Members – dedication of talented members of church

--dedicated lay leadership who take their work seriously; core group of dedicated members; core group that really cares about the church; dedicated and talented people who lead programs; hard working and dedicated; people willing to become involved; wonderful group of people who are talented; great group of people; committed membership; --congregation believes in God and Jesus and what God is doing; devoted to God; KUCC is a faith family;--we have people who understand the problems of our church and work very hard;--strong though small core of devoted workers; --when presented with a challenge the members meet it; no matter what the challenge people meet it and do it;--resourceful;--very giving of time and money, charitable; help those in congregation with needs;--excellent lay leadership

Commitment to social programs – outreach and mission programs; --sense of mission; mission;

              --concerned with those in need; outreach; --service orientated; strongly supports hands

               -on mission; involved in the community; --support programs like Kirdcare,

               homeless breakfast in spite of small membership; support of organizations beyond the church

               itself strong support for mission and outreach; -stress justice and peace; - history of positive

               storng support for mission and outreach; -stress justice and peace; -history of positive

               influence on the community.                                  

Friendly and caring church – ready to help one another and very caring of children; -Kindness and          warmth of the congregation; caring, warm environment;

--friendly, caring, concerned; friendly people; cooperative congregation of caring friendly people; friendliness and kindness; live Christian spirit ("do unto others"), caring people who support those who need help, friendly and caring people, good fellowship, friendly, caring congregation; warm, caring community; friendship, caring and concerned; friendly and caring church fellowship; warm and friendly church; friendly, active, loving, caring; warm, friendly church; warm and welcoming; very friendly; strong sense of community that is friendly; friendly, welcoming and caring congregation; caring and friendly;

            --great cross generational traditions;

 Open and inclusive congregation

--open to many different personalities, beliefs, etc.; inclusive and non-judgmental

--Open and Affirming congregation; Open and Affirming; Open and Affirming;

            --KUCC is compassionate ministers regardless of their faith partialities

--all are welcome; welcome visitors; guests feel welcome; visitors welcome; welcoming environment; welcoming to people of all race, economic levels, etc. 

            --reaches out to all

            --tolerance

 Family orientated

--strong sense of family; family feel that is warm and friendly; strong sense of family church; family feeling when you come to church; sense of family; strong sense of family/togetherness;

 Education for both youth and adults-good adult education program;-strong adult education program;

            -Sunday school and LOGOS programs; -education program is strong; good educational

            Programs; - Nurturing children; - great programs for all ages; - wonderful people working

            With children

Youth programs--strong youth programs but need more youth

 Worshiping together – music director; excellent music program and choir; -rich tradition of open

            worship

Property issues: Good location; - Property can be used to broaden mission agenda; -nice facilities

Worship:

 --preach word of God; --quality worship; maintain high quality worship       services; provide meaningful worship experiences; maintain quality, meaningful, substantive worship; --worship needs to be a vital center of congregational life;--change worship so it is more appealing to a wider community demographic; -- Incorporate some elements from "fundamental church services"

Membership Issues

--Increase, retain current and attract new, gradual increase in membership, increase membership, attract new members, grow the church; increase membership, especially families; grow the church; enlarge membership; increase membership (will enhance income and people to run programs); increase membership; increasing membership; foster growth; membership; like many mainline churches the challenge is membership; growth; stabilize aging congregation; --young families, especially families, pastor with youth ministry skills, grow membership to include younger families, get in some young families, getting new members and young families; secure younger members; attract families with children; young families; new, younger members; get members with children into church; grow congregation especially younger families; strive for new young families to join and participate; encourage people with children to join; bring young families into congregation to secure its future; getting more members and younger families; growth with concentration on youth;  -- bring in more members, recruit younger and older members--be attentive when members start to drift away; concentrate on keeping current members-- develop a more diverse congregation; work toward diversity in congregation

Accept all people

--church that is friendly and cares about each other; --reaching out to all ages and situations

Ministry to the community

--continue Christian spirit in mission outreach; continue programs for people in need; continue outreach ministries; sustain mission concern; continue history of mission outreach; mission; continue mission work; keep outreach programs; outreach and local missions; mission; --Expand social justice concern and action; increase mission work in immediate community; foster outreach; find more areas of compassionate ministry; mission work especially in the local area

Expand ministry to children and youth

--Pastor with strong youth ministry skills;--build youth program, youth programs including non-member youth, build youth group; youth programs; good youth programming; grow youth program; continue youth ministry; --priority should be youth; youth; --staff the nursery every week

Educational ministry

--sustain current educational concern; --build Sunday School; --teaching the Word

Be more spiritual rather than political (liberal views of UCC bothersome)

Pastor

--strong youth ministry skills; --charismatic; inspiring new pastor to enhance what is already happening; --find energetic and inspiring pastor; --find loving and intelligent pastor who can help us reach out to new members--articulate and intelligent person who can bring a challenging, provocative and stimulating message;

Spark members' passion for spiritual growth and action--help people to grow in faith