When we first started this innovation project, we intended to improve the community and environment of our church community. We wanted for our church community to be more a family than just people we see around at church; however, we weren’t really able to accomplish this goal, though. The community did become much closer, but not much as a result of us.
There were many things that factor into this project not going the way we wanted and originally planned. Lack of time was a major part of this, but I think the most significant reason why this project did not succeed, on my part, was that I wasn’t even close to majority of the people there. I had my small group of friends that I stuck to whenever there was an event.
How could I possibly think that I would be able to improve the community of the church without first becoming more involved and meeting more people in the community myself first? Well through the process, I ended up going to more church events than I usually would, talked to new people, generally kept a positive attitude, and basically improved myself.
Even though this project was somewhat of a failure in that it did not accomplish the goal that was set at hand, it was a success for me on a personal level which, I think, is where I needed to start with before I even thought about improving the church environment. Now that I have improved myself, maybe I can accomplish what we originally wanted to just for fun.
There were many things that factor into this project not going the way we wanted and originally planned. Lack of time was a major part of this, but I think the most significant reason why this project did not succeed, on my part, was that I wasn’t even close to majority of the people there. I had my small group of friends that I stuck to whenever there was an event.
How could I possibly think that I would be able to improve the community of the church without first becoming more involved and meeting more people in the community myself first? Well through the process, I ended up going to more church events than I usually would, talked to new people, generally kept a positive attitude, and basically improved myself.
Even though this project was somewhat of a failure in that it did not accomplish the goal that was set at hand, it was a success for me on a personal level which, I think, is where I needed to start with before I even thought about improving the church environment. Now that I have improved myself, maybe I can accomplish what we originally wanted to just for fun.
-Post by Kathleen