TIM, Together in Mission, had fruitful conversations this week as we met with Jeff Spann, the building consultant from the ELCA Mission Investment Fund. In our conversations, we were reminded about our purpose as the church. We emphasized that our buildings are a tool for ministry (by ministry we mean things like worship, education, and outreach), and ministry is our purpose as the church. Jeff then toured the four buildings with Pastors Dan and Adam for over 3 hours and will have a preliminary report of positive and negative aspects of all four buildings to the group in the next couple of months. Jeff does not make specific recommendations, but provides us with tools to help facilitate the local decision making processes. In the meantime, TIM continues to focus on how to best share this group’s work with the councils and congregations and how we can be more together than we can be apart. Stronger ministries and witness are the primary goals of this group. Your prayers and feedback are needed and encouraged.