Meeting Notes March 5, 2013

Greetings Again Friends!

Here are some of the highlights from our March meeting:

 
 

As a follow up to our redevelopment of CDC Work, membership of the subcommittees was revised as follows:

·         Learn and Lead: Jim Burgess and Susan Carpenter Co Chairs, members Jane Jellison, Catherine Thenault and Joel Gardner

·         Grants: Jacky Kirby Chair, members  Dennis Bucco, Kevin Lloyd, Charles Cowen, Pam Gregory

 

The subcommittees will work between CDC meetings and present reports to the CDC at requested intervals.

Reports were received from those subcommittees:

Jacky Kirby presented the report from the grant subcommittee along with their recommendations on several proposals from parishes and missions. The CDC considered their proposals and recommendatoins and made the decisions to request full applications from the following"

Mission Churches:

Holy Spirit, Charlestown, 

 Parishes:

Trinity Church, Newport  

Emmanuel Cumberland

From the Learn & Lead Subcommittee:  

Contacts have been made with potential keynote speakers.   Workshop presenters are being put in place.  The date and location have been confirmed as June first at St Mary’s Church in Portsmouth. 

Next steps, finalizing the remainder of workshop facilitators, hospitality for the day, publicity, and finalizing the keynote speaker.  These will be delegated to the subcommittee.

 A communication was received from the 2015 Task Force regarding The Spiritual Renewal Survey that has been put forth by the task force to help parishes take inventory of their core spiritual disciplines. Subsequent  discussion centered around the possibility of using this as a congregational development tool and publicizing this use to the churches in the diocese.  This will be discussed further at a future meeting.

Please watch for further updates in the coming weeks!

Peace

Joel Gardner