Carlisle United Methodist Church
Overview of Transition Team Meeting
January 10, 2013
On Thursday, January 10, 2013, the Transition
Team met for the fourteenth time. Plans
were finalized for the election of each church’s three representatives to the Leadership
Council. This will be conducted at
church conferences on February 3 at the following times/locations: 10:15 am at
First; 12:15 pm at Allison; and 3:00 pm at Grace. The deadline for applying is January 20. The Transition Team voted
to ALLOW relatives of current and future staff members of our three churches TO
APPLY FOR THE LEADERSHIP COUNCIL FOR THE CARLISLE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH. If
relatives of staff are elected to Council they will be required to recuse
themselves from conversations/decisions regarding issues that will involve said
relative. The balloting process on February 3 will mirror what is used at
Conference and will require 75% of the voting members to gain the
position. The newly elected Leadership
Council will be introduced the following Sunday at a service starting at 3 pm
at Grace to celebrate our new name and begin to learn more about our new
church.
Members of Allison will be voting on January 20 to approve the
sale of their building to Dickinson College for 1.7 million dollars over a
period of 4.5 years with no interest. Allison
and Dickinson will mutually develop a list of fixtures that Allison may
remove. Dickinson wants the pews to
remain and the kitchen. Following the
last service on June 30, adequate time will be provided to remove personal
property and dismantle the organ which Dickinson was not interested in
purchasing.
Starting in March, the churches’ three monthly newsletters will
look very similar when they will begin to use a similar format while still
highlighting their own activities. The
first unified newsletter will appear in July.
Work is underway and, hopefully, a new logo will be introduced at the February
10 service.
The Transitional Facility Focus Group will be tackling the thorny issue
of parking and transportation at its next meeting. All of the known activities which occur
Monday through Saturday have already been slotted into Grace’s existing spaces.
In the spring, SERVE will be planning some disaster relief
projects. They have embraced Pastor
Mira’s statement, “People love it when a church shows up.” And that, my friends, is what this is all
about – our new church showing up, highly visible throughout Carlisle. Our name says it – we are Carlisle. All of our hopes, dreams, actions and work
compel us to show up. We are the
CARLISLE United Methodist Church.
Transition
Team
Pastoral Team Allison First Grace
Jim
VanZandt, Chair Ron Axsom Tracy Horgan Colleen
Kulp
Mira
Hewlett Ann Cook Debra
Washinger Kerm
Leitner, Secretary
Susan
Stewart Jeff Harpel Lois Weibley Randy
Noaker
Dennis
Keller, DS Joanne Reynolds Dianne Otto
Our
next meeting is Thursday, February 14.
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