#	Hospitality/mentoring	Yes ü	Maybe	No ü	Comments
1.	Greeters. We are so “family” maybe we are not hospitable
2.	Don’t ask people to introduce themselves – perhaps greeters can collect names
3.	Interact outside of church: roaming dinners, service projects, Bible studies, card night, prayer time
4.	have coffee and treats before church starts more often --connect before worship
5.	name tags for everyone that we put on when we arrive & take off after (a group project?)
6.	Encourage people to bring their own mugs; blue mugs are for visitors who wish to be identified
7.	Mentoring could happen: anyone who wants to profess their faith could be matched up with some member (not necessarily a PC member) and they together could work on exploring profession and then together writing out a statement or story of faith

#	Preparing for worship	Yes ü	Maybe	No ü	Comments
8.	Announce the theme in advance for self-preparation;
9.	Create more of a sense of entering the worship space
10.	Place baptismal bowl at entrance to remember baptism. Now people just rush in and out.

#	Sermons	Yes ü	Maybe	No ü	Comments
11.	Would like more sermon continuity & understanding of congregation
12.	Appreciate variety of speakers
13.	keep someone available (pastor/pastoral committee) for times we need sensitivity
14.	invite youth to preach
15.	create a “preaching team”: meet as a group, study together on a passage or topic, adds richness, maintains continuity
16.	use the lectionary
17.	miss a profound exegesis of the Bible
18.	Sermons should be shorter.
19.	Can use a different model if no sermon-giver available
20.	Use some short video clips in service/sermons

#	Communal prayer	Yes ü	Maybe	No ü	Comments
21.	Shorter congregational prayers
22.	make significant prayer requests known to the prayer leader ahead of time – or put in prayer basket
23.	don’t need to rephrase everything that’s been said;
24.	More inclusion of unsaid prayers

#	Other offerings	Yes ü	Maybe	No ü	Comments
25.	Move “other offerings” to prayer time
26.	Ask specific people to respond or tell a related story
27.	Announce theme week ahead & via email
28.	Invite “questions” rather than fully formed “responses” – less intimidating

#	Technology	Yes ü	Maybe	No ü	Comments
29.	Identify skilled technical people who commit to technology setup and trouble-shooting
30.	Monitor sound from within the congregation

#	Liturgies	Yes ü	Maybe	No ü	Comments
31.	Sometimes liturgies don’t honor those with disabilities: “open our deaf ears” etc.
32.	Length is a problem – overload of good.
33.	have gotten away from biblical quotes – there’s value in imprinting those words on our memory.
34.	Collaborate in writing: liturgies don’t always speak truthfully, or are awkward.
35.	Use visual art/photos for meditation rather than decoration
36.	Put music notes on screen – we’re raising music illiterates
37.	Keep the special focus services in summer
38.	Do communion as a meal – at least sometimes (one of Fellowship’s early hopes)
39.	How much time should we spend putting services together?

#	More of this	Yes ü	Maybe	No ü	Comments
40.	More silence
41.	More creeds
42.	10 commandments; enabling us to live as people of God
43.	More drama, mime
44.	quality percussion instruments
45.	Planned spontaneity

#	Involvement	Yes ü	Maybe	No ü	Comments
46.	Let small groups &/or families plan and do liturgies, sermons
47.	Involve youth in the planning process; not to just “do” once it’s done
48.	need to take some load off music leaders – Suggestion: 2 people for 2 weeks; 1 content, 1 music
49.	Worship teams (music teams) do several weeks in a row for continuity
50.	Instruments: flute, we miss the cello, saxophone
51.	More musical interludes, special numbers—good way to involve the youth
52.	Include children more often
53.	Involve King’s
54.	Workshops to enhance contribution in services

#	Facility	Yes ü	Maybe	No ü	Comments
55.	Aesthetically distracting
56.	Acoustically poor
57.	Open, inviting
58.	Tiered semi-circle offers sense of wholeness
59.	Can’t see children’s story
60.	Occasional worship in other location? Inner city, hospital, smaller clusters. appeal to senses, growth experience

#	Education as worship	Yes ü	Maybe	No ü	Comments
61.	Adults are worried will bore kids but are underestimating our desire to learn
62.	another big project; long term (like the Testament banners) A project that incorporates everyone (e.g., the prayer vessel project)
63.	Drama—money for costumes, lighting, coaching teens to be able to present various dramas for children’s story
64.	Saturday children do art on a topic, which is displayed in atrium
65.	How do we relate to growing gap between rich/poor, Muslim/Christian communities—can we get to know others? interfaith forums?
66.	end the day together – the final five minutes -- so education is again seen as part of worship together?
67.	we keep trying to push programs – are we focusing on mechanics rather than purpose?

DIVERSE VIEWPOINTS

Opinion 1 ü	Opinion 2 ü	Comments
Inclusive language sometimes detracts from a song, especially if cherished in our church history. “He” = one aspect of God	We are not as inclusive as we could be – or used to be.
Services are too long.	Service length generally fine.
Worship for children?	More intergenerational worship
We overdo the emphasis on our total depravity -- could rotate confession time with., e.g., creeds and 10 commandments	sometimes assurance much longer than confession – like we don’t want to confess, admit our mistakes
Too much story telling, too little scripture interpretation & seeing big picture.	Sharing our stories is important and edifying
Spontaneity is hampered by our liturgies.	Language of liturgies enables worship
Lord’s Supper every week becomes common routine, lack of preparation, solemnity	Keep the blessing and joy of it Remember why we do it
Symbols, when we use them, are meaningful	Symbols can be ends in themselves
Wish we could cover the creation paintings	The Creation paintings contribute to our worship
Incorporate more humour, such as the splashing during Baptism	Splashing during baptism seemed out of place and disrespectful
entire congregation could do Stations of Cross on a Good Friday	Wouldn’t want to go without our Good Friday service
More movement, dance – as we have in past… clap stomp, kneel, hold hands, swaying	We’re reluctant to move – it’s associated with a certain “style”
Dislike space -- aesthetically distracting, acoustically poor	Space is open, inviting; , tiered semi-circle offers sense of wholeness
Hire King’s students to assist with education	We have all promised to nurture our children
No 2-day retreat! Format of today was much more workable in our schedules	Silent retreat for the whole church – or a topic such as: Why do we believe what we believe? Do we really believe everything written in the Bible?