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#+TITLE: Collaborative Ministry Team

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* Covenant

We, the CMT, covenant to:
- Hold in highest consideration the well-being and individuality of each of the
3 congregations
- Listen attentively to our congregations and to each other
- Communicate with our response respective congregations in a timely and
inclusive way
- Value the diversity of opinions, allowing complete expression of them and
holding our minds open
- Make decisions that consider the integrity of the 3 congregations as we
collaborated and then support those decisions in our congregations
- Remain engaged when conflict arises and practice forgiveness with ourselves
and with each other

* Open questions

The following are the four open questions that I cribbed from my notes
yesterday. Take a look, let me know if I’m off-base/mis-remembering anything and
do be sure to propose new questions via reply to this email if anything is
missing. My hope is to come to our October meeting with a solid list of
questions so we can pick one or two at get to work setting goals for ourselves
to answer those questions.

** How do we utilize our collaborative energy to help our members deepen their personal spirituality?
** How do we improve and support effective lay leadership in our congregations?
** What shall we do about retaining families with children in our congregations?
** What can we do to improve communication between the congregants in our collaborative?

* Meeting on [2020-03-10 10:00-11:30]

- Covenant review
  - Working towards a common vision or goal?
  - Each church reinforces each other in our work
  - We're not alone, we're not doing this by ourselves
  - Commitment to being teaching congregations?
  - What do you take back to your congregation?
  - OWL has been a big win, and is perhaps a product of familiarity born of the
    collaborative, not a specific CMT initiative
- Internship update
  - Sara reported we have 2 applicants in the process of interviewing
  - Will be making a decision soon
  - Have to absorb additional expense for next year
  - 1/3 contribution for 2021 internship is approx. $5100
- Collaborative worship
  - Ellsworth is hosting, changed the date to June 7 from the 14th
  - Margaret got Shana Apell (sp) as guest, Ariel will coordinate
  - Spiritual leadership
  - Pick up choir will be coordinated by leadership and information coming out
- GA bus
  - Deposit check due on Monday, $300, Jacqui will make sure that gets submitted
  - 7 people signed up, two checks in
  - 4 from Ellsworth and 4 from Belfast
  - Amy said 14 people planning to go from Belfast, but not clear
  - We get a full refund if canceled within 15 days
  - Margaret will get information to Rockland UUs
  - Lane will get information to MUUSAN UUs
  - How to handle scholarship requests
    - Donation for scholarship for two people
    - $135
- Film nights
  - Just Mercy, a bunch of Ellsworth folks and a few Castine folks were there
  - There was a pizza + discussion afterward, 14 people came to that
  - Condor & the Eagle sponsorship, don't have to front that money
  - Didn't talk about dates
  - Task force of Colin, Margaret and Jacqui to work on marketing
  - Ariel will work on programming
  - Colin has reached out to the Alamo
  - Colin will introduce the film
  - Could be a fundraiser for Earth Ministry
- Ferry beach
  - Deadline to register is May 17
  - Registration form has gone out to churches
  - Retreat is August 21-23
  - Andy Burt about a Justice workshop
  - Lane will think about doing a justice workshop
  - Workshop on voter registration, UU the Vote
- Maker space
  - Does anyone know folks who have skills to teach?
  - Weekend at the end of April
- Congregational news
  - Bounty for Babies forever Faithify campaign, ends March 30
  - MidMaine Youth also have a Faithify campaign