April 6th Meeting notes

After tons of great discussion on many topics, here are the major takeaways from the meeting...

In an effort to focus our efforts on a smaller number of things we agreed to prioritize some of the many great ideas we've all been discussing. The items below are what we'll focus on in the near term...

• Drama - We all feel that many opportunities exist to use drama/performance arts to further engage kids. There are opportunities to use this in weekend services and in special event and family ministry events as well. As a first step, Dave will arrange a meeting with Dave Huthmacher, Dinese, and the pre-school team members to share vision, discuss ideas, opportunities, and next steps. Also, Dave and Dinese will arrange a meeting with others that have participated in, or have expressed an interest in participating in River City Studios and other Childrens' theatrics, to do the vision sharing, and to begin planning the June River City Studios Family Event. We'll include naming the event as part of that agenda.
• Family Ministry is a theme that we'll continue building. The first big event in that theme is the Johnny Rodgers event. We have a special opportunity to engage and teach families and should strive to make the very most of it. Team members agreed to challenge themselves to find at least one family that wasn't already planning to attend and encourage them to come. Also, many great ideas were discussed about making that a WOW night. One of those was that we could launch the 3000 hours tagline/theme. I'll create a seperate post for the team to collect ideas and further plan that event.
• ServeFest - We had lots of great discussion on how to build on the community service initiatives that Greg has propoted in "Big church" with the kids. I'll create a seperate post to collect and share those ideas. Steph and Lisa took action items to talk to folks about the car wash event. Jamie will be working with Michelle D. on communications.
• 9 week summer curriculum - we discussed taking 9 weeks off of Kidmo to change things up a little and to try some new things. Again, I'll creat another post to continue that discussion.

We agreed that Fall might be a good time to look again at how to involve children in serving on the weekends. And, while Dinese has some responsibilities for the August Jackson Park event, it's really being handled by another group and shouldn't require much attention from our team.

The next meeting will be at 6:30 on May 3. In addition to discussing progress on our action items, we'll discuss the success and lessons learned from the Johnny Rodgers event.

Did I miss anything?