encouraged the MET to openly discuss it and any proposed modifications they might have. The MET led by Lisa requested that we continue with the current wording until after the plunge.

-Melvin closed the meeting with a prayer.