Stewardship……Stewardship/Lay Leadership Meeting Minutes July 17, 2007
We are going to check on usage of envelopes as to whether it is making a difference mailing them monthly. We do have the option to mail qtrly, semi, or annually also. (I spoke with Carol W., she will not be able to tell until next year because of the new program she is using this year does not show that past history). Carole shared that for Sept the insert included with the envelopes will be a “motivator” card. We will see what the reaction is to that.
We began discussing what type of plan we wanted to do for the fall financial stewardship commitment program. After reviewing what had been done in the past and what we liked about the different ones, the Lay Leadership committee joined us. Last time we met together we were discussing how to proceed with spiritual gift exploration.
Ideas began to flow of bringing both processes together because both are part of our commitments to stewardship of time, talent, gifts, and service. Everyone liked the idea of the broad coverage we can accomplish in the process. (pie thought of as the symbol then have pie at gatherings?)
Thoughts at this point:
9/9- Education Roundup Day- Rally Day for Stewardship? (Bears at 3 PM)
Begin the small group gatherings in homes & church, goal of 20 gatherings(each of the members of both committees line up 1-2 host/hostess for our next meeting with a date/time for the host to have session) Have 10 leaders lead these gatherings with each one doing 2 sessions- training provided before the gatherings occur- begin gathering with 20 minutes of gift conversation and 40 minutes of what ministry, what programs people see Epworth focusing on, have lists prepared of opportunities with room to grow - end of session the group sets a date for another gathering of the same group around a month later
10/14 (Bears at 12) All Church banquet celebrating the process, fun event with skits and stories (10/7 Bears at 7:15)
begin 2nd round of gatherings in homes (some held at church also)- at this gathering there will be questions and answers and the opportunity to fill out one’s all around stewardshipcommitment card
11/11- Celebration of Commitments in worship and between services (Bears at 3)
David N and Carole will send out some proposals of spiritual gift inventories or materials to consider before our next meeting
Meet again, both groups, on Tues., August 14th at 6:00 PM, bringing with us 2 names of host/hostess for the two gatherings(same host for both gatherings) along with a date& time for that session, one in Sept/ early Oct, the other late Oct /early Nov –we will work out rest of details at that time
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