Do you see things?

There is an old Hillsong song from the Geoff Bullock days called "We Have A Vision" and while the music is a little cheesy, I've been thinking a lot about the words lately...

"We have a vision for this nation We have a dream for this land..."

And, I have to be honest, I don't really have a vision for this nation, or even for all of South Australia... but I do have a vision for my church.

We don't have a youth group/program at Croydon at the moment. It wouldn't make much sense if we did, since we don't have very many youth-type-people anyway. What we do have, however, is a number of young kids around 7-12 and in a few years these guys will definitely be looking for a youth group and if we want to keep these young people we will need to find a way to cater to their spiritual needs.

So this year we have started a series of activities for the kids we have in this age group. The plan is that we will grow these kids into a youth group.

But we have to start planning for this stuff now!

So, as I think about this stuff there are 2 questions that come to mind...

1. What is your vision?

2. What are you doing now to make that vision a reality.

"Whether it’s across the table with another church leader, at a planning retreat, or talking to the whole church-every time you talk about what could be and should be, you’re casting vision" - Andy Stanley

To check out the article that this quote came from follow this link.