Committee on Fellowship Ministry
Dave Johnson, chair
What does your CFM do? Briefly, it is a group that serves the Fellowship’s overall ministry and does what it can to strengthen it. Members of CFM meet monthly and depend on their own observations plus input from other Members and Friends to help accomplish their work.
What can you do? Talk to any CFM member about what you especially like, and share constructive suggestions for improvement: Alan Berman; Gwyneth Bowman; Peggy Cossolias; David Johnson, chair; Lois Pettinger; Paul Larson
The Committee on Fellowship Ministry (CFM) is a significant expression of shared ministry. Through the CFM the laity takes its share of the responsibility for the success of the overall ministry of the Fellowship. The CFM will be:
- friendly evaluators for the congregation, committees, staff and minister. They will encourage actions and activities that merit reinforcement, and suggest improvement or cessation of actions and activities that seem to be counterproductive. This includes working with the Board on an annual all-fellowship assessment survey and assisting the minister in setting annual goals.
- facilitators of communication between the congregation and the minister.
- educators for better understanding the roles of the congregation, committees, staff and minister.
- supporters ready to listen or even seek out observations of congregation-life from the congregation, committees, staff and minister.
- advocators, when requested or deemed necessary, for staff and the minister.
- internal consultants for the Fellowship, serving to help resolve concerns. The process for resolution will be to follow the "Conflict Resolutions Guidelines".
Brochures:
CFM 3-panel brochure
Recent Nitty Gritty Committee Workshop:
Objectives & Agenda
Brainstorm Results
Newsletter columns (PDF):
Mar 2008: "Interesting Times"
Feb 2008: Special Thanks to Jan Waitt & Venita Varga; Leadership Education Opportunity: Process Observation and Evaluation
Dec 2007: Compassionate Communication Workshop a Great Success
Nov 2007: Total Ministry
Oct 2007
Apr 2007
Feb 2007
Dec 2006
Nov 2006
Oct 2006
Sep 2006
Aug 2006