Evangelism Team
February 8, 2005 Meeting Minutes

In attendance were David Ashby, Dean Conklin, Lynda Fickling, Ken Fong (taking minutes), Laura Kuhl (assisted in running the meeting), and Jim Wolff (presiding).

We briefly reviewed our progress last year; see the ET Church Conference report.

We reviewed our Action Items:

Jim Wolff reported that the Communications Team has taken over his 2 action items: they have a brochure template that could be used for printing Janet’s sermons, and they will look at IRM as an organizing principle for updating the bulletin format.

 

David Ashby will discuss involvement with ET at the next Youth Leadership Team meeting.

 

Ken reported on 1) the Lenten Invitation Card which we have started distributing, 2) a positive reception from the Home Improvements group, and 3) the plans for an Advocates video for the Next Steps class.

 

Dean Conklin met with UMM and asked everyone to send him “one good idea” for improving UMM participation. It was brought up that perhaps the group should change their name to something catchier (UMW changed their name to “the Women of St. Luke’s”).

 

Lynda Fickling met with the Women of St. Luke’s. They are interested in helping with hospitality, are thinking about holding a “mini-Ministry Fair” to promote themselves, are thinking about name tags, and are considering doing a ministry moment. It was suggested that we ask Carl Cleveland for help in clarifying the missions/charter of some of the groups that are having trouble attracting more members.

 

Laura Kuhl has gotten no feedback yet from Janet on being more visible with Little School. There is no progress on name tags or signage.

 

Some followup items to these action items are listed below under Action Items.

We discussed new projects for the ET for 2005. Jim said he believed that having an emotional connection to St. Luke’s is key to participation and giving. He will talk to Janet about this.

We also talked about reviewing some statistics to help guide our work, including loss/gain statistics, involvement demographics, and groups that we know are not having their needs met. Lynda will share what information she has.

We talked about some other projects to undertake; see the Action Items below.

Lynda told the group that she could use help in calling people who have been here a year and aren’t yet really involved.

We agreed that we could use some more members on our team.

Action Items:

All: Think of someone new to bring to ET.

Ken Fong: Will work with the Home Improvements group to schedule and plan a first “hospitality day”

Will get a sign put on the Mission Closet door, so people will know that it is a Mission Closet.

Will prepare an Invitation Card to hand out at Easter Services, listing major upcoming events for the year.

Jim Wolff: Will propose an annual process to coordinate how groups help with hospitality, including which functions they actually help with.

Will talk to Janet about how to form emotional connections.

Lynda Fickling: Will help Jim Wolff on his annual process for coordination.

Will share the statistics she has.

Will work with other ET members to get Invitation Cards to the groups that rent our building.

Laura Kuhl: Will get feedback from Janet on Little School visibility.

Will start name tag and signage teams.

Will contact Jerry McLeland to find out the status of the parking signs.

David Ashby: Will meet with the Youth Leadership Team.

Our next meeting is Tuesday, March 15, at 7 PM.