Our One Legacy teams give rotating monthly updates. Our update for this month is from the Reach team!

The Reach team's vision statement: We will effectively and strategically share the Gospel with our Jerusalem (Mentor and Lake County), Judea (Ohio), Samaria (the USA), and the uttermost parts of our world.

Here are our Reach Team goals for 2019 and our progress:

Goal #1

Evaluate the effectiveness of our current local corporate outreaches and, if necessary, suggest ways to modify, improve, or redirect these outreaches.

Reach team members Stephen Anderson, Jim Dahlhausen, Eric Hixson, and Rick Rumora have contacted the overseers of each corporate event and gotten their feedback. Each event was reviewed by asking these five questions:

• Is the Gospel message clearly presented at this corporate event, and how?
• Is this corporate event helping to establish relationships?
• Are there any aspects of this event that detract from a clear Gospel presentation?
• Are we limited in resources to effectively carry out this evangelistic effort? For example, are we limited in funds, personnel, safety, or space and facilities?
• What discipling or spiritual training is offered to those who are participating in this outreach?

The members of the Reach team will present their findings to the leaders of these outreaches with the goal of refining our efforts to reflect our church’s mission statement.

Goal #2

Continue to assist Arch Ministries staff with regularly updating the current membership roster, membership screening, and other infrastructure needs.

This year Jude Leary has joined our Reach Team, and she will help to provide helpful information given her role in Arch Ministries. In September, we connected with multiple pastors here at Grace through disciple-making workshops. We are finding that these workshops serve as a way of connecting and partnering with other local churches. Please pray that God would give wisdom to our church leadership as God seems to be broadening our disciple-making influence through these venues. Also pray for the ARCH National Pastors’ Fellowship in January 2020. Over 40 members of Grace take part in serving pastors from around the country and the world as they meet in Florida.

Goal #3

Partner with the GCM Missions Committee to produce a summary tool of our current global missionary representation and suggest areas of the world where our missions support can be strengthened.

The Reach Team is working together with our Missions Committee as they help to present a map that identifies our supported missionaries and their locations, and by doing so we hope to provide assistance to the Missions Committee as they work to support more missionaries and have a Gospel presence in new areas. Daina Westman has been gathering information, and Nick Bair is developing a template for this tool. Much of this map is already completed, and we would like to include it along with a catalog of our supported missionaries for our church family to use as a prayer tool. Lord willing, this will be available by the end of 2019.

Please contact Pastor Mike Hixson with any questions.