A Plan for Building a Robust Interfaith Cooperative

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A Plan for Building a Robust Interfaith
Cooperative
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Table of Contents
Building Blocks 3 Organization Chart 4 Leadership
Council 5 Membership Committee 6 Strategic
Planning Committee 7 Governance
Committee 8 Resource Development
Committee 9 Board of Directors 10 Direct Service
Ministry 11 Social Justice Ministry 12 Race
Culture Ministry 13 Faith Spirituality 14 Suppor
t Services Ministry 15 Appendix 16 Member
Congregations 17 Leadership Council
Attendees 19 Strategic Planning
Information 21 Ministry Teams Planning
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Building Blocks
Mission Vision Goals Organization 40
years Experience
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Leadership Council Chair Dr. David Freeman

• Responsibilities
• Staffs Standing Committees and Board of Directors
• Approves Strategic Plan
• Approves Annual Plan
• Manages subordinate organizational elements
• Next 6-9 months tasks/schedule

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Membership Committee Chair Thomas Grinder
Responsibilities Help member congregations grow
their capacity to perform outreach
ministries. Next 6-9 months tasks/schedule
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Strategic Planning Committee Chair Doug Seay
Responsibilities Produce and maintain a 5 year
strategic plan - See the appendix for current
strategic planning information and strategic
planning process from the website. Next 6-9
months tasks/schedules
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Governance Committee Chair Bryan Dodson
Responsibilities Produce and maintain policies,
procedures and other documents needed to govern
the cooperative Next 6-9 months tasks/schedules
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Resource Development Committee Chair TBS
Responsibilities Develop the financial resources
needed to operate the cooperative other than that
provided by the faith community - that being the
responsibility of the Membership Committee. Next
6-9 months tasks/schedules
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Board of Directors Chair Rev Alice Syltie
(acting)
Responsibilities Develop and manage the annual
plan Next 6-9 months tasks/schedules
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Direct Service Ministry Chair TBS (To Be
Supplied)
Responsibilities Develop and manage the directs
service element of the annual plan Next 6-9
months tasks/schedules See the appendix for the
inputs from the member congregations and the
roadmaps from the First Stop, FOODLine and
Medical Transportation.
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Social Justice Ministry Chair Dr. Krslyen
McGinnis ?
Responsibilities Develop and manage the social
justice element of the annual plan Next 6-9
months tasks/schedules See the appendix for the
inputs from the member congregations and the
roadmaps from the Faith Coalition for Poverty and
Public Policy.
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Race Culture Ministry Chair Dr. Kenneth
Anderson ?
Responsibilities Develop and manage the race and
culture element of the annual plan Next 6-9
months tasks/schedules See the appendix for the
inputs from the member congregations and the
roadmaps from the Racial Harmony Coalition.
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Faith Spirituality Ministry Chair TBS
Responsibilities Develop and manage the faith
spirituality element of the annual plan Next 6-9
months tasks/schedules See the appendix for the
inputs from the member congregations and the
roadmaps from the existing ministry teams e.g.
One Huntsville, Interfaith Dialogue on the Road,
Interfaith Summit, Hometown Pilgrimage and Day of
Service and Unity.
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Support Services Ministry Chair Chuck Vedane ?
Responsibilities Develop, market and manage the
execution of the annual plan Next 6-9 months
tasks/schedules
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Appendix
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Member Congregations The congregations designated
member and affiliate are considered members
through 2009. The Membership Committee will use
the application form to secure their membership
for 2010.
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Member Congregations The congregations designated
member and affiliate are considered members
through 2009. The Membership Committee will use
the application form to secure their membership
for 2010.
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Persons Attending Council Development
Meetings All of the people on this list should be
candidates for staffing the standing committees
and ministry teams. Many of them will no doubt be
asked to represent their congregations on the
leadership council.
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Persons Attending Council Development Meetings
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Direct Service Congregation Inputs and Ministry
Roadmaps
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Member Congregation Planning Input for 2010
Cooperative Ministry Planning 1. Congregation
First United Methodist Church 2. Our
congregation views the following as significant
needs in the community that the faith community
should and can be addressing a. Direct Service
Needs (Generally refers to food, shelter,
tutoring, transportation etc) First UMC
considers supporting our schools to be a
significant need particularly those in the
communitys poverty areas. We are involved in
providing support our Children First
ministry. We are currently working with Trinity
UMC, TBS congregations and would like to expand
that among other members of the cooperative and
beyond.
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Social Justice Congregation Inputs and Ministry
Roadmaps
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Member Congregation Planning Input for 2010
Cooperative Ministry Planning 1. Congregation
St. John the Baptist Catholic 2. Our
congregation views the following as significant
needs in the community that the faith community
should and can be addressing b. Social Justice
Needs (Generally refers to correcting the causes
of the above and deals with public policies e.g.
health care, tax policies, education policies,
etc.) St. John the Baptist Catholic and other
Catholic churches in the area have initiated an
effort to educate our congregations on the
relationship of faith and justice. The program is
called JustFaith and consists of 30 weekly
sessions. Following is a short description of the
program. JustFaith is an extensive,
conversion-based process that provides a context
in which participants cab grow in their
commitment to care for the vulnerable and to
become advocates for justice. This program serves
to strengthen the growing commitment of churches
to be agents of social transformation, mercy and
compassion. The elements of the program are
weekly meetings, retreats and practical hands on
experiences to have face-to-face contact with
people living on the margins of society and to
provide an out of classroom experience. See the
www.justfaith.org , or call 502.429.0865 or
contact Christina Semmens, 256-603-0225,
csemmens_at_stjohnbchurch.org for more information
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Member Congregation Planning Input for 2010
Cooperative Ministry Planning 1. Congregation
Latham UMC NE District Church Society
Ministry Team 2. Our congregation views the
following as significant needs in the community
that the faith community should and can be
addressing b. Social Justice Needs (Generally
refers to correcting the causes of the above and
deals with public policies e.g. health care, tax
policies, education policies, etc.) Our
congregation (Latham UMC) and the NE District
Church and Society Ministry Team are highly
concerned and have been working social justice
reforms in several areas e.g. constitution and
tax reform, predatory lending practices, and
others. In 1974 member congregations developed a
set of recommendations for the 1975 legislative
session. We recommend that this activity be
repeated for the 2010 legislative session. The
document could be provided to the members of the
cooperative for their discussion and potential
endorsement.
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Race and Culture Congregation Inputs and Ministry
Roadmaps
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Faith Spirituality Congregation Inputs and
Ministry Roadmaps
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This is our current process and timeline. The
ministry groups inputs are developed using the
roadmap planning tool and the congregation inputs
are developed using an input form recently handed
out during the council development meetings. Both
instruments are on the web under Forms.
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Most congregations fiscal year is January to
December. Thus, many of them start their
budgeting process in the third quarter. To meet
the members budgeting cycle the cooperative
budget needs to be prepared by June. The Support
Services ministry team will provide guidelines
for making this earlier time.
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• Forms
• The following forms are grouped together for
  convenience. They are not in a sequence of usage.
  The forms are
• Member Application - see website
• Member Congregation Annual Planning Input - see
  website
• Annual Planning Roadmap - see website

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