This project/thesis proposes a system for planning, conducting, and evaluating aids to worship services at Trinity Presbyterian Church of Columbia, Missouri. These aids to the worship services were designed specifically using skits, newly designed worship bulletins and mission displays in the narthex of the church to enhance and increase the personal involvement of members in mission, and increase the financial giving designated for mission causes historically supported by the membership and contained in the church annual budget. The theological framework and biblical grounding for this thesis project come together in the prophetic words of Amos 5:16-27, where worship, justice, and righteousness are connected. Following a Trinitarian theology for a mission-focus is centered on God’s prophetic call to help “the widow, the orphan, the sojourner, and the poor”, Christ’s concern for those in need of the most basic necessities for life, the risen Christ’s threefold directive to Peter, “feed my sheep”, and the Holy Spirit as "the principal agent of mission". An ecclesiology centered on the people of God in mission is the basic understanding of the church. This project was evaluated by the overall results focused on the number of persons directly involved in mission causes and the total of financial giving by members for those causes. Persons directly involved in the worship planning and the conducting of the worship, as well as the overall impressions of the members of the congregation, were also sought and examined using pre- and post-surveys.
