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Shoutin' From the Mountaintop - A Report From Your Church Board
We do our best to communicate with everyone, but there's always a lot going on, so you may not be aware of all the wonderful things happening at Shadow Rock. For most of the last few weeks, Rock the Week has included a series of reports covering all aspects of our life together. If you read something that piques your interest, warms your heart, or invites you to participate, contact the church office, and we’ll be happy to point you in the right direction! This week, we have two reports for you, from the Care Team and the Outreach Team.
Outreach Team
For those people and families that are searching for a spiritual home, Shadow Rock UCC might offer such a home if the searcher's values align with our own. The Outreach Team has been working to provide exposure to interested parties via an assortment of methods.
The church website offers an experience that's a close second best to an in person Sunday morning visit. The team is looking at our website as Shadow Rock's front door, offering a good introduction to our church, who we are, and what we do. The Team has made recommendations regarding updating the content of the website to accurately showcase who we are today and to also increase the visual experience of first-time lookers.
Having a website is one thing, getting people to look at it is another! We are using other social media to expand our outreach activities, have re-engaged with the folks at the Tattler to reach out to the more local residents and are reviewing other methods of encouraging those searching to take a look at us.
A well received introduction to Shadow Rock, either in-person, via a third person or by no-person can lead to a wonderful and lasting relationship – that is our hope.
Care Team
Caring for one another is part of Shadow Rock’s DNA. In March 2020, a group of people saw the necessity to give some structure to that caring by forming a care team. Since then, we have met weekly via Zoom to identify members of the church in need of some TLC. We have reached out and cared in a variety of ways:
- Sent cards and notes for all occasions
- Found rides to appointments
- Visited folks who felt isolated
- Occasionally whipped up a meal
Our most important task has been to stay in touch by phone. We all need to feel connected and a friendly voice calling to find out if you’re OK can be a spirit lifter for both parties. If you would like to have someone from the team contact you, please let Lois know. The grapevine works well at Shadow Rock but sometimes we miss someone. We're grateful for team members Pastor Ken, Lois Beberniss, Bert Ruby, Barb Geer, Forrest Bachtel and Linda Johnston. We sorely miss Carol Shipman who started the ball rolling.
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