After opening with prayer, the group began its session on "YOUR RELATIONSHIP TO THE LARGER COMMUNITY."  The purpose of this session was to examine the community around our church, to discover what its needs are, and to learn how our congregation can relate to the community.  The way a congregation interacts with the larger community has a direct bearing on its own health and vitality.  

The evening's Bible verses were John 17:15-18, Matthew 5:13, and Luke 4:18-19.  These verses concern the relationship of the church to the world.  After sharing our answers to the questions relating to the specific Bible verses, we listed items the passages suggest our congregation should be doing as part of the body of Christ today.  

 Next we answered the question:  What does the Bible say about our relationship to the world?  

 Finally we answered the question:  What do we believe tonight's scriptures say about what we should be doing in the world?  

 After the Bible study, we broke into small groups to consider the area around our church.  Many members of the congregation do not live in Cranbury.  On the map provided, we marked other churches, institutions, industries, businesses, and residential areas.  We also indicated distant institutions like Princeton High School that we believed to be especially important to people who live in Cranbury.  The annotated maps were presented to the group as a whole and are on display in the Parish Hall.  

Next we shared the results of our windshield surveys and our interviews with local townspeople who are not church members.  The windshield survey focused on Who do you see? What are they doing?  In the interviews, townspeople were asked to state one or two concerns or needs of the community and to suggest ideal solutions.  From this information, we developed a list of Cranbury's pressing issues and voted for our top four.  The results are tabulated below.

 Some of Cranbury's pressing issues are:  

 We ended with worship and unison prayer.  The results of the windshield survey and the interviews were collected and will be given to Session for their consideration.

 Please join us on Thursday February 12^th for Mission Study Five-

"STATING WHAT YOU ARE GOING TO DO"