| November 2008
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Installation of new Pastor at Saron. |
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Where we've been... |
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| October 2008
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Called Pastor considers and
accepts call; farewell to Pastor Pat.
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| September 2008
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The congregation votes on the
call committees recommendation. The call committee has received names of Pastors interested in coming to Saron. They have completed initial phone interviews and one face to face interview and will be doing a second face to face interview this month. We hope to have more to tell you all soon. |
| August 2008 | Pastoral candidates' names will
be received and interviewed by the Call Committee. Pastor
Pat will assist with process. If interest exists, an
additional workshop on spiritual care. The call committee has received names of Pastors interested in coming to Saron. We have done initial phone interviews with the candidates and will be doing face to face interviews next week. We hope to have more to tell you all soon. |
| July 2008 |
The Call Committee is working on the Congregational Profile; will share it with the congregation at adult forum and in newsletter. Our Congregational profile was sent to Pastor Todd Iverson at the Synod office and now we wait to receive names of Pastors who are interested in coming to Ashland. We hope to receive three names and conduct interviews during August. We hope to be able to call a congregational meeting in early September to get approval from the congregation to call a Pastor. It still may take one to two months before the new Pastor could come as he/she has time to decide and then must give his current Church notice. So hopefully we will have a new Pastor by November. |
| June 2008 | The Call Committee is working on the Congregational Profile; will share it with the congregation at adult forum and in newsletter. |
| May 2008 | The Call Committee will complete the Congregational Profile; and share it with the congregation at adult forum and in newsletter. |
| April 2008 | The church council will select a
6 member Call Committee from responsible members who have also
participated in both the Healthy Congregation's workshops and
the Strategic Planning events. The call committee has met four times already. Two of our meetings have been with the Bishop’s Assistant Pastor Todd Iverson. We are working on the Congregational Profile. A rough draft was reviewed Monday evening. |
| March 2008 | Church staff will
work on a behavioral covenant for themselves; Church council
will begin work on a behavioral as a group. Engage approximately
60 members in a series of 2 Strategic Planning Events; 6 year
plan. We will begin on this project sometime in February. We met with the Bishop's Assistant Pastor and had a great group. council members went to a leadership workshop, On April 15th we will be doing Healthy Leaders training. We are scheduling 2 Strategic Planning events for congregational members to be a part of on April 20th & April 23rd. Our executive team will be picking the Call Committee. Goal: a diverse dream team, who will represent the whole community and with prayerful reflection begin the process of finding a new shepherd for Saron |
| February 2008 | Engage 30
members/leaders (made up of elected leaders as well as other
leaders who are investing of themselves in carrying forward the
ministries of Saron) in 2-3 Healthy congregations workshops. We have a "Training Healthy Leaders" Workshop on February 19th here at Saron. Also, a Council Leadership Training in Hayward on March 15th. |
| January 2008 | Have membership rolls
done, start Project Newsletter/e-mail/webpage. We are almost finished with a master list of all possible members and then we will be contacting the members that we haven't seen in a long time or have moved away to see if they still consider Saron their home. The Saronews has been e-mailed to some members and the webpage is up and going. |
| December 2007 | Slow down to encourage all members to healthfully celebrate Christmas and holidays; recruit full participation in important Healthy Congregations workshops and Strategic Planning Events scheduled between February and April. |
| November 2007 | Stewardship and gift giving awareness month. Getting started on current accurate membership project. |
| October 2007 | Get all committees, council chairs, leaders working on budget and awareness of financial needs; put up Dreams for Saron sheets in coffee room; Congregation meeting. |
| September 2007 | Formal and informal member processing of understanding and feelings related to Pastor Jims resignation; make provisions for interim staffing for all the fall start ups; create a "Transition Team"; put interim/transition process timeline in October newsletter. |