Every church has a mission and a vision, whether they know it or not. A mission is why the organization exists and the vision is what they are trying to achieve. In this presentation to the Mt. Pleasant UMC community, we share the mission and vision that will create a partnership for ministry and growth.

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3. a covenant relationship between individuals
characterized by mutual cooperation and
responsibility, for the achievement of a
specific goal!
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Partnership

4. Large crowds were traveling with Jesus, and turning
to them he said: “If anyone comes to me and does
not hate father and mother, wife and children,
brothers and sisters—yes, even their own life—such
a person cannot be my disciple. And whoever does
not carry their cross and follow me cannot be my
disciple.
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5. “Suppose one of you wants to build a tower. Won’t
you first sit down and estimate the cost to see if you
have enough money to complete it? For if you lay
the foundation and are not able to finish it,
everyone who sees it will ridicule you, saying, ‘This
person began to build and wasn’t able to finish.’
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6. “Or suppose a king is about to go to war against
another king. Won’t he first sit down and consider
whether he is able with ten thousand men to
oppose the one coming against him with twenty
thousand? If he is not able, he will send a
delegation while the other is still a long way off and
will ask for terms of peace.In the same way, those
of you who do not give up everything you have
cannot be my disciples.
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7. “Salt is good, but if it loses its saltiness, how can it
be made salty again? It is fit neither for the soil nor
for the manure pile; it is thrown out.
“Whoever has ears to hear, let them hear.”
Luke 14:25:35
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[Our] church, and the story to which it is
accountable, has some very definite ideas about
the goal of life, the purpose of human existence.
[Our] worship is not just another narcotic in an
anesthetizing culture. Worship is our attempt to
listen to God [and learn our story].

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We begin with the assumption that many of us are
in pain today, drifting, unhappy, unfulfilled, not
because we have not tried to find pleasure,
direction, happiness and satisfaction, Lord knows
we’ve tried. We are miserable because we have
been looking for fulfillment in the wrong places,
fulfilling our hungers with cheap nourishments,
attempting to base our lives on the lies rather than
on the truth. We come to church empty and numb.

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Church is not just a place to go,
It’s who you become!

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We were created by God, Authority
We Believe

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We were created by God,
for a relationship with God,
Authority
Disciples
We Believe

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We were created by God,
for a relationship with God,
to live in eternity in God’s family!
Authority
Disciples
Mission
We Believe

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to Change Lives as disciples of Jesus.
Our Mission

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to Inspire others to follow Jesus,
to Intentionally Invest in become like Jesus,
to Impact the world as disciples of Jesus.
Our Mission

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Inspire
To Awaken the soul to the Majestic.

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Inspire- Awaken the Soul to the Majestic
These days you are considered a weirdo if you live
without a phone. Yet nobody cares if you live
without a reason to get up in the morning.
Anything wrong with that picture?

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Inspire- Awaken the Soul to the Majestic
“Everything exposed by the light becomes visible—and
everything that is illuminated becomes a light. This is why
it is said: “Wake up, sleeper, rise from the dead, and Christ
will shine on you.” (Ephesians 5:13-14)

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Inspire– Awaken the Soul to the Majestic
“Once the soul awakens, the search begins and you can
never go back. From then on, you are inflamed with a
special longing that will never again let you linger in the
lowlands of complacency and partial fulfillment. The
eternal makes you urgent. You are loath to let compromise
or the threat of danger hold you back from striving toward
the summit of fulfillment.” J. O’Donohue

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Inspire- Awaken the Soul to the Majestic
Celebration - Challenging – Practical
10% increase in avg. Worship attendance. (210->235)

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Inspire- Awaken the Soul to the Majestic
“In darkness there is no choice. It is light that enables us to
see the differences between things; and it is Christ who
gives us light.” C. T. Whitemell

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Invest
Awaken the Sleeping Giant that is the Church.

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Invest- Awaken the sleeping giant that is the Church!
“I have set you an example that you should do as I
have done for you.” John 13:15

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Invest- Awaken the sleeping giant that is the Church!
Discipleship means being willing to move on every level,
leaving the old life behind, following Jesus wherever he
may lead, sitting at his feet so to speak, taking in not only
what he says but who he is on the deepest level of our
being, allowing our lives to be reoriented and ourselves
(our deepest self) to be transformed. This is no small,
simple or superficial task.

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We Believe Growing People are Healthy people
We Believe You Can’t Do Life Alone.
Invest- Awaken the sleeping giant that is the Church!

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Invest- Awaken the sleeping giant that is the Church!
"Every time you make a choice, you are turning the central
part of you, the part of you that chooses, into something a
little different from what it was before. And, taking your
life as a whole, with all your innumerable choices, all your
life long you are slowly turning this central thing either into
a Heaven creature or into a hellish creature –

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Invest- Awaken the sleeping giant that is the Church!
either into a creature that is in harmony with God, and
with other creatures, and with itself, or else into one that is
in a state of war and hatred with God, and with its fellow
creatures and with itself. To be the one kind of creature is
Heaven: that is, it is joy, and peace, and knowledge, and
power. To be the other means madness, horror, idiocy,
rage, impotence, and eternal loneliness. Each of us at each
moment is progressing to the one state or the other."C S Lewis

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GOAL: 50% Partnership Connection
Giving increases 5%
Avg. SS Attendance increased 10%
2 NEW Covenant groups
Constantly Communicate
Legitimate Leadership
Invest- Awaken the sleeping giant that is the Church!

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Impact
Radically Unleash the Compassion of God

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Impact- Radically Unleash the Compassion of God!
It isn’t what we say or think that defines us,
but the mark we leave in the lives of others.

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“If you spend yourselves on behalf of the hungry
and satisfy the needs of the oppressed, then your
light will rise in the darkness, and your night will
become like the noonday.” Isa 58:10
Impact- Radically Unleash the Compassion of God!

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We Believe Found People, Find People
We Believe Saved People, Serve People.
Impact- Radically Unleash the Compassion of God!

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“In darkness there is no choice. It is light that
enables us to see the differences between things;
and it is Christ who gives us light.”
C. T. Whitemell
Impact- Radically Unleash the Compassion of God!

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What would be the impact of every Christian
sharing their story with one other person and
changing our church from a “caught” mentality to
“catching, coaching and sending” mentality?
“As the Father has sent me, so I send you.”
John 20:21
Impact- Radically Unleash the Compassion of God!

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Impact- Radically Unleash the Compassion of God!
GOAL: 100% Mission-Minded Teams
2 Conference Mission Projects
2 Regional Mission trips
2 Outreach Initiatives
Inviting Faith Conversations

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Flood Relief Crew
July 2015

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We Believe
We were created by God,
For a relationship with God,
To live in eternity with God’s family!
Walk for Life
10.18.15

39. To be a community so alive with
irresistible enthusiasm that can only
be explained by the presence of
Jesus!
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Our Vision