Interesting web page has appeared at www.united-church.ca called "Congregational Sel Assessment" It is a list of questions which a congregation can use to evaluate itself. While interesting, the assumptions behind the questions are even more interesting. You can see all the questions here:
I hope you don't mind me sharing some good news here, but I am just feeling really hopeful right now.
Today, our church had a congregational meeting.
We voted overwhelmingly in favour of an accessability project, which includes a LUA elevator. The project would be done this summer. It is conditional on a couple of items, though there is indicationthat those conditions will come forward...(well, as some of them were conditional on congregation approval).
A Lay Pastoral Minister was called to a church. On the first Sunday this comment was made to a group of people. "Oh it will be fine over the summer but when the intellectuals ( 3 people) come back in the fall, it will be another story. They will critique and will speak up and there will be trouble."
