SLC Nominations
SLC NOMINATIONS
The Discernment Task Group (DTG) is soliciting nominations for three positions on the Servant Leadership Council (SLC). Nominate by clicking the church website link or by paper ballot at the church. Nominations open Thursday, May 4, and will be closed on Sunday, May 21, 2023. Please prayerfully consider your nomination.
Currently serving on SLC:
Marcia Barber, Kandra Brummett, Marybeth Essex, Scott Johnson, Thomas Sprouse, Melissa Strong
Positions to be filled: Tom Burgess, Doug Hall, and Karen Mitscherlich all rotated off
SLC Responsibilities include:
1. Be responsible for the strategic direction of the church
2. Establish strategies and objectives to fulfill the church’s Purpose, Vision and Values, and to review progress against objective and ensure that ministry operates consistently with the strategies.
3. Be servant leaders of the church in life, thought, and ministry.
4. Meet monthly, and at other times as necessary to accomplish its duties, maintaining permanent, typed minutes of such meetings.
5. Annually review and establish strategies and objectives to accomplish the church’s purpose and to review the charter of ministry councils and teams. As part of this review, it may request objectives from the staff, ministry councils, teams.
6. Regularly review the total ministry of the church to determine that objectives are being accomplished and give direction, guidance and spiritual support to the senior pastor.
7. Establish policies as necessary to guide the church and to take or recommend corrective action, or reverse objectives, where objectives are not being accomplished.
8. Represent the church in certain staff relationships as outlined in the church’s Human Resources Policy Manual.
9. Routinely review the charter and objectives of ministry teams.
10. Make recommendations on all matters to be brought to the church in business meetings, other than from teams directly responsible to the church; and to call church meetings as necessary.
11. Approve the annual ministry budget of the church as submitted by the STG. Final budget will be forwarded to the church in the annual meeting for consideration and approval.
12. Execute all contractual agreements on behalf of the Church.
13. Perform and provide the annual appraisal of the senior pastor.
14. Set and establish annual goals for the Church, in consultation with the senior pastor, and publish the goals on the Church website.
15. Authorize the transfer of Church funds to reserve accounts pending approval of the membership for any non-budgeted expenditure of such funds.
16. Publish the minutes of each SLC meeting, other than when in closed session, on the Church website.
17. Authorize and execute any and all other duties and obligations in furtherance of the ministries and operation of the Church.
