Church Council 2008 - Archive

The Charge Conference Reports are presented here in PDF form for you to download and read.  The reports are from the Church Staff and the Chairs of our various Church Committees.

The Charge Conference unanimously approved our new Mission and Vision Statements.  Hats off to the Mission Team that created these two wonderful documents!  Here are the background documents that were part of the process of getting there.  In addition, documents from the March 1 Mission Retreat are shown below (scroll down).

• Church Health Team Report, November 17, 2007

• Why a Church Council? - An article from the Chimes in December 2007 or January 2008

Rethink Church -- A new program of the United Methodist Church to help us with church growth.

UM Global Ministries, School of Congregational Development -- Help in creating evangelistically effective congregations.

The Foundation for Evangelism -- parent ministry of the Web Empowered Church and an affiliate of the General Board of Discipleship of the UMC.

Blogs and Podcasts from the Foundation for Evangelism -- additional information for church growth.

Doug Ruffle's Blog Site -- Read about various ideas on church growth.

Natural Church Development -- Equipping world changing disciples.

Igniting Ministry -- The television and welcoming ministry of the United Methodist Church.

"Moodle" Online Training from UMC.org -- Some courses are open to guest registration and others are by invitation. Check it out.