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2010 Staff Parish Relations Committee

ELLEN JONES, Chair*
Terry Magaro, Vice Chair.
Nancy Woodward, Advisory Chair.
Gary Fuller, Lay Leader*
Perry Michael, Lay Delegate to Annual Conference*
  • Class of 2010

    • Ellen Brinkley

    • Jackie Wilson

    • TIM DOHERTY

     

  • Class of 2010

    • TERRY MAGARO

    • NANCY WOODWARD

     

  • Class of 2012

    • ELLEN JONES

    • LUCIA EPPS

    • PERRY MICHAEL

     

 

*indicates member of church council
updated March 31, 2014

 

Staff Parish Relations Committee ( 259.2, 2006 Discipline UMC)
(259.2.e The committee shall meet at least quarterly.)
The Mission of the SPRC is assist the pastor and staff in assessing their gifts and setting priorities for leadership and service.

The duties of the SPRC are as follows;
1. To encourage, strengthen, nurture, support, and respect the pastor(s) and staff and their family(s).
2. To promote unity in the church.
3. To confer with and counsel the pastor and staff on the matters pertaining to the effectiveness of ministry; relationship with the congregation; conditions that may imped the effectiveness of ministry; and to interpret the nature and function of the ministry.
4. To confer with, consult, and counsel the pastor and staff on matters pertaining to priorities in the use of gifts, skills, and time and priorities for the demands and effectiveness of the mission and ministry of the congregation.
5. To provide evaluation at least annually for the use of the pastor and staff in an ongoing effective ministry and for identifying continuing educational needs and plans.
6. To communicate and interpret to the congregation the nature and function of ministry in the UMC regarding open itinerancy, the preparation for ordained ministry, and the Ministerial Education fund.
7. To develop and approve written job descriptions for staff.
8. To consult with the pastor and staff concerning continuing education and spiritual renewal.
9. To enlist, interview, evaluate, review, and recommend annually to the charge conference lay preachers and persons for candidacy to the ordained ministry.
10. To interpret preparation for ordained ministry
11. To confer with the pastor and/or other appointed members of the staff if it should be come evident that the best interests of the charge and pastor(s) will be served by a change of pastors.
12. To recommend to the church council the professional staff positions needed to carry out the work of the church.
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