When things end badly, sometimes you forget what you did well. And as a leadership team, we did a lot of things right. This past Saturday night, the Baccalaureate Leadership Team sat down and celebrated! This is what we celebrated!
What are we celebrating tonight?
We did 13 (2 in 2010) great Baccalaureate services that impacted the lives and families of about 1000+ students. (Our lowest attendance was 65 (2009) and our highest was 143.)
We started with a mundane, run of the mill Baccalaureate – Remember the pastors sat across the stage, the speaker was a noted dignitary, but not always student friendly, the program listed the churches and the senior pastors and the graduates' names in micro type.
Each year we fine tuned the service adding power point, worship, student testimonies, student led prayer, a prayer team.
We did a unique service for each graduating class, searching for unique students that had gifts that we could utilize in the Baccalaureate service, often without any input from students!
We involved at least 22 different churches and organizations in Baccalaureate. There are 21 on the reverse and I can come up with at least 2 more.
We added a reception in 2000 and gifts to the graduates in 200?. We went to the t-shirts in 2004 and the logo in 2003
We negotiated the issues with the Pearland Ministerial Alliance and PISD amazingly well.
We developed a priority for making decisions based on our values and what we thought was important to each class.
We came up with a committee structure that allow for all churches to be represented.
When faced with opposition from the youth pastors, we choose to work together and to be inclusive and inviting, adapting to their issues.
Thank you for your Faithful Service!
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