The Emerging Unified Church of Carlisle
Overview of Transition Team Meeting
September 25, 2012
On Tuesday, September 25, 2012, the Transition
Team conducted its eighth meeting. Initially, the Transition Team evaluated
Sunday’s Open Congregational Meeting.
The format and amount of time devoted to questions received high
grades. Most felt that the attendees
left with a good feeling in their hearts.
Reports were received from all of the
Focus Groups which number fourteen with ninety-two members. Soon, you can expect to find available at all
three campuses the written publications of each campus. Soon, you will find that the webpages of the
three campuses will have links directly to the other two and a link to a
transitional webpage. Soon you will
begin to see information identifying the process to name the church. ALL of us will have opportunities to suggest
names and ALL will be able to vote on November 18 for the new name. Absentee accommodations will be met, and the
new name will be first presented on December 2.
Soon you will receive an insert to sign up for the new unified prayer
chain.
Some of our work is very tedious,
legalistic, and driven by conference, borough and state rules and
regulations. For example, the Incorporation
Focus Group will be reviewing all of the existing deeds of which there are
many. The Administrative Structure Focus
Group is reading and using a book in its pursuit to identify the best
administrative framework on which to build our new church and additionally is
using Dennis Otto as a resource. The
Child Care Focus Group has been studying its options in order to maintain the
two programs for preschool children and will be making its recommendation at
our next meeting. Meanwhile the Physical
Assets Focus Group has been reviewing all of the recent inventories at the
three campuses, preparing a standardized inventory sheet and identifying
decisions which will have to be made about a lot of stuff – like many
pianos. Soon, the Worship Focus Group
will be discussing Sunday worship schedules and types of worship styles and
then making recommendations to the Transition Team.
From the outset of our work, the
Transition Team has been fully supported and undergirded with prayers. We appreciate the Prayer Team which weekly
prays specifically for us. We appreciate that the Transition Team remains a
weekly prayer concern on our unified prayer sheet. We appreciate that others have begun praying
for us, too. The prayer group at St.
Patrick’s has just added us to their prayer list. We know the power and strength of prayers and
have now seen it firsthand as this Transition Team has really come
together. We want all of you to know
that we have been praying for all of you, too.
We know that this work isn’t easy.
We know that feelings and emotions can run high. We know that the future – our future together
as one – can be frightening. God wants
all of us to be together and we are fully committed to making it work every
Sunday from 8 to noon and the rest of the week, too.
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, Sec
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 Thursday, Oct. 11, at 6:30 pm.
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