I have found several online tools that increase my productivity and are quite helpful in my role as pastor. One of them is: Highrise Highrise is a product of 37 signals who also has a quality blog – Signal vs. Noise. From the Highrise website: The answer to the avalanche So many people. So many […]
I have found several online tools that increase my productivity and are quite helpful in my role as pastor. One of them is: Jott.com Jott is an online service that is linked to a mobile phone. Jott is basically a short transcription service. You speed dial a number, choose a person from a list, and […]
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Application – Worship Roundtable: Part 3
So what does all this conversation about worship mean? Good question. I have heard conversations floating around at Resurrection around this question: How is a better worship experience facilitated for people in their 20’s and early 30’s? There has been conversation about a new worship service, exploring a new format for one of the existing […]
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Questions – Worship Roundtable: Part 2
On May 17, Sally Morgenthaler facilitated a conversation with some of the staff at Resurrection about what 21st century worship looks like. I have posted my notes in PDF formate here – Notes – Worship Roundtable. It was a good day to step back and reflect on what it means to gather in worship. With the […]
Two weeks ago, I asked What are the distinctive marks of worship in the Wesleyan tradition? Thanks to each of you who commented and responded on that post. That post was in preparation for a conversation of which I was a part that took place about worship at Resurrection and what it might look like […]
Yesterday afternoon, a significant time was spent on the discussion of the approval of the budget for 2008. The discussion was around the support of the United Methodist institutions of higher education in Kansas West – Southwestern College and Kansas Wesleyan University. There has not been significant monetary support for any of the United Methodist […]
Steve Rankin was elected as a delegate to Jurisdictional Conference.
As part of the strategic plan to revitalize existing Kansas Churches a report was given about two areas where the Annual Conference is working to make progress. Church Transformation Survey A Church Transformation Survey was sent out to congregations of the Annual Conference. The hope is that this continued process will give us the ability […]
The laity have completed their elections for delegates to General, Jurisdictional and Alternates. I did not get the names of the laity who have been elected. There may be an announcement later… The final clergy delegate to General Conference was elected on this ballot. Jurisdictional and Alternates are yet to be decided. Clergy elected as […]
The Certified Lay Minister Program of the Kansas Area in Partnership with the Center for Church Leadership and Kansas Wesleyan University passed. The training will include 12 college hours taken over three to four years. I think that this program will be a good one of revitalization of congregations in providing for the leadership for […]
Ballot 2 Laity – none elected Clergy – none elected Ballot 3 Laity – Mollie Haberer Clergy – Pat Ault-Duell and A. Mark Conard
After the announcement of the first round of General Conference balloting, and the second round of balloting the next order of business at the plenary session was a Resolution to Enter a Capital Campaign from the Kansas West Conference Focus Team. A representative from Tyler Associates presented results of a feasibility study with a recommendation […]
Rev. Andrew Conard 