Strategic Plan
Through a process of assessing our strengths, identifying potential growth areas, and seeking God’s direction, we have affirmed a guiding mission and vision for NaperCov. Our vision looks to a preferred future that we believe God has for us, and that is to be:
An increasingly diverse, compassionate community committed to knowing, loving, and serving Jesus in our neighborhoods and world.
Strategic Focus Areas
Our strategic plan, approved in the fall of 2018, highlights key areas to address in our life together. It provides a roadmap for us as we pray, grow, and work together in the direction of that vision. Come see whether God is urging you to join us on this pathway with your gifts and passions!
The four Strategic Focus Areas included in our vision are:
1. Increasingly Diverse
2. Compassionate Community
3. Knowing, Loving, Serving
4. Neighborhoods and World
Strategic Focus Area 1: Increasingly Diverse
As a church, we are diverse in many ways and we especially value the ethnic diversity with which we’ve been blessed in recent years. We envision growing in our understanding of what it means to truly be a multi-ethnic congregation. This will mean doing the hard work of listening and learning together about race and racial differences, all while celebrating our oneness in Jesus as seen in John’s vision in Revelation 7:9-10.
Strategic Focus Area 2: Compassionate Community
We believe God is calling us to deeper and more meaningful expressions of Christ-like compassion in our life together as a church AND we envision that same compassion motivating us to address deep needs in our neighborhoods and world. Compassion is a rich biblical word that comes alive in the person and ministry of Jesus. Compassion is the first piece of “clothing” Paul calls the church to put on in Colossians 3:12.
Strategic Focus Area 3: Knowing, Loving, Serving
We want everyone to KNOW God in a relationship with Jesus, to authentically LOVE one another, and to SERVE God both within the church and as we reach out with the compassion, mercy and justice of Jesus. This will mean a more focused approach to Christian growth and discipleship for all ages, as we discover together, across generational lines, what it means to know, love and serve God.
Strategic Focus Area 4 – Neighborhoods and World
We believe that when Jesus said “Love your neighbor” in his Great Commandment, he meant our actual neighbors around the church itself; in each of the neighborhoods where our members live; and beyond. John 3:16 proclaims God’s love for the whole world and Jesus’ Great Commission calls us to make disciples of all nations (Greek; ethnos). We will continue to build and develop relationships where the hurting are helped and the lost are found.