Ministry Map

Our ministry team and pastoral care team got together and looked at all of the ministry's at the Freeway and they are listed below on this chart. For more information as to what they mean you can click on the logo on the right marked "Lifeplan" We will also be discussing this further during our congregational dream session in January. 

Enjoy.

Ministry Map Key:

1.       Lifeplan,    2.       Pennies for peace (fundraising for kids in Kenya),  
 3.       skype calls to Kenya ,
4.       beads n string – kids jewelry making, fundraising for kids in Kenya,
5.       recycling collection (fundraising for kids in Kenya),  6.       sponsoring ICCM school, 
7.       prayer chain, 8.       prayer meeting, 9.       How one man changed the world (bible study), 
10.   College and careers bible study, 11.   Women’s bible study,  12.   Ladies events,  
13.   Grace Channels bible study, 14.   Spiritual gifts retreat,  15.   French Bible Study,  
16.   Youth class,  17.   Youth events,   18.   Plan to protect,   19.   Nursery,  20.   Preschool,   
21.   Kids church, 22.   Hall Monitor,  23.   Power point,  24.   Sound,  25.   Set up,  
26.   Worship,  27.   Youth band,  28.   Preaching Team,  
29.   Preaching Ministry on Sundays,   30.   Children’s moments / teaching time,  
31.   Sponsoring ICCM children,  32.   Mission moments,  
33.   Thursday Worship practices,  34.   Delegate updates,  
35.   Sponsorship for John and Oliver,  36.   Food share,  37.   Soul Care,  
38.   Compassion Fund,   39.   Meal Ministry,  40.   Hospital Visitation,  41.   Bulletin,  
42.   FYI,  43.   Friendship Sundays,  44.   Fellowship Team: potlucks,  45.    games night,  
46.   swimming pool party,  47.   Canada Day party,  48.   Christmas Banquet,  
49.   Christmas children’s program,  50.   Trick or Eat,  51.   Alpha Dinner (UOIT),  
52.   Ministerial candidates (MEGAP),  53.   SCOD (Study committee on doctrine),  
54.   MEGAP,  55.   Pancakes with the pastor,  
56.   Christmas Day potluck and games night,  57.   Baptisms,  58.   Membership,  
59.   Welcome packages,  60.   Board / Governance,  61.   Shoe boxes,  
62.   Master schedule,  63.   Children’s min appreciation,  64.   Pastoral visits,  
65.   Pastoral mentorship visitation, 66.   Visitor training Course,  67.   Signs,  
68.   Website / facebook page,  69.   Flyer, door to door,  70.   Pastor blog,  
71.   Men’s group

The Healthy Church

Hello Everyone,


Attached is a link from the Free Methodist Church in Canada regarding healthy churches and what they look like.


As we continue our journey with the LifePlan and as we have been talking about being a Missional Church it's important to remember the need for the Freeway to be a healthy church first in order for it to become a Missional church. If we are an unhealthy church we will fail to be a Missional church because we will be bringing people new to the faith into an unhealthy situation. As we say with our mission statement The Freeway seeks to be a safe place for the journey. Here is an interesting video that will help us to understand our denomination better and how we as a denomination are striving to build healthy churches within the reach of everyone.


Enjoy

The Freeway's Demographics

As part of the LifePlan process, the LifePlan team completed our church demographics as a way to better understand who we are as a congregation. The results were quite interesting.

Membership

Total Membership:                    56 people
New Members within the last 5 years: 25 people

Average Attendance

Sunday Morning:              50 people
Discipleship Ministries:     5 people
Christian Education Classes: 6 people
Small groups:                24 people

Family Characteristics

Number of families: 36
             Male    Female    Total
Single:       4         2        6
Married:      21       20        41

Age Distribution of The Freeway

             Male    Female    Total
Age 0-4       5        4         9
Age 5-14      6        9         15
Age 15-19     2        5         7
Age 20-24     2        4         6
Age 25-44     18       18        36
Age 45-54     3        2         5
Age 55-64     5        4         9
Age 65-74     2        2         4
Age 75-84     1        1         2

Congregational Givings (approximate)

Number of households:                    36
Last year's total givings:               $75,114.92
Average givings per household            $2086.53
Average giving percentage per household: 3.48%

The Missional Church

Pastor Dale forwarded this short video about what a Missional church should look like. The video describes the difference between an Attractional church and a Missional church. The Attractional church attracts people to their church. The Missional church sends their people out to the community to BE the church. The Missional church believes that every believer embodies the life of the church. The Bethel churches slogan is that they are gathered and scattered. They gather on Sunday morning and then scatter their people out into the community during the week. As we proceed with the lifeplan we need to understand what our lifeplan is and HOW we will live it out. This is the key to the whole lifeplan. We need to understand how we will put our lifeplan into action. We all need to BE the church. Please click on the link below to view this short video and leave your comments.

Why do the Lifeplan?

What is it?   

The “Life Plan” is a congregationally-led strategic planning process that helps a church prayerfully explore ministry opportunities in the community around it and then develop a strategic ministry plan accordingly. 


Why Do it? 

The FMCiC encourages all its churches to do Life Plan on a regular basis.   At regular intervals, healthy congregations take time to prayerfully consider how things are going in its ministry, and to ask questions like, “Are there changes that we need to make to become more effective?” “Are there areas we are overlooking where we could be involved in helping and reaching people in our neighbourhood and beyond?” 



Who is Leading it?

 In June, the Official Board asked Dave Moriarity to head up the Life Plan for us at the FreeWay, and to put together a Life-Plan team that can lead our congregation through this strategic-planning process.   Our Life Plan Team had its first meeting on Tuesday, September 18.  The 2012 Life Plan Team consists of:  Dave Moriarity, Tyler Lane, Kim Kacaba, Dustin Kacaba, Cathy Harris, Rob Clements, and Andrew Moriarity.



How Can I Get Involved?

1) There will be a number of opportunities for direct participation as the process unfolds (congregational visioning sessions and feedback meetings, etc.).   Please plan to participate in these as they come up.

 2) Please commit to pray for our Life-Plan team on a regular basis.  Pray for camaraderie on the team, clarity, insight, discernment, energy and joy as they do their work.

3)  Complete the Congregational Survey.  Share your thoughts about where the FreeWay’s at by taking the Life-Plan opinion survey at: www.surveymonkey.com/s/freewaylifeplan

4) Track with the Life-Plan. Please continue to follow us on this blog for updates and to use it as an open forum where we can discuss the process together. We want to hear from you about everything, the good, the bad and the ugly. This is a learning process for us and we plan to do it every 2 years. The more we learn from it this time the more effectively we can do it next time.

Thank you for your support in this process.

Welcome to the Construction Zone

Welcome to the Construction Zone. The Freeway starting out on a strategic planning process called the lifeplan. Lifeplan is a congregationally led process for seeking out God's will for the ministry of the Freeway. We would like to invite you as a member of our family to use this blog to follow us with this process.

We are hoping that this will be an online forum for dialogue about the lifeplan  process.  Please feel free to leave your comments.