The Emerging Unified Church of Carlisle
Overview of Transition Team Meeting
August 28, 2012
On Thursday, August 28, 2012, the
Transition Team conducted its sixth meeting.
We have begun to hear some questions regarding our progress or lack
thereof. All of you have probably heard,
“Rome wasn’t built in a day.” And we are
going to have to take some time to unify our churches and make it the very best
house of worship which we can imagine it to be.
The unifying of our three downtown
United Methodist churches into one unified church has not happened before in
our neck of the woods. While the Co::Lab
provided us with a basic framework within which to operate, we have been
developing the reporting mechanisms and structure with which to operate
efficiently and productively. For some
of us, we have had to adjust the way that we typically have functioned as we
grapple with the significance of new terms, a multitude of tasks, new accountability
procedures and ever-occurring deadlines.
We strongly believe that communications
is extremely important – it is one of our top priorities. We have provided an
overview of every Transition Team meeting and will continue to do so. As the secretary of the Transition Team, I
have been charged with recording the minutes of each meeting and conveying the
major events of each meeting to all of you through these Overviews. The minutes are
received by every Transition Team member, and copies of the Overviews are provided to all of our
members at each of our three campuses.
To be as succinct as possible about Tuesday’s meeting,
I would share that I now feel that the Transition Team has in place everything
that we will need to move forward. If we
were building a football stadium and before one shovel of dirt was able to be moved
to erect the stadium, the basic infrastructure to support such construction
would have to be in place.
Infrastructure typically refers to the roads, water supply, sewers,
electrical grids and telecommunications needed to support a stadium filled with
60,000 fans.
For
us, the infrastructure for us to operate as a Transition Team has been the
creation of Focus Group Status Reports, Transition Team Status Reports, A
Handbook of Roles and Responsibilities for Transition Team and Focus Group
members and a new calendar for meeting dates and reporting dates. A member said that after our work has been
completed other churches who decide to unify can use these documents and
reporting tools for their work. We had
to create them first! Our working
infrastructure is now complete!
July 1, 2013, remains the day when our church will officially begin to
operate under one roof, and we will finally be one church. Our first unified
service in our transitional facility will occur on Sunday, July7, 2013.
Transition Team
Pastoral Team Allison First Grace
Jim
VanZandt, Chair Ron Axsom Dennis
Downey, Co-chair Colleen Kulp
Bishop
Neil Irons Ann Cook Tracy
Horgan Kerm Leitner,
Secretary
Mira
Hewlett Jeff Harpel Debbie
Washinger Randy Noaker
Susan
Stewart Joanne Reynolds Lois Weibley Dianne
Otto
Dennis
Keller, District Superintendent
Our next scheduled meeting is Thurs.,
September 13, at 6:30 pm.
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