Making a Difference
for OSC in `98

• Provide a gathering at fellowship hour for discussing the sermon.

• Find new ways to get our message across to the external community.

• Strengthen our sense of interconnectedness with the surrounding community by coordinating programs with other churches.

• Tape services for use by membership and the community.

• Find ways to "go on the air" with services and programs.

• Use our tradition of intellectual leadership by sponsoring forums on religious issues.

• Promote such activities as joint choral festivals, pulpit exchanges and mission projects with other churches.

• Encourage each fellowship group to include a service component in its activities.

• Survey external resources to determine what is available to augment paid and lay leadership by contacting local seminaries and divinity schools, tapping UCC resources, preparing and maintaining a list of resources, and learning from local churches about their outreach programs and their efforts to diversify their memberships.

• Building Community-- offering opportunities for participation in the ministry of our church, by offering solace and help in moments of personal distress, and by sharing the joy at times of personal celebration.

• Use fellowship hour to welcome visitors more effectively and to use the opportunity to educate members about church organizations.

• Enable members to meet across interest and generational lines an to participate in meeting the needs of fellow members.

• Update the materials in the Gordon Library.

• Host social events that involve the entire family and explore opportunities for family camps and retreats.