Holy Grounds Planning Meeting

Hello friends!

I’ve been talking to a handful of you about pulling together some time to talk about what we want Holy Grounds to look like moving forward. I’ve volunteered to pull together a few meetings (I’m thinking once a month for the summer) to talk about some specific things we need to make decisions on.

I would like to do the first of these meetings on Sunday, June 7 from 4:30 – 5:30 pm. Here are the things I’d like to get your input/feedback on and I thought it might be helpful if you could think about it ahead of time. If you have thoughts you’d like to contribute to the discussion, but can’t make the meeting, feel free to shoot me an email (sreinitz@hotmail.com).

There are two agenda items:
1. Schedule & dinner plans – There are some of us who think it would be helpful to have a slightly more concrete start and end time for worship on Sunday evenings, in order to be respectful of people’s time and allow those with children and other responsibilities to plan accordingly and join us. We want to do this in a way, however, that doesn’t jeopardize our community-building focus or keep us from engaging with what the Spirit may be leading us to do in a given evening. It has also been suggested that we do dinner together at Holy Grounds instead of going out afterwards. This is a less expensive option but still allows us to eat with one another. The question is how and when to do it – before or after worship, changing worship time to incorporate this, etc. I’d love to know what different people think and come away with a recommendation.
2. Focus for the summer – We also need to decide what we want to focus on for the summer as a community and then decide how to divide up leading worship (similar to the grief focus we developed over Lent). If there is a topic or series of topics that you’d like to see us grapple with together, please come and let us know.

We hope to focus on several other issues in future meetings, including our relationship with the morning service community, supporting Holy Grounds financially, possibly incorporating a liturgy of some sort into our worship, etc. If there are other discussions you’d like to see us have, let me know and I will add it to the list. Thank you all!