goals
At the end of 2009, goals were established for each of the evening congregations, in consultation with the Connect and ministry leaders. The goals for 2010 are:
Saturday Night by the Bridge
- Deeper relationships: Every member of Sat night church committed to eagerly & expectantly attending regularly, as well as showing hospitality in our homes.
- Increased Bible knowledge: A commitment to dig deeper into God’s word personally (through daily bible reading), in small groups (with a commitment to 1:1) and in larger gathering (Connect groups & church). A goal to read the Bible in a year! (download the Bible reading plan)
- Prayerfulness: A commitment to greater dependence on God in prayer, with a aim of 80% of Sat night church in a prayer triplet or 1:1 discipleship relationship.
- Church family: A richer diversity in our church family demographics, with a goal of increasing the number of families and older members.
Sundays at 5pm
- For everyone to grow in their humility before, love of and joy in Jesus.
- Community: Deeper fellowship at 5pm through attendance, serving, genuine care & increased number of people in Connect Group (80% goal?)
- Identity: Clear direction, purpose & unity for 5pm.
- Generosity/mission: Committed to sending people out to serve, with a goal of 2 members of 5pm into mission – either within Australia or overseas.
Sundays at 6.45pm
- Committed to gathering: Every member of 6.45pm committed to eagerly & expectantly attending regularly, with a goal of attending at least 80% of Sundays.
- Increased Bible knowledge: A commitment to dig deeper into God’s word personally (through daily bible reading), in small groups (with a commitment to 1:1) and in larger gathering (Connect groups & church). A goal to read the Bible in a year! (download the Bible reading plan)
- Being mission minded: Every member of 6.45pm being committed to participate in at least one missional activity during 2010.
- Leadership training: 20 new, committed, long-term leaders trained up by the end of 2010.
Bible reading plan
You will notice that for some services, one of the goals is to read the whole Bible in a year! If you would like to join us in this aim, please feel free to use this Bible reading scheme (download). ou can also read along on your mobile phone - just visit i.cbtb.org.au, and you will see details and links to the day’s readings.
We will read the OT and gospels once, and the NT epistles twice in the year. Please feel free to read this by yourself, or you may wish to join with others to discuss regularly (e.g. end of each month). We pray this will help you love God more as you spend more time in his Word.
