Yesterday was a great day in the life of EUMC and Tim Schulte. Following worship we approved Tim as a candidate for ministry. Tim will now go under the direction of the District Committee on Ministry and proceed with plans to become a “Licensed Local Pastor”. Once licensed, Tim will be empowered to serve the [...]
Archive for the ‘Organizing for Growth’ Category
David Hyatt, our consultant for the Healthy Church Initiative, joined the Leadership Team for their monthly meeting yesterday. David shared with us that 27 more churches will be entering the HCI process this year. Since David is the coordinator for the program, he is obviously very busy. We are doing well in our process, having [...]
State of the Church
Posted: September 3, 2010 in Building for the Future, Healthy Church Initiative, Organizing for GrowthI have inserted a copy of a letter that everyone will be receiving in the next few days. State_of_the_church_sept_10_edited[1]
As part of the Missouri Annual Conference’s committment to creating healthy and fruitful congregations, we changed the basic leadership structure of EUMC at the recent Church Conference. Using churches like Church of the Shepherd (St. Charles) and Sunrise UMC (O’Fallon) as models, the new structure is a simplified organization that allows for growth and adjustment [...]
I am thrilled that the Office of Congregational Excellence has scheduled us for a consultation weekend in January of 2010. Because of the demand for these consultations, I had originally told the Ad. Council that fall of 2010 would be the earliest we could expect a consultation. Because of what we have going on with [...]
Before I delve too deeply into the specifics of an organizational structure, let me share one of my experiences that made me all too aware that something needed to change. I still remember sitting in an Administrative Council meeting in Shiner, Texas listening to a very important discussion. This discussion lasted 45 minutes (I timed [...]
Good news! After writing the last post in the Organizing for Growth category, I had a talk with our District Superintendent (DS) Kurt Schuermann and asked him to help get us in set up for a Healthy Church Initiative (HCI) Consultation. With all that is happening, especially the new building, I thought we were reaching [...]
Bishop Schnase arrived in Missouri in 2004 with a commitment to alter the tragectory of the Conference. (In 2008 United Methodist’s marked 40 years of declining membership, Missouri followed the trend.) At the Annual Conference in 2009 Missouri celebrated an increase in membership, and most importantly, attendance, so Bishop Schnase’s leadership is bearing fruit. A [...]
There have been hundreds of books written on growing and developing churches over the past twenty years. Like all book categories, some of the books are better than others. I have learned a great deal from the authors of these books (often pastors who have led growing churches) and have implemented many of their ideas [...]
