Steering Team Meeting Notes - 8 February 2009

Mike’s rough notes from the Steering Team Meeting on 8 February 2009

1. METS / ELDERS / STEERING meeting debrief - discussion
2. Communication Plan:
a.Discussion around asking Chad to go forward with his passion to grow a video communication process. Specifically focusing on dwelling in the word.
b. Some discussion around revisiting our long range plan and re-implementation of it.
c. Mike will test a PMC Blog in the next 24 hours.

3. Becky will begin building a team for worship planning. We need to refocus so Melvin or the pulpit minister is not the point person for PMC.

4. Plunges are experiments that are considered small risk.

a. Plunging experiments are small risk experiments to develop the Bridging Community in preparation for the big risk or “Missional Experiment” to be conducted in phase 3.

5. We are currently approaching Phase 2.

6. Jon will talk to Lisa about delivering to the steering team a plunging exercise; who they are targeting, what information will be collected and how it will be done. The steering team can use this data to strategically recruit and train plungers. 3 Considerations for building a plunging exercise:
a. SWOT (Strength / Weaknesses / Opportunities / Threats) of the POCOC
b. Capacity of the plungers (Even though they have not yet been identified)
c. Full ramifications of the Adaptive Challenge. (i.e. what group(s) to target, what activity to plunge with, what information we seek, etc)

7. Hospitality Groups are part of the “Bridge Community”. They build relationships
Training hospitality groups:
Discussion around using small groups and adult classes to teach hospitality.
a. Connie will talk to her small group about hospitality training.
b. Becky will talk to Tully’s group about hospitably training.
c. Mike will approach other small groups about using the Hospitality Training tools provided in the PMC phase 2 manual.

8. Missional Action Plan (MAP)
The MAP is a culmination of phase 2 and sets the ground work or direction for phase 3. It is developed by the METS team and approved by the Governance Board.

We have an ELDERS/METS/STEERING meeting on 1st March at about 12:30 in the fellowship hall.

The next Steering team meeting is February 22nd from 12:30 to 4:00pm in the POCOC library.