Agenda for 26 February 2008

Presbytery Evaluation Team
Tuesday 26 February 2008
First United Presbyterian Church Silver Creek 6:30 – 8:30 PM

Proposed Agenda

6:30 Opening Devotion – John

And when you pray, don’t act like phonies. They love to stand up and pray in houses of worship and on street corners, so they can show off in public. I swear to you, their prayers have been answered! When you pray, go into a room by yourself and shut the door behind you. Then pray to your Father, the hidden one. And your Father, with his eye for the hidden, will applaud you.
Matthew 6: 5-6
(trans. Five Gospels, Funk & Hoover, 1993)

6:40 Team Members introduce themselves
Welcome to Neil Farmelo and Mary Beth Karr

6:50 Additions, Adjustments, and Approval of Agenda

6:55 Shall we forward the Comments’ section of the feedback questionnaires from January’s Presbytery Meeting to the Moderator, Clerk, and Council Chair with or without the inclusion of the two specific names mentioned in those comments?

Would it be helpful, in terms of gaining a broader understanding of the purpose of the feedback questionnaires, to reiterate our “encouragement” to the Moderator to share the Comments from these feedback questionnaires by printing them in the floor papers for the subsequent meeting?

Background -
Each of the last two times we have sent along comments we have encouraged the Moderator to share them with the Presbytery. To date, it doesn’t seem that this has happened. The result, to my mind, is a lost opportunity in giving to a group the very feedback that could result in a change in that group’s (the Presbytery in its plenary meetings) behavior as well movement toward Adult Posture (i.e. greater ownership and responsibility) by meeting participants.

7:00 Can we make the Team Blog work ?!

7:05 “Could we now construct a brief narrative on the workings of the Council this past year ?”

7:20 “Is it reasonable for us to ask Council to assist us in developing a few possible key indicators for each of the 5 Mission Priorities ?”

7:35 “Could we now ask the primary teams, committees, and task forces to send us some evidence of their thinking about accomplishments for the past [and coming] year with some suggestions about how hey intend to measure their progress toward those accomplishments ?”

7:50 “Is it reasonable for us to develop one or more survey type tools geared to getting a reading on how people feel about the current state of processes in the Presbytery ?”

8:05 Additional Matters

8:10 Date and Time of our Next Meeting?

8:20 How did we do tonight?

8:25 Closing Prayer – Dick Redington