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Our Mission
The mission of Holy Cross Episcopal Church is to worship, share, and exercise the servant ministry of our Lord Jesus Christ in the rich tradition of the Anglican Communion. We focus our servanthood ministry on the less fortunate and disenfranchised within the local and greater community. We place special emphasis on children, the elderly, the men and women of our Armed Forces and their families, and the incarcerated.
Our Vision
Our vision is to be known as an open and welcoming church serving the spiritual and secular needs of the community.
Our Values
Our values are grounded in our love of Jesus Christ as expressed in servanthood, stewardship, diversity, community, and courageous compassion.
Strategic Goals
- Share our faith by attracting new members and increasing attendance at our worship services.
- Serve our community by increasing our Social Justice Ministry programs.
- Foster our parish community by increasing the frequency and participation in Servanthood events.
- Recruit additional parishioners to participate in our worship service ministries.
- Continue our path to financial independence from the Diocese.
Specific Goals for 2011
Spiritual Development
- Recruit 1-3 new members for the Sunday music group.
- Increase our membership by 10%. (Evangelism)
- Recruit 2-4 new members for the worship group (acolytes, chalice bearers, readers and ushers).
- Recruit 2-4 new members for the worship support ministries (altar guild and flower guild).
- Conduct three concerts for the community.
Evangelism
- Conduct six Parent's Night Out events.
- Promote Holy Cross and our events with email marketing and advertisements in The Reader and other media 26 times.
- Feature the Holy Cross booth at two Chamber of Commerce events.
- Increase average Sunday attendance (ASA) by 10%.
Servanthood
- Have a friendship dinner kick-off event by the end of February. Have three get-togethers of each group, reshuffle names, and have three more.
- Have at least four fellowship gatherings, once each quarter.
- Participate in at least one Diocesan-wide family event.
Christian Education
- Purchase a children's education curriculum to have in place once there is a demand for such a program.
- Recruit 1-2 members of the congregation to become Sunday School teachers.
- Conduct nine meetings of the Faith Book Club.
- Plan 1-2 gatherings for the congregation to view and discuss films or speakers of spiritual or social significance.
Social Justice
- Deliver over 200 boxes of necessities (Birthday Bags) to Meals on Wheels.
- Deliver healthy food snacks to the Wounded Warrior Battalion 20 times during the year.
- Provide monetary, emotional, and spiritual support to one incarcerated woman through her release in 2011.
- Deliver 80 or more Easter baskets to families of deployed Marines.
- Initiate two new social justice projects.
Stewardship and Administration
- Increase pledge units from 31 to 35.
- Maintain our Mission Share Pledge to the Diocese at 20%.
- Reduce our request for Diocesan Investment from $30,000 to $25,000.
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