Sunday Morning Assembly Schedule

The Southeast elders are considering options for reorganizing our Sunday morning schedule. At present we have two worship services with Bible classes during each worship service and with a 30 minute fellowship period between the two services.

Some desired objectives include:

• Reduce the high demand for human resources in the children’s program
• Improve Bible class attendance through improved scheduling, more variety in classes, and less need for home-builders having to work in the children’s program
• Shorten the time between worship service and classes by modifying the fellowship period
• Create an opportunity for a slightly longer worship period to allow inclusion of community building activities during the assembly

Some possibilities that have been mentioned include:

• Go to a single worship service with a single Bible study period following.
• Return to a worship – Bible study – worship format similar to what we used prior to the move to this facility
• Keep our present schedule with some modification to address the objectives above
  

Some limiting factors include:

• Size of the worship center
• Number of classrooms
• Number of parking spaces
• Suitable time slots on Sunday morning

All members are invited to comment through this blog to express your thoughts on any and all of these issues. Your suggestions, questions, and concerns are welcome.

Even if you have commented to the elders or staff, by responding here all who care to can see your response.

We know that not everyone will be happy with whatever we do or don’t do, but we also believe that the more people who give us their honest counsel, the better the outcome will be.