Deadlines and outlines

Today or tomorrow, I'll hope to have our focus group topic guide to post here, so that we may discuss it and make changes, if necessary.

Also, if you are on the focus group team, please be in contact with Ron Johnson about any last-minute plans for the focus groups on this Sunday, April 20, at 4:30 p.m. Please arrive at the church by shortly after 4 p.m. to help us get set up. I'm bringing cold bottles of water. Be ready on Monday to analyze the focus group conversation and to start shaping our final report.

Here's a short outline of what that report may look like:

Introduction (how does the church communicate now), with information from focus group with pastoral staff, from conversation with Meredith Bell and Beth Henkel, and from other information gathering.

Information about print and online media for church members (descriptions), plus description of how dissemination of information takes place at church itself (onsite team).

Survey results and discussion.

Focus group results and discussion.

Observations and synthesis of results.

Conclusions and recommendations.

Limitations.

This will at least give us a start on shaping the final report. Remember, we'll be making the presentation on May 6, and we hope to have a draft in hand from both classes by May 1.