2016 - 2017 Ministry Plan
Each year our congregation creates a Ministry Plan to guide our work. This year, our Ministry Plan has a theme: Prayer and Blessing. This theme is woven into much of what we will be doing in the four areas that emerged as congregational priorities during our 2014 Discernment Process. These four areas are:
- Reaching younger populations
- Ministering beyond the walls of Broadway
- Embracing diversity
- Balancing innovation and tradition.
Our latest plans are for fall 2016 until fall 2017. To see the details of the ministry plans in each of our main ministry program areas, click on the links below. There are also links to give you more information on how we invest missions giving and a link to our annual budget.
Details are also available for
The written report of our Discernment Team
Where do we give our missions dollars
Priority One, Reaching Younger Populations
(highlights within the plan):
Convene a summit focused on younger members in order to dream about future ministry possibilities. This will take place early in 2016, with a goal of 30 in attendance and two new groups forming out of this meeting.
Form two new small groups or Sunday School classes geared around younger populations (Fall 2016).
Explore adding an additional elementary age or middle school option to Creative Arts Summer Camp.
Strengthen Children’s Choir through recruitment, communication, and reaching out to our community.
Offer three parent’s day/night outs at least four hours open to our community.
Youth will host a “Parents Shopping Day” around Christmas to spend time with the younger children in the church and will add a Senior Class Fall Retreat.
Among things we will do to maintain a healthy balance:
Continue VBS, Creative Arts Camp, and the enhancement of the curriculum plans made by the Children’s Committee.
Convene a Senior Adult ministry summit in early 2016.
Explore ways to minister to the “Sandwich Generation,” such as seminars on caring for aging parents.
Priority Two: Ministering outside the walls of the church
Congregational
Some of our ministries are far away, others close to home. Among those affecting our immediate community:
Bereavement meals, which often minister to nearby family members who are not part of Broadway
Wedding ministry to couples beyond Broadway
Caring for Aging Parents seminars, open to the community
Our partnership with Chenoweth Elementary
Missions Yard sale, which brings in people from the community, and exposes them to the Ministry Partner the Yard Sale fund goes to support
Our local benevolence offering, which serves people in our community
The free use of our building for
The city of Druid Hills council
Community meetings and elections
Groups such as Habitat for Humanity, Hearts to Hands knitters, and Norton Hospital's Christmas gift distribution.
Sunday School Teacher Roundtable – focused on a challenge to each class to do a Hands On Project to serve in our community.
Summer of Service 2.0 – Continuation of the Summer Mission Selfie Board with an extension into July. Goal of having every small group in the church (including Sunday School) do some sort of Hands On project during the summer.
Music & Worship
Youth Choir Concerts within our community
Jubilate Community Concerts
Children & Families
Monthly hands-on mission projects
At least three projects will be across ministry areas with youth, older adults, etc.
Youth
Quarterly experience that benefits someone outside of Broadway Baptist.
Serve among the Roma people in Kosice, Slovakia, in July of 2016.
Balance
Keeping worship strong so that we can be empowered spiritually to be ambassadors of the gospel.
Provide congregational care within the congregation. This is done by our pastors, deacons, and other groups, such as our flower ministry, grief ministry, and our yahrzeit candle distribution.
- We will continue our partnerships with Kentucky Baptist Fellowship, Chenoweth Elementary, Habitat Baptist House, the West End School, Choices Inc., the Family Scholar House, and Americana
PRIORITY Three: GREATER DIVERSITY
Congregational
Broadway will worship with St Stephen Church on May 15, Pentecost Sunday.
- We will continue fostering and celebrating the existing diversity within Broadway.
Our Families & Children ministry
Will host one mission project with children of our partner African-American churches.
Will invite a small number of children and chaperones from one of these churches to join our children on a Passport trip this summer.
Youth
Will attend a worship service focused on the life and teachings of MLK, Jr.
Will have 2 lessons focused on learning about other world religions during the year.
Music & Worship
The chancel choir will sing at St Stephen on Pentecost Sunday.
Balance of Tradition and Inspiration
Continuing events focused on intergenerational diversity within Broadway.
Continue supporting the West End School and Habitat for Humanity.
We will continue Civil Discourse sessions to engender diverse views within Broadway on current topics.
We will offer a sermon series on Baptist distinctives.
A look Back to 2016
For a review of our previous 2016 Ministry plan please click the links below.