1. Devotion – Leadership notes from Mac Brunson
a. Good habits leaders need to build:
i. Humility – know strengths and weaknesses, be quick to give credit
ii. Purity
iii. Moral excellence
iv. Servanthood
v. Compassion
vi. Honesty and integrity
vii. Endurance
viii. Growth in leadership
b. What leaders should be watching out for:
i. Isolation
ii. Bitterness
iii. Coasting
iv. The standard
2. Knuckles
3. Sharper Training – Hannah
a. “Focused Prayer”
4. 99 Project presentation – Hunter
a. See attached handout for more information
5. Department updates
a. Guest Services
i. New volunteers continuing to come in.
ii. Push people to Guest Services for Easter volunteer teams.
iii. Building new teams.
iv. Working on more informational material for Sunday mornings.
v. Starting a series of training videos and resources for new volunteers.
b. Connections
i. Solidifying the next step class structure (first time guests to joining members) in the next strategic team meeting.
ii. Grace Church in Bonifay – joining the FBC. Launching on Easter Sunday this year.
c. Dean
i. Off this Sunday
ii. Bryant Wright preaching April 2.
d. Financial Administration
i. Will be sharing print outs of budget input and requests for staff to edit and re-submit.
e. Music
i. Building band members
f. Communications
i. Finishing up Easter graphics and materials
ii. Recruiting new communications & creative volunteers
iii. Looking ahead to brand guidelines and standards – next project after Easter
g. Discipleship
i. City Groups have reached the halfway mark in the semester
ii. Planning for summer
iii. Prayer exercise for Easter – prayer triplets
iv. Care – looking for new marriage mentors for the marriage enrichment team, which will launch with a marriage event in the fall.
v. Building a team for baptisms – Sunday support, follow up, etc.
h. Youth
i. Childish series – looking at the story of the Prodigal Son and throwing a luau for this week.
ii. No Youth next week – Spring Break
iii. Hunter is out Sunday-Wednesday in New Orleans for mission trip with Connect Church – Ryan Rice.
iv. 25/175 registered for summer camp.
v. Sam building the music and production teams, training band members.
i. College
i. Next service is 3/27. Rolling out The 99 Project during service.
j. KiDS
i. Child dedications again on Mother’s Day.
ii. Currently in Deuteronomy with Gospel Project.
iii. 411 unique children came through in February
k. Production
i. Planning set for Easter
6. Other business
a. Please be talking to teams about baptism and walking with people who may want to/need to get baptized. Resources and processes are available on the website.
b. All questions about the Easter volunteer sign up form should be directed to Zach.
c. Shared idea about an intro to serving event/meeting for people who want to serve at City Church in any area.
7. Closing prayer