Meeting Minutes 2023-11-25
/November 25, 2023 at 9:30 am ET – In person/ Zoom
Present: Alan Goh, James Chan, Victor Ling, Gord Chong, Winston Ling, Samantha
Ling
Regrets: Lily Dong, Sid Ingham
1. Opening Prayer
2. Visions (Objectives)
Going through a powerpoint that contains answers submitted by members prior
to the meeting – Presented by James Chan
a. How do the questions we’re asking serve as tools going forward?
i. Blueprint
ii. Map
iii. Compass
iv. Spec. sheet
v. Request for proposal
vi. Consultation
vii. Starting point
viii. A thing before the thing
ix. Contract
x. Foundation
b. Who is our target audience?
i. A wide range of people
ii. Keeping in mind the people we are serving now and working on
sustaining a healthy church
1. Maintaining what we have but also looking for opportunities
to support to expand
iii. Aiming mend the gaps in terms of demographics to ensure
that we have a solid base for support of all congregation members
c. Are we aiming for the same audience as other Chinese churches in the
area?
i. Keeping in mind the churches in the area that have strong
Cantonese and Mandarin services
ii. CPC has a strong English service
iii. The more the merrier, taking advantage of the fact that there
are other Chinese churches in the area and collaborate
d. What types of ministries do we want to offer to interest people? (What is
our menu?)
i. Discipleship
1. Training people to be disciples and showing people what it
means to be a disciple
2. Setting an expectation for newcomers that we are a
discipling church
3. This works well with our target audience of wide age ranges
and wanting to attract more families to come to CPC
ii. Destress ministry (Happy hour/Sandbox)
1. Aimed at younger people
2. Having events or a space for people to come and relax
a. Having food and a variety of activities available
3. Maintaining a relaxing casual atmosphere like a cafe
iii. Arts ministry which can include but is not limited to music,
fine art and drama
iv. Ministries aimed towards older congregation members
1. Financial literacy sessions
2. Legal clinic
v. Having ministries aimed toward specifically retired
congregation members
vi. CPC would benefit greatly having a designated space to
have different ministries
1. Having a flexible, multipurpose space that is intentionally
designed would be extremely beneficial
3. Closing Thoughts
a. CPC is looking to serve a wide demographic of people
b. Having a flexible space that can be used for many different types of
ministries would be extremely beneficial especially since CPC is looking to
serve a wide demographic of people
c. Looking into recruiting more members for the team to ensure that we can
get input and support from every demographic in our current congregation
before we move forward with any big projects or changes
d. The next meeting will be February 3
4. Closing Prayer