Unified Governance Working Group Presentation Rev. Dr. Bernard Wilson, Chair

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Unified Governance Working Group
PresentationRev. Dr. Bernard Wilson, Chair

• STATUS OF ACTIVITY
• Executive Council
• Spring 2010

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Introduction

• UGov Members here with us today
• Task today update on what the working group has
  done is doing
• Process weve been tasked from General Synod and
  EC bring a proposal
• for unified governance by the fall meetings
• (for discussion and input), in the timeframe
  given to us
• Review Plan of Action Synod resolution

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WHAT WE HAVE DONE

• Headlines of the December meeting
• created a Dialogue Discernment
• process
• drafted the related materials

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ACCOMPLISHMENTS 1. Gathered an extraordinary
diversity of the church in a room with good will
and shared purpose, focused on the task at
hand 2. Members have all agreed to serve on
various task groups 3. Invited Dialogue and
Discernment sessions are receiving and
beginning to process data observing that people
are asking questions and feeling safe to
critique, comment, and offer constructive ideas
for the working group 4. Created a great (and
growing) website for transparency
www.ucc.org/governance
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Accomplishments

• Monthly working group teleconferences
• ? listen to what is coming in from dialogue
  discernments
• ? make decisions on how best to work with input
  that is coming in
• DYNAMIC LIVING PROCESS
• ? Things are happening
• ? on schedule
• ? with respect
• We move forward step back when we need to

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CHALLENGES

• Time frame to accomplish the POA M
• Continuing request for a diagram to compare the
  current structure and new proposal
• ? No proposal to diagram yet.
• ? We are in the discernment period of this
  journey.
• ? We are in a Dynamic Living Process.
• The process will inform the proposal that is yet
  to be created in the July
• and Sept meetings of the working group
• Various understandings of transparency
• Tricky to take all the complexities of this
  process to make it meaningful and useful there
  are many lenses entry points into this process
  people understand its meaning very differently.
• We dont know what will be, because we are still
  
• discerning what will be

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What We Need From You

• Prayerfully and faithfully uphold the process and
  the Working Group!
• Share our living dynamic process!
• ? We are in discernment
• ? We are not taking GFT II and simply
  re-working it
• Although Synod does tell us to be mindful of GFT
  IIs core principles
• ? Something new is being created, drawing from
  the dialogue and discernment process
• Communicate
• Help get word out about the website
• The Working Group is working in a diligent and
  trustworthy fashion. Reassure the circles of the
  church that you serve and network
• TRUST! TRUST! TRUST!