Ministry Year 2019-20 Prayer & Action Goals
Our Year of Welcome
The Christian life is one of welcome. It begins with Christ welcoming us as family members, not servants. That welcome is reenacted every time we welcome each other, seeking ways to serve. That welcome is extended by us to those in need of a home coming, our local and global neighbors. And God gets all the glory.
Here’s how the Apostle Paul put it in Romans 15:7 - Therefore welcome one another as Christ has welcomed you, for the glory of God. Our Prayer and Action Goals this year center on this welcome.
WORD: We’ll study the book of Acts seeing how Christ welcomes us through the cross. This history of the early church shows us how to welcome and care for each other. It motivates us to be a welcoming people.
WORK: Sunday gatherings for worship, learning and serving are vital for the believer. Christ welcomes us to join him in building up his church.
WORSHIP: Gathered worship expresses what is in the heart - joy over being welcomed by Christ. It also shapes the heart - reminding us that being welcomed into Christ’s presence is our greatest joy. And it is all for the glory of God!
WITNESS-LOCAL: The One who welcomes us extends his welcome to all those around us. Our joy in being welcomed makes us a welcoming community.
WITNESS-GLOBAL: The One who welcomes, welcomes all peoples of the world. He calls us to take steps of friendship towards other cultures at home and abroad.
So, we welcome you to join in. Join us in prayer for these goals. Join us in action, taking the steps the Lord is calling us to take.
Tom Kenney
Senior Pastor
The Christian life is one of welcome. It begins with Christ welcoming us as family members, not servants. That welcome is reenacted every time we welcome each other, seeking ways to serve. That welcome is extended by us to those in need of a home coming, our local and global neighbors. And God gets all the glory.
Here’s how the Apostle Paul put it in Romans 15:7 - Therefore welcome one another as Christ has welcomed you, for the glory of God. Our Prayer and Action Goals this year center on this welcome.
WORD: We’ll study the book of Acts seeing how Christ welcomes us through the cross. This history of the early church shows us how to welcome and care for each other. It motivates us to be a welcoming people.
WORK: Sunday gatherings for worship, learning and serving are vital for the believer. Christ welcomes us to join him in building up his church.
WORSHIP: Gathered worship expresses what is in the heart - joy over being welcomed by Christ. It also shapes the heart - reminding us that being welcomed into Christ’s presence is our greatest joy. And it is all for the glory of God!
WITNESS-LOCAL: The One who welcomes us extends his welcome to all those around us. Our joy in being welcomed makes us a welcoming community.
WITNESS-GLOBAL: The One who welcomes, welcomes all peoples of the world. He calls us to take steps of friendship towards other cultures at home and abroad.
So, we welcome you to join in. Join us in prayer for these goals. Join us in action, taking the steps the Lord is calling us to take.
Tom Kenney
Senior Pastor
Word
I will engage with the book of Acts in order to renew my commitment to being the church by providing care for one another and reaching the world.
I will do this in one or more of the following ways:
So those who received his word were baptized, and there were added that day about three thousand souls. And they devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers. And awe came upon every soul, and many wonders and signs were being done through the apostles. - Acts 2:41-43
I will do this in one or more of the following ways:
- Read and discuss Acts with others
- Watch the Bible Project’s videos on Acts (thebibleproject.com/explore/acts/)
- Learn how to share a story from Acts with others in my everyday life
- Participate in a Core Discipleship course related to issues in Acts
So those who received his word were baptized, and there were added that day about three thousand souls. And they devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers. And awe came upon every soul, and many wonders and signs were being done through the apostles. - Acts 2:41-43
Work
I will use my S.H.A.P.E. to welcome and serve others on Sunday mornings and throughout the week.1
I will do this in one of more of the following ways:
1- The S.H.A.P.E. Assessment is a tool that will help you better understand the unique gifts, passions, and experiences that God has given you so that you can more fully use them to know His joy and change His world.
And all who believed were together and had all things in common. And they were selling their possessions and belongings and distributing the proceeds to all, as any had need. And day by day, attending the temple together and breaking bread in their homes, they received their food with glad and generous hearts, praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to their number day by day those who were being saved. - Acts 2:44-47
I will do this in one of more of the following ways:
- Use the S.H.A.P.E. Assessment Booklet (pccyorktown.com/forms--documents) to discover how God has equipped me to serve and welcome
- Serve in a Core Sunday morning ministry (KidzMin, Welcome Team or Ushers) to help create a welcoming environment
- Serve a fellow PCCer from a different age and stage of life (college students, widows, elderly, young families, handicapped, economically disadvantaged, singles)
1- The S.H.A.P.E. Assessment is a tool that will help you better understand the unique gifts, passions, and experiences that God has given you so that you can more fully use them to know His joy and change His world.
And all who believed were together and had all things in common. And they were selling their possessions and belongings and distributing the proceeds to all, as any had need. And day by day, attending the temple together and breaking bread in their homes, they received their food with glad and generous hearts, praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to their number day by day those who were being saved. - Acts 2:44-47
Worship
I will grow in my understanding of how our gathered worship on Sundays fuels our scattered worship throughout the week.
I will do this in one or more of the following ways:
While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.” Then after fasting and praying they laid their hands on them and sent them off. - Acts 13:2-3
I will do this in one or more of the following ways:
- Read and discuss the book Sing with others
- Identify and try out new ways to remember God’s work and rest in His love on Sundays
- Participate in a highly practical course on reclaiming Sabbath worship
- Participate in the Beyond These Walls effort with an emphasis on how God uses our gathered worship to shape hearts
While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.” Then after fasting and praying they laid their hands on them and sent them off. - Acts 13:2-3
Witness
Locally: I will welcome others to know and enjoy God.
I will do this in one or more of the following ways:
And every day, in the temple and from house to house, they did not cease teaching and preaching that the Christ is Jesus. - Acts 5:42
Globally: I will welcome the nations to know and enjoy God by taking steps of friendship toward other cultures.
I will do this in one or more of the following ways:
2 - To set up a video chat, reach out to the following contacts: Central Asia (Mabel Kenney); Japan (Bob Campbell); Aweer of Coastal Kenya (Mike Mynes & Joy Elliot) & East Asia (Robert & Janet Schutt).
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth. - Acts 1:8
I will do this in one or more of the following ways:
- Invite friends to join in learning, worshiping, or serving alongside me and my spiritual family at PCC
- Attend an Evangelism: Tips and Tools lunch that will help me introduce others to Jesus
- Host a social event that mixes believing and unchurched people and enables strangers to become acquaintances and acquaintances to become friends
- Befriend someone from a different culture
And every day, in the temple and from house to house, they did not cease teaching and preaching that the Christ is Jesus. - Acts 5:42
Globally: I will welcome the nations to know and enjoy God by taking steps of friendship toward other cultures.
I will do this in one or more of the following ways:
- Learn about and pray for one of PCC's strategic unreached people groups
- Meet and serve a new friend through F.O.R. (our Friends of Refugees ministry)
- Serve a Global Ministry Partner by helping one of their local contacts practice English through video chats online
- Participate in 100 Cups of Tea during our February Global Ministry Conference
2 - To set up a video chat, reach out to the following contacts: Central Asia (Mabel Kenney); Japan (Bob Campbell); Aweer of Coastal Kenya (Mike Mynes & Joy Elliot) & East Asia (Robert & Janet Schutt).
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth. - Acts 1:8
Why Have Goals?
Paul makes it clear in 2 Thessalonians 1:11-12 that churches will have “good purposes” — they will have goals. And they will own them — “good purposes of yours.” These purposes are linked to action which is “prompted by your faith.” They are goals that can only come about as God’s people identify what He is calling them to strive for and trust Him to fulfill.
At the Chapel our team of elders leads by carefully and prayerfully setting goals. When you commit to taking their leadership seriously, God promises you some “advantage:”
Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have to give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you. - Hebrews 13:17
Our annual Prayer & Action Goals are just that. They call us to pray for the purposes God puts on our hearts. They call us to act in faith on those purposes. When each of us commits to exploring ways to advance our goals, the results are amazing.
Our goals don’t describe everything we will do in the coming year. Rather they identify areas that are in some way broken and need to be fixed or they are areas in which God is on the move and He would have us build upon what He is doing.
Contact a staff member, elder or ministry leader for help in pursuing any of the goals. The office can provide contact information.
At the Chapel our team of elders leads by carefully and prayerfully setting goals. When you commit to taking their leadership seriously, God promises you some “advantage:”
Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have to give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you. - Hebrews 13:17
Our annual Prayer & Action Goals are just that. They call us to pray for the purposes God puts on our hearts. They call us to act in faith on those purposes. When each of us commits to exploring ways to advance our goals, the results are amazing.
Our goals don’t describe everything we will do in the coming year. Rather they identify areas that are in some way broken and need to be fixed or they are areas in which God is on the move and He would have us build upon what He is doing.
Contact a staff member, elder or ministry leader for help in pursuing any of the goals. The office can provide contact information.
