On December 3, the Board of Directors met for our first meeting since the election of new members at the Associational Meeting in October.  Our meeting included prayer, orientation to the board, business and a sharing of our hopes and dreams for the Association.  We as a board have committed ourselves to being more available to the churches and to carrying forth the vision of Appreciative Inquiry and the unifying Spirit of God that was felt at our Annual Meeting. Our hopes and dreams reflect this commitment and I would like to share some of those dreams with you.

Hopes and Dreams for 2008

Engage all churches in Stewardship.

Get excited about telling the story.

Visit and connect to churches.

Create two programmed events this year to engage the Association in Worship, Education, Mission and Fellowship.

Improve communication by setting up an email notification system, keeping our website up to date and letting everyone know what is happening in our local churches.

Increase giving to the Association by $5000; increase the number of giving churches to 75% of all the churches in the Association.