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).

• Agenda
• Approved Minutes, October 6, 2008 Council Meeting
• October Committee Reports
• Budget Summary - January - September 2008

• Agenda
• September Committee Reports
• Approved Minutes, June 2, 2008 Council Meeting (see below - approved during the summer)
• Summary Budget

• Approved Minutes of the June 2nd Church Council Meeting
  
• Fellowship Events Team Report - Presented at the June 2nd Church Council Meeting
• Tom Lank's Report
• Ruth W's Report
• March 2008 Decision of the Church Council re: Submitting Committee Reports and Summary Budgets for the PUMC Website
• Documents relating to the Proposed Mission Statement were added in this section of the website and may be viewed from the pull-down menu (Community -> Our Proposed Mission Statement)

• Agenda
• Committee Reports
• Summary Budget for April 2008
• Summary Budget for January - April 2008
• Approved Minutes of the May 5, 2008 Council Meeting

• Agenda for the May 5, 2008 Meeting
• Approved Minutes of the April 14, 2008 Council Meeting
• Summary Budget - January - March 2008
• April 14 Mission Planning Session -- Data Collected
• Ministry/Committee/Group Support Information Brochure on meeting Church Council Growth Goals (handed out as a brochure at the meeting, this document has been reformatted to 8.5" x 11")
• PUMC Council Goals Support (A Powerpoint presentation by Jeff R which has been reformatted into pdf format for viewing in Acrobat Reader)

• Committee Reports
• Agenda for the April 14 Mission Workshop and Church Council Meeting
• Church Health Team Input Document - A report on our church gathered during the Natural Church Development process
• Introductory Information on Connie Merchant, our Facilitator
• Notes from the Mission Retreat on March 1st
• Scripture (1 Corinthians 12: 12-31) to be read in preparation for this meeting

• Approved Minutes of the March 3, 2008 Council Meeting

• Invitation Letter
• Agenda
• Directions to the Mission Retreat
• Information on the Retreat Leader
• Scripture to read daily in the week before the Retreat

• 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.