Hot off the presses.  Here is the December Mission Launch Newsletter.  Check out page two “The Seismic Shifts to a Mission Launch” where Pastor Schmidt shares the first two of the seven shifts we need to make to act like a mission team.

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Want to be reenergized by the vision of this Mission Launch Team?  Go to “The Vision” page link above and you will be able to read the campaign booklet on Concordia’s Mission Launch.

Here is the newest rendering of the new mission.  In the center is the sanctuary, to the left the preschool, to the right the K-8 school and to the extreme right in the rear, the community center.  To the right of the day school is the public park that we have been discussing.

Together: Pursuing God’s mission and vision for the present and the future.

Introduction:

“I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man of the moon and returning him safely to Earth.” President John F. Kennedy, May 25, 1961. 

That was a dramatic, ambitious, and, for some, a seemingly impossible goal.  Some said it would never happen.  Some said it could never happen.  Some said it was too much work and would take too many resources from other things to make it happen.

No one had ever done that before and it was uncertain whether anyone could.  Yet…..

(read the whole vision HERE.)