2016 Leadership Retreat

Administrative Council met for their Annual Leadership Retreat this past weekend. It was a tremendous event filled with purposeful prayer, faithful conversations, and an opportunity to continue to dream big dreams!

We celebrated the good things that happened last year, set goals (short term, long term, and on-going) to govern our work for the coming year, and felt the Spirit moving in us and through us in our holy time together!

Here are "The Three Things" we want you to know from that Leadership Retreat...followed by some pictures of the day!

1) Dream Big!
In 2015 we put the Dream Fund to wonderful use in the life of the church, and in 2016 we want to build on that momentum. We are going to "Live the Dream!" and "Keep Dreaming!" and "Dream Big!" in the coming year. The Administrative Council is looking forward to cultivating big ideas for our congregation as we faithfully discern God's dreams for us in the coming year.

2) A Full Slate!
What a blessing to have every leadership position in the life of the church filled! Please keep Administrative Council (and all of our various Ministry Teams) in your prayers as they take on the good work before us.

3) The Church of Yes...And!
In reviewing our Hope Partnership Best Practices we heard once again the longstanding refrain that we want FCC Scottsdale to be the "The Church of Yes!" We want to be a place that is filled with the overwhelming affirmation of God's love! We want to celebrate new ideas and support innovation. Instead of simply defaulting "No" for any new project or opportunity we want to be able to say "Yes!" In fact, we want to go a step further. Improv comedy troops talk about "Yes...and". It is the strategy of not only agreeing with what your partner offers, but building on it to make it better. We not only affirm new ideas, but we add our own piece to the growing tableau in order to make something even richer and more rewarding.