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| ====State of This Page==== | ====State of This Page==== | ||
| - | Stone Soup is a plan (in progress) to address Emerson' | + | Stone Soup is a plan (in progress) to address Emerson' |
| - | * 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 | + | |
| - | The lead needs to be really brief. I want to put everything in there and I need to not. The rest of the page should be links to other pages. Each of those is an item of one type: | + | The rest of the page should be links to other pages. Each of those will be one of three things: |
| * Initiatives, | * Initiatives, | ||
| * Policy recommendations, | * Policy recommendations, | ||
| - | * Discussion items | + | * Discussion items (which probably means "I don't know specifically what to do here") |
| - | Efforts fall broadly into three categories: | + | "Each of those pages needs to" isn't written yet. |
| - | - Ministries / internal processes | + | |
| - | - Missionary / Activist / Outward-facing initiatives | + | |
| - | - Evangelism efforts | + | |
| - | These are the three legs of the stool. Evangelism is three things: | + | The page should conclude with a very brief summary |
| - | - 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 | + | |
| - | The first part is a function of having good ministries and programs. Worship programming has to be excellent, and church programs have to do obvious good in the world. People join churches like that without having to be marketed to. | ||
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| - | That's the structure of the plan in a nutshell. | ||
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| - | The page should conclude with a very brief summary of the big asks. | ||
| ====Points Currently Lost==== | ====Points Currently Lost==== | ||
| * Probably the most important discussion item is **we need boundaries around church resources**. | * Probably the most important discussion item is **we need boundaries around church resources**. | ||
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| * A timeline, or an order of operations, remains unaddressed as a problem. Some items have explicit interdependencies listed but it needs to be more fleshed out. These initiatives support each other and that is getting lost. | * A timeline, or an order of operations, remains unaddressed as a problem. Some items have explicit interdependencies listed but it needs to be more fleshed out. These initiatives support each other and that is getting lost. | ||
| * Emerson needs some work before it's ready to evangelize about itself | * Emerson needs some work before it's ready to evangelize about itself | ||
| + | * We don't do post-mortems and we need to start doing them for most everything | ||
| + | * If we don't have a worship calendar that commits us to specific services for each of the faith traditions we're supposed to represent, we should make one. | ||
| + | * Rather than trying to **grow** the worship **committee**, | ||
| + | * Growing the committee a person at a time is likely to continue failing. We need to train a batch of people on our workflow and get good at it together, so we've got people in all parts of the church who can get a service across the finish line. | ||
| + | * The word " | ||
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| * We need to grapple with the bougie, the out-of-touch, | * We need to grapple with the bougie, the out-of-touch, | ||
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| + | =====The In Order Part===== | ||
| - | [[emerson: | + | * [[emerson: |
| + | * housing first program | ||
| + | * leads to aid program connections | ||
| + | * connects to [[emerson: | ||
| + | * results in social action policy document platform thing | ||
| + | * causes shift in how worship programming gets selected: [[emerson: | ||
| + | * Worship Ministry Rebuild and workflow review (aka Digital Infra Overhaul Part 1) | ||
| + | * opens the door for the [[emerson: | ||
| + | * ditto for [[emerson: | ||
| - | * For Your Consideration: | + | If this is done as a presentation, |
| - | * Probably propose new boundaries but maybe that' | + | |
| + | * an essential part of this plan is [[emerson: | ||
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| =====Ministries===== | =====Ministries===== | ||
| We need to set a boundary we have not historically had, and that is that **shared interest is not enough justification to start a ministry**. It needs to serve the mission of the church. | We need to set a boundary we have not historically had, and that is that **shared interest is not enough justification to start a ministry**. It needs to serve the mission of the church. | ||
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| + | (I wrote the same damn thing three times in different places and it's still not what I need here.) | ||
| We need to elevate the quality of our worship programming. The music is great but the music program has some constraints we need to lift, and the rest of the programming... we'll talk about it. But basically, we need more barn-burners. Sunday services have to be good or a church will fail no matter what else it's doing. | We need to elevate the quality of our worship programming. The music is great but the music program has some constraints we need to lift, and the rest of the programming... we'll talk about it. But basically, we need more barn-burners. Sunday services have to be good or a church will fail no matter what else it's doing. | ||
| - | [[emerson: | + | Julia needs to be full-time. We also need at least four part-time musicians. (That includes Ariel.) Where possible, we should try to hire instrumentalists who can also be section leaders. Emerson is **heavy** into instrumental music; we need to leverage that. |
| - | [[emerson:stone-soup: | + | Proposal: **We need to pay our music director enough that this can be her only job.** |
| - | [[emerson:stone-soup: | + | Discussion: As we hire musicians, we need to hire instrumentalists who sing, not just singers. |
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| - | =====Activism===== | + | [[emerson: |
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| - | ===Climate Change=== | + | [[emerson: |
| - | The only idea I have for something we can do for climate change would be an interfaith game of The Biggest Loser where different congregations take members' | + | |
| - | The only other idea I have is engineered self-replicating C4 photosynthesizers that can take over the surface area of the ocean in 15 years. I don't know enough bioengineering for that and, despite our proximity | + | [[emerson: |
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| ===Direct Aid=== | ===Direct Aid=== | ||
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| =====Evangelism===== | =====Evangelism===== | ||
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| - | ===Social Media=== | + | [[emerson: |
| - | Social media strategy | + | |
| - | ==YouTube== | ||
| - | We need people to engage on YouTube. The Algorithm likes engagement. We should ask our audience to comment with timestamps to bits they found meaningful. (We should also capture those comments with other feedback on the service.) | ||
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| - | Some sermon segments might make good short-form content. We should do that. | ||
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| - | ==Discord== | ||
| - | We need an official Emerson Discord server. For those of us who use it, it's just too damn convenient. Nothing else comes close in terms of usability and utility. But for right now, it should probably be invite-only, | ||
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| - | I'm willing to set one up and do very basic administration as long as the moderation requirements stay very small. | ||
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| - | If there' | ||
| =====What I am asking (and not asking) of YOU===== | =====What I am asking (and not asking) of YOU===== | ||
| - | ====What I Need==== | ||
| - | I'm just putting this up top so it doesn' | ||
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| - | This is a lot of plates to spin. There are some large parts that I simply have to do myself. I can't do it from Cypress. | ||
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| - | I need a place of my own that is close enough to church I can get myself back and forth, preferably via a single bus ride on a high-frequency route. I need enough room that I don't have to have a storage unit anymore. I need enough room to set up two desks, one for audio work. | ||
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| - | I need enough money that I can pay my bills, buy groceries, pay for medications. I'm not that expensive to keep around. | ||
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| - | How it gets structured matters. I have serious trust issues right now. Something needs to be in place that says the church can't change its mind and abandon me. | ||
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