Privacy

After a discussion of options with John, I have made this a private blog. At the moment, one has to be invited in order to read or contributre to this blog. I just want to remind everyone, that things can be hacked, so we can use this to post more internal stuff, but remember, in many ways it remains a public document.

Also, for those who have not used this technology much, on the right side of the frame is the list of titles for the posts (new threads). If you click on one of the titles, you will reveal comments for that particular thread. It is helpful if you create a title for any new posts you make.

John -- congrats on the new position. I, too, have moved along -- am now serving as Director of Development for the Roger Tory Peterson Institute (Jamestown) while their director is on a leave of absence related to bad health problems of her adult children. Half time in December, 3/4 time at least through March and maybe a bit beyond. So... a little less time to participate, but still a willingness. I hope we can focus on 1) our own objectives in the coming calendar year (e.g. a first annual report, a tool useful for other elements to plan and evaluate their progress, etc.) 2) some actually helpful feedback to Rex/Bronwen regarding Presbytery meetings and Lance/Bronwen regarding council meetings. That's a lot, I realize. Will help how I can.
Merry Christmas and peace for the New Year,
Dick R.

Documents

Hey John,
How about if we set up a thread that is for all of the attachments. Then you can include them with a label for date & time and topic as the title of the post.

Personal Note

Tomorow I start a new job as the Acquisitions Librarian at D'Youville College. I'm all excited because this job is all about library technical services, the kind of work I love.

Germane to our group's life is the fact that this new job is full-time. My previous job at the same library was 1/2 time, so I won't have as much discretionary time available as before. This is the reason I won't be able to get to any late afternoon meetings, I don't finish work until 5:00.

John.

P.S. Thanks Cathy, for getting this blog up and running; I love this format!

I'm In

Hi Folks --

I'm in now and I am copying the Proposed Agenda from our cancelled December Meeting to this post. I haven't found at 'attach' option so I'll assume documents are to be copied into the body of a posting.

Two matters I feel are pressing:
1) Approving the Comments Section of the compiled December Presbytery Meeting Questionnaire so we can pass this onto Rex, et al. in time for the 8 January Council Meeting.
2) Approving the questions for the Presbytery Meeting Questionnaire to be used at 26 January Presbytery Meeting.

Question:
Did the materials distributed at the December Presbytery Meeting include the compilation of the Questionnaire Comments from the September Presbytery Meeting?


Presbytery Evaluation Team
Tuesday 11 December 2007
First United Presbyterian Church Silver Creek 5 – 7 PM

Proposed Agenda
5:00 Opening Devotion – John McClester

In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, to a virgin pledged to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of David. The virgin's name was Mary. And he came to her and said, "Hail, O favored one, the Lord is with you!" But she was greatly troubled at the saying, and considered in her mind what sort of greeting this might be.
Luke 1: 26-29

5:10 Team Members Introduce Themselves
Welcome to Mary Beth Karr
(Neil Farmelo has schedule conflict)

5:15 Additions, Adjustments, and Approval of Agenda

5:20 What specific tools shall we develop and share with committees in order to assist them in their work and us in the evaluation of the presbytery’s accomplishments in the five mission priorities?
See John’s Brainstorm on Tools and Tactics
See DickC’s Generational Issues Paper

5:45 List likely ingredients and preliminary time-line for our 1st Annual Report to the Presbytery – Due in about six months.

6:00 Review of 1 December Presbytery Meeting
See Evaluation Comments
See Tally 2
Changes for January’s Questionnaire
· “Respond by circling ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ – I was able to attend this Presbytery Meet only because it was held on a Saturday.”

6:15 Observations and Review of November Presbytery Council Meeting

6:30 Additional Matters

6:35 Date and Time of our Next Meeting?

6:40 How did we do tonight?

6:45 Closing Prayer – Dick Redington

Certainly we'll keep talking about those tools and techniques.
John.

Joining the blog

Just letting you know I'm signed in, if this works!
Dick R

I'm signed in! Hope this enables us to save some meeting time.
Thanks Cathy, for setting it up for us.
Dick C.

Welcome to the Blog

If you have gotten this far, you have made good progress. Please take a moment to post, so that we know you are here. If you are having trouble, e-mail me and I will work it out with you. I will post John's thoughts and Dick's response to begin to conversation. John, maybe you could upload some of the previous documents that have been compliled and sent out.

Cathy