Three Things from Administrative Council

Administrative Council had their regularly scheduled meeting this past Sunday March 16, 2014 immediately following worship.

As is our habit, here are "The Three Things" you need to know from that meeting.

1. Future Facing At one of our Hope Partnership Leadership Retreats the question was asked by our facilitator "How much of the time at your Board Meetings is spent discussing things that already happened? And how much of your time is spent discussing who God is calling you to be?" The truth is, those percentages have probably been out of whack for us at our Administrative Council Meetings. So we are intentionally restructuring our meetings to cut down on unnecessarily long reports and focusing instead on the longview of our church's success in ministry. For a practical piece of that restructure see #3.
   
2. Widening the Table We formally moved to include Disciples Women's Ministry and Disciples Men's Fellowship as active participants in the work of Administrative Council.
   
3. New Agenda and an Invitation from our A.C. Secretary
   Instead of having each ministry team bring a full report to Administrative Council we have asked that each time bring "two highlights from their ministry team's work" to share with the council. From there, we have allotted time for any official business that needs to come from our committees, carved out time to get all everyone's events listed on the church calendar, and have created time to talk about specific issues regarding the church's vision for the future (in this particular meeting we talked about the Hope Process and our journey to becoming "The Church of Yes!").