What will Hurstbourne Christian Church look like in five years?

What makes Hurstbourne Christian Church different?

What is God’s vision for Hurstbourne Christian Church and what will we do to become that Church?

Since January we have grappled with these questions. On the first Sunday of the year, I asked you what Hurstbourne Christian will look like in five years. What will our missions look like? What will our church look like? Those questions were the start of our journey.

Next, our entire church prayerfully answered a survey describing the vision each of us as individuals have for the church. We combined those answers into one complete document.

Then we took the collection of individual answers and formed a vision team, connecting all aspects of the Church into one body. This team continued together information by surveying the Hurstbourne neighborhood. We asked our neighbors what they thought of our church and what their community needed in a church. Some of their answers were shocking but truthful! The vision team spent many nights debating and discussing our mission and our vision, evenings spent prayerfully working to listen and discern God’s will.

After numerous hours the vision team developed a new vision, new mission, and a plan to make them a reality. Now it is time for you to celebrate the fruits of our labor: the plan to bring about a church that is ready for the roaring (20)20’s, a vision that keeps the heart of the church of the past but with a new energy that is ready for the future.

On September 11 we are celebrating our Vision Sunday and the whole church must be ready to support this vision! United we stand, divided we fall. Frankly, our vision is something that is impossible not to unite behind. It is a vision for a loving, biblically-based church, ready to make actionable change in the world!