UCR Community Meeting Notes, October 14, 2018
Oct 25, 2018
UCR Community Meeting Notes, October 14, 2018
WHAT ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT QUALITIES FOR THE NEXT MINISTER?
- Enthusiasm
- Effective speaker – spontaneous, well-prepared, etc.
- Metaphysical interpretation/real life practical application of the lesson for today and the week ahead.
- Younger person with children, to attract younger crowd
- Dealing effectively and listening to many different points of view
- Least important – administrative!
- Sense of belonging
- Outreach, to grow ministry size
- Aware of technical presence
- Good presenter
- Leadership
- An equipping minister
- Approachable/available
- Ask candidate what their passion/strength is
- Maintain confidentiality
- Personality – outgoing – likes people
- Flexibility
- Strong immunity – healthy
- Empathetic – meet people where they are
- Effective speaker, presenter – relatable to daily life
- Effective communicator, including new technology skills
- (Significant Other that cooks)
- Effective leader – team player (vision planning is for the board)
- Pastoral care, counseling – can be delegated, but if so, then must be certified to reduce UCR liability
- Magnetic personality – attract people
- Celebrity personality – charismatic
- Relates to younger generation
- Presenter, Interpersonal Communication, Administration, Visionary, Leadership
WHAT SHOULD UCR ACCOMPLISH IN THE NEXT 3-5 YEARS?
- Build up community to involve more diverse age groups.
- Programming to attract younger congregants.
- Relationship-building groups
- Put out on live stream a variety of groups available
- Bring in scheduled guest speakers from UWM, etc – to give senior minister a break more often
- Congregation access to specifics in contract—how many guest speakers, scheduled vacations, conferences, volunteer time, sabbatical or spiritual retreat, etc., so it is not all a surprise “gone again for 2 weeks”.
- Sustainable building property
- Increased prosperity
- Increase membership
- Multiple generations
- Financial stability – realistic
- Mission/vision current – review it periodically
- Recruit big attraction
- Better outreach
- Gender balance on board
- Reconsider land footprint – reduce land?
- Systemic GLUR /day prayer; participation visible in UWM community
- Advertise facility use and rental
- Minister has community/academic outreach
- Media presence (not in the Gazette)
- Free coverage
- Social media ads participation
- Vacation bible school
- More attractive to young families
- Pave parking lot
- Younger congregation
- Strong youth program so parents can fill their own bucket
- Grow the congregation’s knowledge base – layman classes, SEE classes, etc.
- Increase attendance to UCR activities (e.g. Prayerathon, guest speakers, craft shows, social activities)
- Have events and promote them outside UCR
- More people to spread the volunteer workload
- Outreach – improve name recognition – often confused with Unitarians
- Get information from visitors – have them leave it in the pew or basket or something so we get their
feedback
- Ask people why they haven’t come back. Invite them to come 3 times before they change their mind.
- Keep a YouTube presence so people can check us out ahead of time.
- Grow our congregation, we need a dynamic leader who we can grow our visions with together
- A leader who attracts new people
- How to make it “stick”, keep people around–retention is important!
- A male energy would be nice for a change (male minister)
- Would like the Board to share their visions with congregation first, to give us some direction
Like this:
Like Loading...