Called Congregational Meeting Minutes, July 2, 2023

   Congregational Meeting in person and on Zoom, July 2, 2023:

  • Reverend Larry Cracraft opened the meeting with prayer at 11:07 am. Steve Hooper was appointed as the clerk and verified that there was a quorum.
  • Bill Varva moved that Ron Ford be elected to fill the office of Trustee for the class of 2025. Motion passed.
  • Bill Varva, on behalf of the nominating team, asked Tom Bloxom, Anne Burris, Dale Haury, Jocelyn Pafume, and Bob Ross to stand and moved that each be elected to serve on the Interim Pastor Nominating Committee. Motion passed.
  • Reverend Cracraft closed the meeting with prayer.
  • The meeting was adjourned at 11:10 a.m.
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Interim Pastor Nominating Team Update: July 19, 2023

We had our second meeting on July 19. We are now meeting on a weekly basis. We are following the “On Calling A Pastor” guide, which outlines the process that we are going through. In our July 19 meeting, we began filling out the Ministry Discernment Profile. This is used as a starting point for entering the Ministry Information Form in the PCUSA Church Leadership Connection, an online platform that matches Calling Congregations to Call Seekers. Once we get that done, we hope to start receiving Personal Information Forms that are the responses to our call. If you have questions, please feel free to contact our team.

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Cheryl Hoops: Pastoral Care

The personnel team has arranged for Pastor Cheryl Hoops to staff five hours a week of pastoral care work. Cheryl’s email is cheryl@mygpc.org or call the office at 316-684-5215.

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Good Neighbor Team

Our Good Neighbor Team completed another project on July 2. This was a yard cleanup project at the home of a woman named Nancy in east Wichita. Thirteen people from the Good Neighbor Team joined together and completed the project in under three hours.

Contact the church office at 316-684-5212, to learn how to be involved with this team.

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Interim Pastor Nominating Committee

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UPDATE JULY 12, 2023:

The Interim Pastor Nominating Committee (IPNC) met for the first time earlier this week. Their next step is to begin work on the Ministry Information Form (MIF). The MIF includes basic demographics of the congregation, desired characteristics for the interim pastor, specific responsibilities for them, as well as questions about the church’s mission and vision and our engagement with the community.

JULY 6, 2023

The congregation approved at last Sunday’s Congregational Meeting our Interim Pastor Nominating Committee.

Tom Bloxham, Anne Burris, Dale Haury, Jocelyn Pafume, and Bob Ross are responsible for starting a search for an Interim Pastor.  They  work closely with the Session, staff, and Presbytery of Southern KS to conduct this search as expediently as possible.

Look for their updates under the Pastor Transition button on our web page www.mygpc.org.  Please feel free to reach out to anyone of them if you have any questions or thoughts.  Please pray for them and our future Interim Pastor, whomever that may be.

 

 

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