Committee Minutes

April 4, 2008

Members in attendance: Shirley Luhmann, Rev. Christina Berry, Rev. Herb Rotunda, Rev. Don Crissinger-Clark

Members not attending: Ted Miller, Rev. Bill Kleymann, Duane Scherbing, Heidi Stauffenecker, Rev. Jim Krapf, Charles Moore, Rev. Ed Morgan and Rev. Tim Sutton

Ex-Officio Attenders: Rev. Sue Coller

Actions Taken:

*Recaps of the CG&D visits to churches have been mailed giving churches 30 days to make any corrections before it becomes part of their permanent record at Presbytery. Don will get to Shirley the Lake Crystal recap to send out.

*Discussion regarding feedback about the NCD presentation at the Presbytery meeting was good and there is a lot of curiosity and interest. Cluster meetings have been set up for the initial meetings.

*Letter will be drafted to the Reading church and Shirley will do a phone call follow-up. Chairperson will be contacting all churches who attend the cluster NCD meetings to follow-up.

*Currently there are 6 trained NCD coaches and there will possibly be more needed. This will be revisited as more churches sign up.

*A list will be developed and posted on the website of people within the Presbytery who would be available to lead workshops, etc.

*Approved funds from 3151 for Sue to attend NCD Coach 2 training and for Don to attend NCD Coach 1 training at ChurchSmart

*Approved for Don & Jim to attend the next Mentor Conference

*Sue gave an update on the NCD churches. Discussed possibly hosting Presbytery-wide events/conferences/workshops.

*Gave a recap of the “Committee Mash” progress

*Sue, Don & Jim attended the Jackson Session meeting and gave a recap. Don will initiate follow-up.

*Discussed the disbursement of the Sartell sale funds. CG&D will develop the guidelines to apply for grant funds at the July meeting. What types of evaluation is needed? What is criteria and timeline? Possibly develop Community Needs Assessment. What will be used for capacity building? What type of investment from the churches will be required? Discussed possibly only having grants awarded on a yearly basis in the fall for the next year.

*Approved for Christina to attend “Followers to Leaders” workshop through ChurchSmart on 5/19.

Next meeting July 26, 2008 from 10-2