This is what we were celebrating yesterday, having worked our way through Five Core Values over the last couple of months.

This morning I got out the sheets where people had listed their commitments, and on the whole I was encouraged.  Four out of five groups had completed the exercise - the fifth group comprised people who were suddenly far too busy to do so (I think that is telling, considering who was in that group!).  Anyway, 4 out of 5 is pretty good and here is what they came up with...

• Keeping the fellowship strong
• Mission - in every aspect
• Encourage
• Continue to pray for lunch club, and that some of the guests will one day come to a service
• Pray for our BMS links
• Pray for success in the new pub-based intitiative
• Pray for the church
• Pray for the local community
• Support at least one outreach event by bringing a friend
• Continue to exist for those outside
• Reach out to others
• Help others who are in need

Obviously any or almost all of these need some 'unpacking' and some work to turn from good intention to actual practice, but they feel like a step in the right direction.

After Easter things get a bit clumsy due to various specials, but we will be picking up something around BMS, HMF and CHASTE in the next three months, as well as our outreach Pentecost events.  Now all tha remains is to create some evalaution forms for the Five Core Values stuff, as I put a lot of work into generating study material that may or may not have been used/useful.