2022-23 Vestry Goals

Each year at its summer retreat our vestry reflects on the past year and sets ministry goals for the year ahead.

Here are our goals for summer 2022 through summer 2023:

Complete a healthy transition in our music ministry:

• Celebrate our interim music staff
• Welcome our new Director of Music
• Launch our choir year with energy and enthusiasm
• If possible, start a Children’s Choir program and a handbell group

Improve our ability to attract, welcome, and integrate newcomers:

• Support the Invite, Welcome, Connect team as they discover new ways to do this

Strengthen our formation programs for children, youth, and adults:

• Launch Sunday formation hour with Godly Play, Youth Group, Sunday Forum
• Continue to support a successful Children’s Chapel program
• Offer seasonal Wednesday evening programs
• Offer parents’ night out and other new children’s ministries

Strengthen our pastoral care:

• Call a part-time Congregational Care Coordinator
• Create new support ministries for elders and others needing care

Celebrate our building’s 150^th anniversary:

• Plan celebratory events that bring our congregation together and engage our neighbors

Take steps toward an overall plan for our property:

• Complete “Phase 1” of our property development process with our Imagine Incarnation conversations in fall 2022, giving us a documented description of our congregational consensus about our mission priorities for our campus
• Incorporate learnings from our Land Acknowledgments group into this process
• As appropriate, begin “Phase 2”: development of campus design possibilities with a planner

Continue to improve our stewardship of parish resources:

• Make a decision about possible closure of St. Andrew’s Mission (note: services at St. Andrew's have been on hiatus since the beginning of 2022)
• Build a 2023 budget that continues to move us toward relying on our own giving for as much of operating expenses as possible
• If possible, reduce Green Fund draw to 5-6%