Doing the Business of the Church
The East District Board has been diligently working away at forming it's 2.0 structure and to that end they've posted a draft policies and procedures document to their website. This document is excruciatingly detailed in it's guidelines - which is great if you want to standardize the major aspects of how an organization is run,... Continue Reading →
It's that time of the triennium where all three LCC Districts hold their conventions! And what conventions they will be where the main order of business will be to receive a number of reports, acknowledge service anniversaries, nominate people to positions in the restructured Synod (1), and a elect a new Board. For the East... Continue Reading →
Every organization needs a group of people to keep all its ducks pointed in the same general direction, sometimes make hard decisions, and in general make sure things run the way they're supposed to. Of the three (current) LCC Districts only the East District Board makes their minutes publicly available and so provides pundits like... Continue Reading →
My prior post about the post-restructuring version of LCC's East District has attracted a couple of comments I'd like to address. For reference purposes, LCC East District's current handbook and policy documents can be found on this page. One comment on the CEF Investors Forum offered an alternative explanation about the 1/3rd membership quorum as referring... Continue Reading →
With all the restructuring going on, each District has to ask and answer what life will look like for them after restructuring. What will it do? How will it carry out its mission? What will its relationship be with it's current churches and pastors? Will it morph into "something else" now that the task of... Continue Reading →
Reading Board meeting minutes is usually a pretty routine affair for anyone interested in such things - policies are debated and adopted, decisions are made, and sometimes there's a difficult issue that needs to be dealt with and it falls to the Board to clean up the mess. For the most part an effective Board... Continue Reading →
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