Take-Part Photos

Before the meeting began, members of the Live Oak congregation placed dots on charts that listed ideas for spaces in our new church and activities we would like to do.	A nice meal followed the dot placing, along with introductions of participating Stewardship staff.	We heard some introductory words from the architects.
Our next activity was brainstorming about spaces we'd like to see in the church. We were randomly divided into groups, trying to mix everyone thoroughly. Each table had a facilitator from Stewardship.	We also brainstormed about how we would like the spaces to relate to each other.	This group is indicating types of spaces in circles, and writing types of activities on color-coded slips of paper.
Here is the final result of the task shown in the previous photo.	This group used a different type of organization for their ideas. There were no right or wrong answers!	Gayle circulated amongst the groups.
The discussion was quite animated.	You can see that there was quite a large turn-out.	When we were done, we shared our ideas with the other groups.
Our final task was to take maps and arial photos of the property and create ideas for where to put buildings, paths, gardens, parking etc.	We used all sorts of interesting materials to create our maps.	This photo nicely shows some of the dots we placed in the first activity.
Beans indicating trails, etc., and wooden blocks indicating buildings.	This final product shows trails, buildings, and driveways.	As with the previous activity, we viewed the work of others when we were finished.
Later on, we held a special session for Live Oak children's and youth's input	The young people drew their visions for the church.