It is a slow death to be gloomy all the time. GNB Church ought to be fun to attend. We will never succeed unless people enjoy coming to church. Someone said maturity is the ability to be able to laugh at yourself. One of the problems, as a generalisation, that those who make up the church have is that we do not take God seriously enough and we take ourselves too seriously.
Laughter is a great medicine.
We make our plans, but God has the last word. It has been said when you have a plan write it in pencil, don't carve it in stone. We need to be free and flexible enough to respond quickly to a seen need or to the Spirit's leading. While certain procedures and policies may be helpful we must make sure we don't load people down with them. We need to find and implement methods of feedback for the betterment of the church.