Reflections on the Church Officer Retreat

The church officer retreat last weekend was a terrific success with nineteen deacons and elders in attendance on a crisp Spring day at Camp Hopewell. In the morning we enjoyed some group building activities that taught us the importance of communication,and working together to accomplish a goal. In the afternoon we reviewed ten-year trends of our congregation and discovered our church is above average in terms of church size and we have a young church with 200 of our 318 members younger than 45 years old and 115 church membes who are younger than 25 years old. In light of statistics and trends we defined our goal as follows: "Our goal at Batesville Presbyterian Church is to glorify God by reaching out in mission to the community and by increasing participation and promoting activities for all age groups in the church ." The Deacons and Elders left Camp Hopewell feeling positive about where our church is and where we are headed and we look forward to sharing more information about our church statistics and trends in the weeks to come.