New+Minister+Weekend

Some references from the facilitated "New Ministry Weekend" sessions 12-13Sept2008 facilitated by [|Mid-South UUA District Executive Eunice Milton Benton]:

Friday night A Timeline of church history was created and in Feb2009 was put into Timelines format on this web site. The timeline was updated again on Saturday and photos taken of the resulting approximately 20 ft long x 3ft "scroll". The photos will be posted and linked here later. It only took 5 months to find a straightforward way to put the information collected into an online timeline format!

Sat morning:
 * Exercise to establish Roles & Responsibilites as currently understood for the minister by the assembled members of the C3H Board and Church Council. These were captured on 2ftx3ft newsprint sheets.
 * Reviewed the R&Rs expected from the minister, also on 2ftx3ft newsprint sheets.
 * Newsprint sheets developed by the Church Council, Board members, and other "lay leaders" facilitated by Eunice, and the ones developed by Maj-Britt have been scanned and will be posted later in the week.

References from Eunice drawn upon during the workshop: >
 * [|Growing a Beloved Community by Rev Tom Owen-Toole]
 * [|Whos Church is This ? Dan Hotchkiss] [|sermon on same from Thom Belote]
 * [|Assessing Our Leadership, UUA document] on dealing with assessment and organization and unpaid staff, etc
 * [|Awakened from the Forest]
 * [|Creating Covenants in Congregations]
 * [|Resources for Committees on Ministries]