Does Your Regional Body Have A Vision Statement?
We, as congregations, are often asked to draft both mission and vision statements.
Out of curiosity, we started researching vision statements and visited our own regional body web site to see what their vision for their work might be.
There is a menu navigation button that says Mission/Vision. Click!
There is a Mission Statement, an abbreviated version of Ephesians 4:11-13.
“Activated by the gifts of the Holy Spirit,
we equip the saints and congregations
for the work of ministry,
for building up the Body of Christ.”
We have seen only the opposite of that at work in East Falls. But then they didn’t include the next verse! “Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of people in their deceitful scheming.” Or the rest of that chapter.
But let’s move on! We’re looking for vision statements.
Where’s the Vision Statement? There is none posted. What is the Synod’s vision for its many neighborhood churches?