Last night's meeting was appreciated. It was not only productive but meaningful (as always with Creator members). I appreciated what was shared about Holy Week services.
On the productive side, the team agreed on a plan to follow council's proposed timeline and work towards presenting the Ministry Site Profile to the congregation at the May Congregational Meeting.
There was a concern that we not rush the process so the team also agreed if there are reasons why we can't make the date we would come up with a new timeline to present to council.
Here are some decisions on important dates and milestones:
- Team will appear before congregation to insure people know the work is going on and know who to go to:
4/3 - After Worship Town Hall - Transition Team Introduction
4/10 - At Worship - Blessing and Recognition
- Coordinating with Synod - Questions came up about how best to communicate to the Synod our openness to special candidacy considerations (for example if we might be open to a potential for a ministry couple or that we insure no ethnic consideration would preclude a potential candidate
4/14 - Worship Team Meeting with Susan Kintner to present our questions.
April will mostly be our information-gathering month from the congregation. This will include a survey, Cottage Meetings and One-to-ones. We recognize it will be hard to have all members attending meetings so we agreed we can plan, work and make decisions through the Transition Team blog and email. I will work on insuring this team can post to the blog
- Survey - The team felt it was important to get the survey into the hands of the congregation as quickly as possible. We want to insure the survey is distributed through social media (a link on Facebook through the Creator Group page). We also talked about a paper copies and floated the idea of having a Survey Sunday where many laptops and PCs are made available at the church for people to fill out the survey on online via wireless connections.
- Cottage Meetings - Currently the plan is for two "Cottage" Meetings One at Toni's and one at church. Both need to be planned and scheduled. Anyone want to be responsible for the planning and scheduling?
- One-to-ones - The plan is for some One-to-ones to be planned in the Cottage Meetings and to schedule others individually. If you know people who desire a One-to-one let the team know or conduct one yourself. One-to-ones are for relationship building
May will be focused on filling out the Ministry Site Profile with what we have gathered from the congregation and council.
- We already have the Congregational Vitality survey as another source of information
- We need to collect demographic data. Does anyone feel they would like to be responsible for filling in the demographic data?
- Remember: If there is information that would be directly pertinent to the Ministry Site Profile that we gather from any One-to-ones, our team is responsible for how it is reflected.
- There will be parts of the MSP the council will help us fill out.
- There will likely be a standalone write-up about Creator we will submit as part of the MSP
5/15 - Presentation to Council of Transition Team's proposed MSP
5/22 - Presentation at the May Congregational Meeting
Currently On The Team's Plate:
- We need to finalize the draft survey.
- Review the MSP for potential questions to Susan and additions / changes to the survey
- Sign in to www.surverymonkey.com - Username: CreatorMinistry Password: blessings
- Click into the Ministry Site Profile Information Gathering and click on the Analyze Results tab.
- Use both of the above to submit comments and suggestions for any changes to be made.. It would be great if the survey was ready to be published by next Friday.
- Decide what you work you would like to help with or be responsible for -
- One-to-ones
- Survey Work
- MSP Additional Write Up
- Cottage Meeting scheduling and planning
- Demographic information
- Other
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