For over 75 years, the Lord has made his grace abound to and through our church. This plan is designed to bring clarity and unity to our ministry over the next five years as we seek to steward the gifts of his grace — knowing that even as we plan, God will do more than we ask or imagine.
In our 2024 ministry year, our Session* appointed a Strategic Planning Committee (SPC) to develop a five-year Strategic Plan — a comprehensive roadmap intended to further our mission to glorify and enjoy God by making disciples who make a difference through grace-filled worship, community, and missions. An important part of this process was capturing the collective feedback of congregants and our community to help guide the future direction of MPC.
Our committee members — Bruce Haynes (Chair), Chris McPeek, Jake Jenkins, Kate Barcley, Mark Whittle, Melissa Jones, Ryan Laughlin, and Tracy Pierson — represented a broad and diverse cross section of church members, including people from leadership, staff, and different demographic groups such as age, gender, church proximity, time in membership, and other factors.
A strategic planning process is a way for an organization to better define where it wants to go and what actions it needs to take over a period of time to get there. The end product — the strategic plan — is a road map of that journey tied to the organization’s priorities (with specific goals, targets, actions and responsibilities).
The SPC conducted most of the listening sessions and gathered additional information by the end of spring 2024.
During summer 2024, the SPC analyzed and aggregated the data and insights — and shared our findings with church leadership and staff. Once we socialized the findings, the SPC spent the remaining summertime and the early fall drafting the Strategic Plan.
Once drafted, the plan was finalized with church leadership and staff, concluding with the final plan presented at our Congregational Meeting on June 4, 2025.
The SPC’s efforts were focused on our McLean site. We shared preliminary findings and the final Strategic Plan with Herndon’s site pastors and elected leaders — who may choose to incorporate relevant data into their own strategic planning for the Herndon site.
Many exciting things are planned (and already underway)! Learn more about what’s coming up in fall 2025 as we grow in grace together.
8:45am | Worship Service
10:15am | Discipleship Hour
11:15am | Worship Service
We’d love to hear from you. Contact us with questions or share your perspectives by emailing the committee directly ([email protected]).
