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This is the development site for efforts to develop and ratify a strategic plan for the Missouri Mid-South Conference. On it you will find important documents about the development process, a time line of the elements in the process, and opportunities to comment about the plan and to respond to others in a conversation of the Conference.
Documents
Here are links to pdf's of the documents that we have used to start from in building the process as well as documents which the Working Group has generated in the effort. Just click on the title to link to the document itself. Habakkuk 223 Call Statement: This is the document that first outlined the mandate for the Strategic Planning Working Group and its link to the work of the Personnel Committee and the Staffing Working Group. Habakkuk Roster: This is the roster of the committee and the two working groups Survey: This is the survey which was distributed at each of the Association Meetings in May and June of 2008 as well as to the Women's Retreat and some other Conference activities. In addition there are a couple of documents that were a part of the search process for a Conference Minister which are useful for understanding the context out of which this process evolved. They are the Self-Study and the June 10 Summit recap. Newly added is the document presented at FaithWorks on the Priority Areas with a notation about the number of "votes" each received on the tally wall.
Time Line
Here is a list of the events in the development of the Strategic Plan. April 12, 2008: The first meeting of the Habakkuk Project Working Groups in Columbia. We meet each other, select our leadership and clarify our tasks. We decide to begin a conversation with the members of the Conference by distributing a survey to the attendees of the upcoming Association Meetings. That means we have to develop the survey and get it ready for the April 17, 2008: St. Louis Association meeting. The meetings for the Eastern and Western Associations follow within a couple of weeks. Surveys are also distributed to the Women's Retreat as well as to a couple of other smaller gatherings. Completed surveys are returned to the Conference Office. June 21, 2008: Second meeting of the Working Groups reviews the process and the feedback from the surveys. We lay out a plan for the process through FaithWorks in October. This process includes the convening of Gatherings of the Clusters to have conversations using a common protocol which will generate a list of the important issues which the Strategic Plan should address. This protocol has to be ready by the first cluster meeting which is July 26, 2008: Meeting of the Kansas City cluster for the first of the Gatherings. The LaFayette cluster met on the 28th. August and September: The rest of the clusters meet. (see the blog for dates for Western Association) September 27, 2008: The St. Louis Association clusters met as a part of the Association meeting. October 4, 2008: The third meeting of the Working Groups considers the input from the cluster Gatherings and designs the process for reporting out at FaithWorks and continuing the conversation in that venue. October 17, 18 & 19, 2008: FaithWorks at Lake of the Ozarks. Working Group meets by phone and prepares for the next full meeting of the Habakkuk Project on January 10, 2009 Second Round of Cluster Conversations set for February and March, 2009 Habakkuk Project meeting in Columbia on March 14, 2009 October, 2009: Biennial Business Meeting of the Conference at which we ratify the Strategic Plan.Blog 
August 30, 2008
Aug 8 Conference Call
Meeting Notes:
We want to develop a process of including
·
those who have participated in the process such
that they can see their contributions and carry the enthusiasm forward and
·
those who have not in becoming aware and
involved,
·
while making a special effort to reach Memphis
and Little Rock
Addressing the process
for the cluster meetings: I asked
that we review the process as some elements of it have developed since our June
meeting. The consensus is that the
process is working very well, though the facilitators have to keep the process
on track to get the work done in a manner which is on time and inclusive.
Dates for Eastern Cluster meetings
·
September 18 at St. John’s (Cappeln) in
Foristell (Jamie and Mark)
·
September 23 at St. John’s (Fruitland) in Jackson
(Jamie and Sue)
·
September 30 at Grace, (O’Fallon) in St. Peters
(Jamie, Joyce, and Paul)
·
And at a date to be named later, the Grape
Country Cluster (perhaps September 30 as well.)
Each member of the working group will acquaint him or
herself with the reports of the cluster meeting prior to the meeting October 4
from 10-3 in Columbia.
July 28, 2008*
Survey Results
Thank you, Paul, for your work on collecting the feedback on the surveys.
Paul took the forms and transcribed the content to this list so that we can all see the feedback. I urge you to go through them and see what you find. I will certainly be doing that as well.
KC Cluster
On Saturday morning July 26th, the first of the cluster Gatherings met at Country Club Congregational in Kansas City. For a report on the outcome of the Gathering, read Paul Osgood's report.
July 24, 2008
Western Association Cluster meetings
Hello everyone and
greetings from the Western hinter lands,
We are set up and
ready for our Strategic Planning workshops in the Western Association. I
will list below the times and places for each cluster meeting. If any of
you are free and available you are more than welcome at any of these
meetings. Some of our churches feel a little isolated way out West, so
any time someone from the Eastern and St. Louis Association can join us we
welcome you with open arms.
Kansas City Cluster
Saturday, July 26th
9:00 - 11:30 am
Country Club
Congregational UCC
205 West 65th Street
Kansas City MO 64113
913 523-4813
Lafayette Cluster
Monday July 28th
6:00 - 7:00 pm Supper on
the Barbe
7:00 - 8:30 pm strategic
planning workshop
Zion UCC
105 N. Mary
Mayview MO 64071
660 237-4355
Ozark Cluster
Sunday, August 17th
3:30 - 6:00 pm strategic
planning workshop
6:00
- Dinner and entertainment
July 12, 2008
Reaching Out
I have set up the major areas of the site and have contacted each of the members of the Working Group by email to invite them to join. There is a new section of the site (called a Space) which is entitled Stages (see link on the right). It spells out what I think are the four major stages in the development of the Strategic Plan but I want some feedback about this to see if this is what the rest of you are thinking we are doing.
July 11, 2008
Netcipia Inauguration
One of the things that we have noted is the need to use electronic communication more effectively and to allow it to replace the need to travel to be in one place for constructive meetings. I am suggesting that we give this site a try as a way to explore how we might work closely at a distance.
March 05, 2007
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