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 =====Introduction=====
 Welcome to Stone Soup. This is a plan to address needs identified by the Long Range Planning Task Force and generally revitalize Emerson Unitarian Universalist Church of Houston over the next few years, and to get us onto a path of growth and sustainability.
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 (If I can figure out the words, I'd like to briefly explain the theory of the plan here.)
-(Next section: activism. This is where we introduce the housing first program. Which segues into the Social Action Council stuff. Which segues back into the worship stuff. Which segues into the musical collaborations. Okay, this is making sense.)
+This introduction needs to establish:
+  * Stone Soup grows the church
+  * The pathways and mechanisms for growth are clear
+  * The way to get there is to shape Emerson into an engine for expressing our values in the world
+  * The evangelism effort needs to be the right kind of scary
+These are the three legs of the stool. Evangelism is three things:
+  - Be a church people want to join
+  - Be connected enough with the community that people find their way in by diffusion
+  - Invite people who are likely to accept and join