November 12—planning—Bishop Wilke event
Planners: Jerry Niebaum,
Reports:
Tom’s report: Tom has been in contact with Bishop Wilke, who suggests a $1000 honorarium plus expenses; will
send a biography and picture; will preach 15-20 minutes at two services…at West
Campus and 11 o’clock downtown; will answer questions at a forum after the
service and meal. (attached
is a copy of the email Tom sent as per your request).
Survey: The survey group will meet several times
before our next meeting. The consensus
appears to be…
1. hand out survey as parishoners arrive, not in bulletin
2. give the survey after the sermon possibly
during an extra long offertory, requesting that all participate; have a box by
the door to receive them.
3. purpose is to find
out where the congregation is on the subject.
4. leave a place for
comments and questions… a tear off to use at the forum.
5. survey should be
short with a place for an optional signature.
The meal: Steve Maceli is
willing to serve a lunch for 50-75 participants as a donation to the
church. It will be a light lunch with a
salad and dessert. January 15 will be
the deadline for turning in the number.
There will be no cost. We will
advertise that folks can come to the forum without having lunch with us if they
miss the deadline.
Small group advertising:
1. Sue will design a simple script that can be
adapted to each small groups character.
2. Jerry will design “Save this Date” cards that
can be handed out to small groups.
3. Carol will email Reconciling Hearts telling
them that we need persons to go to small groups to advertise and that we will
provide a script.
4. Carol will type up the list of small groups,
get contact persons for each group and supply the list to us and to all
Reconciling Hearts.
5. Carol will explain to RH what we want them to
do…contact a person from the small group to find out when they will meet;
explain what we want, i.e. 5-10 minutes at a certain time to explain about the Wilke event; go to the small group…explain…pass a signup
for the meal and pass out the “Save This Date” cards.
General advertising:
1. Ann Johnson will meet with Carol to design
advertising; hopefully the bio and picture will arrive soon. We will advertise
in First Editions, gold insert, and powerpoint.
Included in the advertising will be that Reconciling Hearts is responding to Ad
Board’s affirmation that we continue to inform the congregation. We will begin
ads ASAP.
2. Jerry’s “Save This Date” cards will be handed
out at services in January. The card will include the date/times of the event;
reservation deadline; where to sign up; a reservation email address (it can be
Carol’s…ciadfaks@sunflower.com. and the Reconciling Ministries Network logo (if
there is room) which Candice has on her
computer.
3. We will ask Barb and Tom to highlight this
event in their opening remarks at services in January.
4. The title of the event will be “The Bible,
Our Church, and Homosexuality.”
Followup:
1. We do need to have ideas in our pocket for followup and be thinking about all the scenarios…i.e. large
percentage positive or negative or a major split.
2. We will discuss potential followup
possibilities at our next meeting.
3. We need to keep in mind a goal of having a
welcoming statement, but we need to figure out when and how to do this.