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3003 Silverside Road
Wilmington, DE 19810
302-478-3004

Last Updated
01/06/2008

Concordia Evangelical Lutheran Church

 

Serving Community by Sharing Christian Hope!

"Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding;
in all your ways acknowledge him...be not wise in you own eyes." Proverbs 3: 5-7a
 

Concordia Evangelical Lutheran Church

His Mission for Us

Serving Community by Sharing Christian Hope!

His Values for Us

Care for our Community - We value our ability to provide meaningful care to our community

Sharing Christian Love with each other - We value Christ’s model for how to treat others
Worshipping our Lord - We value our time together in corporate worship

Sharing the Gospel through Outreach - We will value our responsibility to go and make disciples of all nations

Youth Program & Young Families - We will value opportunities to serve young families and children as we develop our ministry

Personal Commitment to Spiritual Growth - We will value the Word of God and our need to understand it better

Growth of our Congregation - We will value all opportunities to encourage members and non-members to become actively engaged in ministry

His Vision for Us

Our guests will be inspired and up-lifted by our magnetic love as we embrace and feed them with renewed hope.

The empowered disciples of Concordia Lutheran will nurture each other with spiritual energy as we worship, teach and challenge ourselves.

We will reach into our diverse community, broadcasting our faith, as we serve their physical, intellectual and spiritual needs with the shining light of charity and love.

His Goal for Us

Create an enlivened fellowship, that boldly reaches out to remove roadblocks to spreading the Gospel and nurtures Spiritual growth.

His Strategies and Tactics for Us

Strategy: Create and sustain programs that meet the needs of our community’s culture

  • Geographic Events for Bible study & Fellowship

  • Promotional event to re-introduce church

  • Program for social interests (Monthly fun family events)

  • Provide relevant Life-Skill Workshops for the community

  • Expand/diversify music in worship & beyond

  • Change Church administration to reflect Outreach priorities & develop format to evaluate performance

  • Investigate how facility expansion could serve community needs

Strategy: Provide new and innovative educational and worship opportunities

  • Activities to follow up with youth through college age

  • Variety of worship services

  • Offer more opportunities for Bible study

  • Evangelism & Outreach Training

  • Hire staff to integrate educational ministries

  • Promote Small Group activities w/ new technologies

  • Fund educational experiences for professional & volunteer leaders

Strategy: Identify, develop and deploy our gifts to do the Lord’s work

  • Seek commitment from Body to identify and use their gifts

  • Assess programs & select those that reflect calling

  • Bible study opportunities for all that encourages application to our lives

  • Radio/ TV service/internet

  • Create Advent/Lent devotional booklets by members

  • Create process to implement & monitor (volunteer coordinator)

Commit to the Lord whatever you do, and your plans will succeed. Proverbs 16:3

 

Serving Community by Sharing Christian Hope!