MINISTRY DEVELOPMENT SURVEY TEAM

REPORT TO ANNUAL MEETING

February 23, 2003

The report to the Annual Meeting contains the Survey Teamís ìFINALî LIST OF PROPOSED MINISTRY ROLES (2 pages facing)

Supporting documents may be found on a wall display:

1)     Total list of roles suggested during survey meetings

2)     List of ìreactionsî to MinDev process (excitements & concerns)

3)     Important ìExtraneousî Data

4)     Updated MinDev process flow diagram

5)     Table summarizing survey meetings

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 The ìFinal Listî was presented to St. Paulís Vestry Thursday, Feb. 20 and to the Diocesan Commission on Ministry Saturday, Feb. 22; both groups approved the list without change.  If the list is approved by this Annual Meeting, then the Survey Team is disbanded.  A complete Survey Team report will be available in the office; it will contain all written reports from Survey meetings and minutes of Survey Team meetings.

 At the final meeting of the Survey Team on Tuesday, Feb. 18, we used the ìTotal listî, combined with Survey Team membersí comments/observations, to arrive at the ìFinal Listî.  The ìTotal listî of suggested ministry roles is our complete ìraw dataî. 

The ìCharge to Discernment Teamî at the bottom of page 2 is a suggestion, based on the Survey Teamís discussion Tuesday.  The Vestry was invited to modify the charge, since the Vestry (with approval of COM) has oversight of the overall process; the Vestry had no input regarding the charge, so it was left on the document.

 The Vestry made the following decisions regarding moving forward to the Discernment process:

The Vestry will appoint the Discernment Team, currently projected at six members; nominations will be invited from the congregation.  We anticipate issuing the invitation for nominations in the April newsletter.

 The ìreactionsî are included on the wall display to convey how members of St. Paulís who participated in the survey meetings view the overall process.  The ìexcitementsî convey a remarkably broad positive response.  We believe the ìconcernsî are generally the same ones that watchers of mutual ministry in this diocese have been aware of for many years.

Interesting observations:

1)     Only one ìat largeî member of St. Paulís attended a survey meeting.

2)     Scheduling survey meetings as part of the regular meetings of parish groups had a high impact on participation.

 St. Paulís Survey Team:
Kai Carrigan, Bill Dunham, Mark Engle, Marcia Franz, Leon Jarvis, Kay Payant, Bob Railey, Vince Reed, Barbara Susan, Kevin Thew-Forrester.