Strategy 

1. Improve our Offerings

• Church services – create reverent, relevant and participatory Christian experiences that engage people who come in with different experiences, theologies and expectations
• Spirit Space – provide spiritual nurture and education, with opportunities for Christian discipleship, inter-generational relationships, and community in the lives of children, youth, and their families, by employing paid staff and implementing “Spirit Space”, a child-centred approach
• Adult Education – provide adult education offerings that allow members and the wider community to explore spirituality, to think, and to grow

Owned by: Explore Spirituality Council

2. Communicate the Offerings to More People (both externally and internally)

• Create the Fairlawn Identity (logo, tagline and key messages that will “hook” people to experience our offerings)
  Owned by: Communications Council
• Develop the most efficient and effective Media that can carry this message (both externally and internally)
  Owned by: Communications Council
• Develop an Invitational Culture mainly by role modelling and encouraging others to follow.
  Owned by: Executive Council
• Expand Personal Individualized Invitations to our offerings to your friends and neighbours
  Owned by: Executive Council
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3. Welcome Them When They Come (both new and current congregants) 

Put together a Single Unified Team of Welcomers that will lead the way in helping us to be a truly welcoming congregation …
Remembering that nothing replaces the congregation doing this naturally.

Owned by: Congregational Engagement Manager
Working with the help of:

• Welcomers – Inside
• Welcomers – Outside
• Coffee Hour providers

The Fairlawn Call Reports

• The Fairlawn Call Plan: Bringing God’s Call To Life, Draft September 2014 — The motion to support the direction of the Fairlawn Call passed unanimously with one abstention, Oct. 5, 2014.
• Letter to the Congregation, September 2014
• The Congregational Meeting Minutes of May 25, 2014  – These minutes contain the minister`s message and the actual motion that was passed
• The Fairlawn Call Interim Report of May 14, 2014
• Presentation from the Chair of Executive Council, Derek Wishart, March 2014
• The Fairlawn Call Q & A

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Dialogue for Direction Reports

• • Dialogue for Direction on the new Constitution, February 2015
  • Dialogue for Direction on Communications, January 2015
  • Dialogue for Direction on Adult Education, September 2014
  • Dialogue for Direction on Governance Part 2, September 2014
  • Dialogue for Direction on M & P: Presentation, September 2014
  • Dialogue for Direction on M & P: Goals, September 2014

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Incorporating The Fairlawn Call into all we do
The concepts from The Fairlawn Call are now part of our new Constitution.

Org Chart
View Fairlawn’s Org Chart (2023 update pending).