Transcript Charge Conference Forms Review

Church/Charge Conference
Forms Review
July 19, 2011 at Mt. Vernon Mulberry Street UMC
July 20, 2011 at West Lafayette UMC
Presented by Rev. Jim Humphrey
Let’s Begin
• Paperwork and Disks were passed out at
Annual Conference at Lakeside
• Schedule, forms and information about
charge conferences are all available on
District Website:
www.3riversumc.org
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Clergy Deadlines and Dates Due
• The following materials are to be completed
and returned to the District Office
– ONE WEEK prior to your Clergy Consultation:
• CPA (Clergy Profile Annual)
• CFC (Continuing Formation of Clergy) form
– At the time of Clergy Consultation:
• CPL (Clergy Long Term Profile) if you want to update
• Clergy Bio form
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S/PPR & Church Deadline Dates
• The following materials are to be completed and returned to
the District Office
–ONE WEEK prior to the Charge Conference
or at S/PPR Consultation:
• LCPA (Local Church Profile Annual)
• LCLP (Local Church Long term Profile) update if out of date
• Charge Conf OMNIBUS form (w/attachments)
• 2012 Pastor Compensation report (w/signatures)
• Pension and Disability worksheet
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AT Charge Conference:
The following materials need to be signed, filed and totally
completed:
• Charge Conf OMNIBUS form (w/attachments)
Appropriate number of copies made for those attending
• 2012 Pastor Compensation report
• Lay Speakers’ annual reports
• Parsonage inspection form/report
• Clergy Housing Exclusion
• Any Pension enrollment
forms/changes
District will provide ballots
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Pastor/SPRC Work on Together
2011 Evaluation for Continuing
Formation of Clergy (CFC)
• This form has been updated from last year to
include information being requested by the
Council of Bishops and reportable to the 2012
General Conference of The United Methodist
Church. We’ll look at this in a little more detail.
A letter was sent sharing some specifics of
information needed as we move into 2012.
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December 1 Deadline:
• Leadership Directory (Return ONE copy)
• 2012 Church Budget/Financial Projection
December 31 Deadline:
• Completed Goal Setting for 5 Key Areas
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Omnibus Charge/Church Conference
Report for 2011
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Difference between Charge vs Church Conference?
Review form and items critical to be filled in.
Large church / small church differences
Why is a ballot needed?
Problem areas:
– Lay speaker forms – completed and signed before
conference.
– Nominations/Leadership Committee
– Parsonage Review – rental/not? Info
– Review 18. l/m/n/o line items
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Reality Check
Where We Are Today!
• Drastically different than even 5 years ago
• Challenging times to be in ministry – for
pastor and the local church
• Economic realities hitting home
• Cost of pastoral leadership hard to sustain
• Aging pastoral leadership
• Need for increased lay leadership to engage in
innovative ministries
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Reality Check
Where We Are Today!
• Compass Groups here to stay – growing need for
churches to collaborate and develop shared
ministry models to reach the mission field.
• No lone ranger pastors
• No lone ranger churches
• If We Are The Body --- we are one with each
other and the in ministry to the world.
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Quick Landscape Look Around
Call to Action Report
• A Call to Act: Reorder the Life of the Church.
• 2009 – charged to find ways to become more
effective at fulfilling mission of making
disciples of Jesus Christ for the transformation
of the world and to be vital in ministries
addressing the Four Areas of Focus.
• www.umc.org/CalltoAction
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The UMC
Vital Congregations Project
A collaborative project of
The United Methodist Church
Key Drivers to Vitality
• Effective pastoral leadership
(management, vision and
inspiration)
• Multiple small groups and programs for
children and youth
• Mix of traditional and contemporary worship
• High percentage of spiritually engaged laity
who assume leadership roles
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Call to Act: The Way Forward
• 1. For a minimum of 10 years, starting in
January 2011, use the drivers of vital
congregations as initial areas of attention for
building and sustaining vital ministry in the
local church.
• 2. Dramatically reform the clergy leadership,
development, deployment, evaluation and
accountability systems.
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Call to Act: The Way Forward
• 3. Collect, report, review and act on statistical
information that measures progress in key
performance areas to learn and adjust our
approaches to vital ministry. We may utilize
the Compass Groups to help in this gathering
and reporting process. This will require
pastors, churches and district superintendents
to work closely together and as a team.
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Call to Act: The Way Forward
• 4. Reform Council of Bishops: assuming
responsibility and public accountability for
improving worship attendance; increasing
professions of faith; baptisms; participation in
servant/mission ministries; lowering average
age of participants in local church; and
establishing a new culture of accountability
throughout the Church.
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Call to Act: The Way Forward
• 5. Consolidate program/administrative
agencies and align their work and resources
with the priorities of the Church and the
decade-long commitment to build vital
congregations.
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Vital Congregations are everywhere!
So What About Us –
Local Church
• Identify our Mission and live into it.
• Intentionally look at your history and
demographics or other sources about our
community so that we might lean forward into
ministry.
• Status Quo – NO MORE!
• Honest appraisal of our relevance as a local
church and our lay/clergy leadership.
• God isn’t finished with us Yet!!
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Metrics
• We, each and every local church, are being
called to work toward and sustaining health
and vitality. But how do we know the fruit?
We don’t like metrics (measurements), but
they are a valuable tool for tracking how we’re
doing. There are 5 measurable indicators of
the vitality indicated by the research:
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Key Indicators
• Disciples in worship (average worship attendance)
• Disciples making new Disciples (Professions of Faith)
• Disciples growing in their faith (number of small
groups that meet together regularly in order to
support, encourage and hold one another accountable
in their relationship with Christ)
• Disciples engaged in mission (number of disciples
doing outreach in the community and world)
• Disciples sharing their resources for mission (amount
of financial resources given to mission – including
World Service, etc.)
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Our Story:
Know your church’s story
Past Performances Predicts
Future Successes
• Each congregation has a history – a past that has affected
where they are at today. Even the denomination has a
history that has affected our health and vitality today. This
webpage uses GBGM church profiles research to help a
congregation see its historical report.
• Questions to consider when looking at historical reports:
o Pastoral Leadership – Was there a change in the lead
pastor? How long did the lead pastor stay?
o What significant events in the church may have affected
the worship attendance?
o What significant events in the community may have
affected the data of the congregation?
www.umvitalcongregations.org
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www.umvitalcongregations.org
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www.umcvitalcongregations.org
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www.umvitalcongregations.org
Vital Congregations
• GROWING – have shown increased in AWA
and Professions of Faith over past 5 years
• ENGAGING PEOPLE – past 5 years increased
small groups, mission and outreach
• GENEROUS – past 5 years have shown
increase in stewardship and giving within and
beyond local church
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Goals
• Each congregation is being
called to set goals for each
of these five areas for
2012, 2013, and 2014. You will note that on
your CFC (Continuing Clergy Formation) form
these numbers are to be recorded.
While these numbers could be placed on the CFC form, they
can also be turned in later, with a deadline of December 31,
2011.
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Continuing Formation of Clergy
(CFC)
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Evaluation for Continuing Formation of Full Members and
Local Pastors is a continuous process for formation in
servant ministry and servant leadership that must take place in a
spirit of understanding and acceptance. Evaluation serves as a
process for pastors to assess their effectiveness in ministry and to
discern God’s call to continue in ordained ministry. The district
superintendent, in consultation with the pastor-parish relations
committee, will evaluate annually the pastor’s effectiveness for
ministry, using criteria, processes and training developed by the
cabinet and the Board of Ordained Ministry. The pastors of the
local churches shall participate annually in an evaluation with the
committee on pastor-parish relations for use in an ongoing
effective ministry and for identifying continuing education needs
and plans. (Paragraph 350.1 United Methodist Book of Discipline)
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Radical Hospitality
“Welcome one another, therefore, just as Christ has welcomed you, for the glory of
God“
1.
How is your congregation shaping a welcoming environment for newcomers?
2.
What does your congregation follow-up with first-time visitors?
3.
What is your congregation’s plan to increase hospitality in the coming year?
4.
What new and innovative ministry have you launched in the past year?
5.
What else, if anything, might be helpful in understanding the pastor’s and
congregation’s effectiveness in the area of Radical Hospitality?
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Radical Hospitality
Supporting Statistics
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_____ number of first time visitors in 2010
_____ number of those visitors who now attend worship at least monthly
_____ number who have made a profession of faith and received into membership
(Table I- 2a)
_____ number who have been received into membership by transfer or
reinstatement (Table I)
Setting GOALS:
2012
Number of People who will join by professions of faith: ________
2013
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2014
________
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Passionate Worship
“How lovely is your dwelling place, O Lord of Hosts! My soul longs, indeed it
faints, for the courts of the Lord.” (Ps. 84:1-2)
1.
What is most engaging about worship in your church setting?
2.
How do the pastor/s and laity work together to lead worship?
3.
What practice does your congregation have for baptism follow-up?
4.
What is your congregation’s plan for offering future Passionate Worship?
5.
What else, if anything, might be helpful in understanding the pastor’s
and congregation’s effectiveness in the area of Passionate Worship?
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Passionate Worship
Supporting Statistics
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_____ average weekly worship attendance in 2010 (all weekly worship events)
(Table I – 10)
_____ number of increase/decrease in average attendance from 2009
_____ number of times your congregation celebrates communion each year
_____ number of baptisms in 2010 (Table I – 11)
Setting GOALS:
Average worship attendance:
2012
2013
2014
________
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________
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Intentional Faith Development
“They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, to the breaking of
bread and prayers.” (Acts 2:42)
1.
How is faith intentionally nurtured in your children, youth and adults?
2.
How are you training and equipping your leaders?
3.
What evidence is there that your congregation is closer to Christ and deeper in
relationship with God?
4.
List the small groups where Intentional Faith development will take place in the
next 5 years.
5.
What else, if anything, might be helpful in understanding the pastor’s and
congregation’s effectiveness in the area of Intentional Faith Development?
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Intentional Faith Development
Supporting Statistics
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3.
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_____ number of groups started in this past year which position persons
to grow in grace and mature in Christ.
_____ number of small groups led by laity
_____ total number of faith small groups, SS classes, Bible Studies
(Table I – 22 to 25)
_____ estimate percentage of your congregation engaged in small
groups
Setting GOALS:
Number of small groups,
SS classes, Bible Studies:
2012
________
2013
________
2014
________
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RISK-TAKING MISSION AND SERVICE
“Truly I tell you, just as you did it to one of the least of these who are members of my
family, you did it to me.” (Matthew 25:40)
1.
What is your congregation’s plan for equipping people to share the faith?
2.
With what community outreach ministries is your congregation involved?
3.
How has this mission initiative or outreach ministry changed your congregation?
4.
What future outreach ministries is your congregation planning?
5.
What else, if anything, might be helpful in understanding the pastor’s and
congregation’s effectiveness in the area of Risk-Taking Mission and Service?
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Risk Taking Mission and Service
Supporting Statistics
_____ number of outside groups invited to use your facility
_____ number of persons who have served in community mission in
the past year
_____ number of persons who have been sent forth on mission trips
(Table I – 30 to 31)
_____ number of persons who have served in community outreach
(Table I – 32 to 35)
Setting GOALS:
2012
2013
2014
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Number of people from the congregation engaged in
local, national, and international
mission and outreach activities:
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Extravagant Generosity
“You will be enriched in every way for your great generosity.”
(2 Corinthians 9:11)
1.
What are the signs that your congregation’s generosity has
increased/decreased?
2.
How does your congregation teach the concept of “Shared Giving” and
tithing?
3.
What ministries in your congregation are exciting people to give
generously?
4.
What plans is your congregation making for future ministry funding?
5.
What else, if anything, might be helpful in understanding the pastor’s
and congregation’s effectiveness in the area of Extravagant Generosity?
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Extravagant Generosity
Supporting Statistics
_____ Dollars paid in 2010 for Shared Giving Askings – both conference (Table II 40b)
and district (Table II 41b)
_____ Percent paid in 2010 for Conference Shared Giving Askings
______ Percent District Askings
______ total amount of 2010 spending that supported mission work beyond
apportionments – both United Methodist and non United Methodist (add
Table II lines 42 through 50)
_____ percentage of yearly spending allocated to staff salaries
_____ percentage of 2010 budget supported by interest from church held funds
Setting GOALS:
Total giving to apportionments
and other missions combined:
2012
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2013
________
2014
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(projected sum of Table II 40b, 41b, 42 through 50)
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Covenant for Continuing Formation
• Identify Goals in the Five Practices
• Agree upon with SPRC/Pastor and present to
DS at Consultation.
• Identify what goals will be reported to Church
Conference Omnibus form (Line 3.)
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The Goal-Setting Card for
Each Congregation
People and Ministry
Disciples worship
Average worship attendance
Disciples make new disciples
Number of people who joined by profession of
faith
Disciples engage in growing as a
disciple
Number of small groups, Sunday school
classes and Bible studies.
Disciples engage in mission
Number of people from the congregation
engaged in local, national and international
mission/outreach activities
Disciples give to mission
The total amount given by local church to
other organizations for support of benevolent
and charitable ministries (this amount includes
apportionments paid and support for all United
Methodist and non-United Methodist
organizations active in work such as
advocacy, education, health, justice, mercy,
outreach, and welfare anywhere in the world)
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2009
2010
2012
2013
2014
2015
VitalSignsUMC.org
• www.vitalsignsumc.org
• DASHBOARD – Allows congregations to track progress
towards their goals for health and vitality.
o Congregations receive a weekly email to record their
metrics.
o Weekly recording of data that will be directly linked to
GCFA.
o Everyone in the connection can view data.
o There will be a place for congregations to share
weekly success stories via the website.
o Leaders can celebrate milestones for the congregation
regularly!
Your church’s health and vitality
Depends on YOU!
• Church vitality can not happen without YOU!
o Acts 2 – The outpouring of the Holy Spirit and the birth of
the Church.
o 1 Corinthians 12 – The healthy church is one body and it is
the body of Christ.
o Ephesians 4:10-13 – Christ has gifted the church through a
variety of gifts.
o Galatians 3:28 – All are welcome in the body of Christ.
o Luke 10:25-37 – We are called to be like the Good
Samaritan.
o Micah 6:8 – Righteousness and justice are the expectation
for God’s people.
o Luke 4:17-21 – Jesus announces his ministry, which is a
calling for the body of Christ TODAY!
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