2022 Strategic Planning Feedback Form

Your responses are vital as we chart our Presbytery’s future’s course! Thank you for taking the time to offer your candid feedback and perspective.

The below form is available if you are not able to attend one of the eight listening sessions currently being scheduled. Read more about the strategic planning process here.

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In our listening sessions, we are asking individuals to imagine themselves in the shoes of different stakeholder groups that might be different from their own. These same questions are below. For each set of questions, put yourself in the position of someone from the group mentioned (e.g. member of a local congregation, pastor or ruling elder, etc). If you identify within this group, simply answer as yourself.

For these two questions, imagine that you are a member of a local congregation…

1. As a member of a larger community of believers (the Presbytery of Baltimore), what role do you hope the Presbytery plays (or think it can play) in your daily life?

2. When you think about your faith journey and what God is calling you to be and do in the world, how can the Presbytery support that journey?

For these three questions, imagine that you are a pastor or an elder of a congregation in the PoB…

1. When you think about guiding and supporting members of your flock, what one or two things do you hope the Presbytery can provide or equip you with?

2. In your personal faith journey, what resource or support can the Presbytery provide you with to deepen your relationship with Christ?

3. We often think that adding things to what we already provide as the only way of helping someone, if the Presbytery could eliminate or reduce one or two things, what would they be?

For these two questions, imagine that you are a member of the local community surrounding your church (but that you do not attend)…

1. What might God be calling the Presbytery of Baltimore to do within your local community?y provide as the only way of helping someone, if the Presbytery could eliminate or reduce one or two things, what would they be? (copy)

2. As you have been salt and light within your community, how could the Presbytery support you?

Additional Questions:

1. As apostles of reconciliation, we are called to serve those on the margins, what role do you believe the Presbytery has in support of the challenge?

2. In what ways does the Presbytery get in the way of this call?

3. When you hear the phrase “those on the margins,” what groups of people do you think of?

Other stakeholders to consider…

1. What stakeholder groups do you think we are missing?

1. Share any thoughts you have regarding these stakeholder groups.

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For these two questions, imagine that you are a member of a local congregation…

For these three questions, imagine that you are a pastor or an elder of a congregation in the PoB…

For these two questions, imagine that you are a member of the local community surrounding your church (but that you do not attend)…

Additional Questions:

Other stakeholders to consider…

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