Pastor Martha March 2024 Retreat with OSCS on March 2
On Saturday March 2, OSLC church council members, OSCS board members, and members of the joint OSCS/OSLC property committee and will be gathering for an all-day retreat, facilitated in part by Sara Joy Proppe, a development consultant who worked with Calvary Lutheran on their project. We hope to make some key decisions about the direction we are heading for reimagining our campus, addressing questions including: what will the essential elements be, how will we phase development of different parcels on campus, what will our decision-making structure be, and when will we hire a development consultant. The OSLC church council members attending the retreat include: Allyson Green, Paula Keller, Tal Anderson, Aneesa Parks, Mike Troutman, and both pastors. OSLC members who serve on the joint property committee include: Rico Morales, David Scheie, Tal Anderson, Renate Willer (though she is wearing her OSCS operations manager hat), and myself. Many OSLC members have contributed significant work to get us to this point, including members of the OSLC/OSCS joint property committee and leaders in the OSLC property study work group that began in January and has continued through February in various subgroups. We have taken congregational and neighborhood input in many forms over the last couple of years. All of these discerning conversations and research work have contributed to strong preparation for a positive March 2 retreat. One piece we are bringing to the March 2 retreat is a list of our top key objectives for our reimagined property campus. The January property development study group discerned these goals as our top 4:
On Sunday March 17, we will have a special 30 minute worship service – which will include the baptism of Sebastian Lau! – followed by time for the whole congregation to receive a thorough update from Pastor Martha, Mike Huffman and other leaders about where we are at with our property project. We will share about the outcomes of the retreat on March 2 and invite your questions and input towards next steps. Worship will be from 10:30 – 11am, with the property update from 11am – noon. We will move to Zoom for the property update; a link will be sent out in the Sunday morning email on March 17. Invitation for Your Input by March 15 – Via Google Form, and/or Boards in Narthex Between now and March 15, please give your input about what kind of spaces we need for congregational ministries in the coming 25+ years. You can fill out our Google Form by using this link. Or, you can add your thoughts at church – you will find interactive bulletin boards set up for you to engage and mark up with your opinions and wonderings. They have already been up for a couple of weeks – thanks to everyone who has already weighed in! We’d love to hear from as many folks as possible. We will share back what we heard at the March 17 congregational property update. Property Project Blog is coming (you are reading it right now :-)) We are working on creating a blog dedicated to our property project on our website, so that any time you feel like you need more information on our property project with OSCS, you can go there and catch up on all the news. That’s a lot. And – it’s exciting that things are moving along! Please reach out with any questions to myself or to members of the joint property committee (David Scheie, Tal Anderson, Rico Morales, Renate Willer).
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