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2021-03-09 - Tuesday
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DONE [[id:ac376401-a8b9-45c5-ab1a-4a77837bd03c][Partnership Squad Engineering Stand-up]]
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DONE [[id:363ac209-f840-46f0-9804-282a6d51d603][Pair Programming Time]] with [[id:f94825ec-0493-446c-9632-ee579ad6be3b][João]]
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DONE Intro with [[id:d2bd8b3c-6d15-4f9f-836b-491afce33ce3][Laura Cristobal Boyer]]
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DONE Draft user stories for the [[id:49a1eb19-1b65-493a-b321-81c164a64cfc][App Library]]
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Personal
Church
DONE [[id:6108cfcd-1ee8-4104-9fd0-52c9e2dbe704][Collaborative Ministry Team]] meeting
CLOSED:
1. Check-in
2. Update on CMT Communication Plan
+ Bettina: All Belfast offerings on the email
- Hard to not have the same thing twice
- Do we need lengthy explanation of what a program entails
- Was a nice way to get the word out
- April-May history things going on in Belfast
- Thing in mid-stream in other congregations
- Requires a point person to get that information from each congregations
- Included the CMT workshop service coming up
- Idea is, here's the events going on and classes in other congregations
- Gdoc with information
+ Robin: Weekly or monthly news?
+ Sara: It's in the monthly newsletter
- This year has been the year of collaborating more with programming
- Scope of what CMT is thinking about,
+ Gary: As we develop the Breeze calendar, that's a good place to enter these events
+ Karen: Faith & Renewal committee is meeting tomorrow
- Might be nice to have shorter title and description for offerings
- Contact person offering course for more information
+ Bettina: Don't want to take focus away from the Belfast congregation
+ Karen: Group is eagar to have others join
+ Colin: Is it crazy to have folks from other churches sit on other committees?
+ Amy: We've done that in th past
+ Robin: Happens when it's useful or one church wants information from another church
- Happened with policy-based governance, precedent has been set
+ Sara: A way to have other churches participate in offerings
+ Karen: What if we had someone say, by the 20th of each month they'd touch base with
- For this past month, Bettina co-ordinated this information, but who gathers that info?
+ Bettina: Didn't take much time, looked through newsletters and gathered information
- Shared information after gathered with minsters
- Belfast/Karen sent information directly to Bettina
- Having one person be in touch with the Adult RE people in each congregation
- There's also children's programs
+ Robin: ALso things like making sure folks know about auctions and fundraisers
- Do we have a playbook for how to do it
+ Bettina: Get a format up on GDocs
+ Margaret: Just because Belfast is giving out information doesn't mean everyone is invited
- If an event is going on CMT blurb, has to be okay for external office
- CMT should have Zoom account? Overkill, probably
- Maybe things that didn't work in Zoom before may work now? Common Read?
- There's certain events as a CMT to do together
- So even when we go back to non-virtual meetings, are there things we can do virtually still?
+ Bettina: Once we're back in person, the list of shared things is going to get smaller
+ Mac: Could do in-person and on Zoom
- CMT tagline, "We're all in this together, so let's get together"
+ Amy: Does make sense for intern to be running this process
- BUt there'd be a gap in July and August
3. Internship update
+ Inteviewed an officialy offered the job go Vanessa Williams
+ Middle of August to Middle of May will be the timeline
+ Amy, Margaret and Vanessa will work kon getting the committee formed
+ There's already a small committee for Vanessa
+ Lane: Were there other candidates?
+ Margaret: Had a few other people interested
- Few people selected out when it was clear it wasn't 100% virtual
- Also had one person drop when they realied it wasn't full time paid with benefits
- Did not interview anyone else
+ Bettina: Decision deadline is very late, not sure if that has any impact
+ Margaret: Had one person take a position elsewhere in the last cycle because of that
+ Lane: Do we have a packet we send out to interested parties?
+ Margaret: There's a lot of info on the clearing house website
+ Have had some conversations with potential candidates
+ Sara: We can do a little video recording
+ Coming year is our sixth year of offering an internship
+ Margaret: Not sure how the clearing house works
+ Might have to be after they express interest
+ Bettina: Clearing house provided good information
+ Collaborative nature and small congregations advertised well
+ BUt emphasisizng the smaller congregational might be good
+ Lane: Video is a great idea, people south of the bridge think of Maine as somewhere near Canada
+ Sara: Clearing house is a form so it could have a link to the video
+ There are people here that could be telling the story about how small congregations build capacity
+ PSA about a collaborative ministry works
+ Karen: Is this somethign taht we could apply for a grant to do?
+ Sara: Increased to $14.5K for the coming year
4. Collaborative services update - March 21 and May 16/24?
+ Sara: To honor Bettina, May 16 was the date
+ Amy: Belfast working around annual meeting, so May date matters
+ Bettina's last Sunday is May 16
+ Ariel coordinated the virtual service last year
+ We do the de-covenanting
+ Amy:
+ Mac: think we should continue with four quarterly collaborative services
+ If we see each other more often
+ Bettina: Nice to see people they recognize
5. Common read
+ Breathe: A Letter to My Sons by Imani Perry
+ Lane: Haven't read it yet, but understand it's very moving
+ We're used to doing Zoom now
+ Common Read Groups in the churches I"m aware of, tend to be on the small side
+ Seems very possible to make it a CMT event
+ Amy: Love the idea, attendence is better when offered on Zoom
+ If we're gonna do a Common Read
+ Offer it from the CMT, have two facilitators
+ Don't want to take it all on, but happy to be a faciliator
+ One of those things that we always offer via Zoom
+ Karen: Model we used the last few Common Reads, each org would meet in their own church
+ Last half hour or so, try to come together via Zoom
+ Only reason it didn't work was becasue the tech was not mastered
+ People were bringing good things to share
+ Common read as collaborative, use the study guide provided by the UUA
+ We'd just do one collaborative book groups
+ Margaret: Only reason to do breakout rooms, if 60 people show up
+ Can we do it over the summer?
+ Karen: Barriers to participation, small gropu who would get the book and read it cover to cover
+ But others hadn't read the whole book
+ Have excerpts available to everyone online to allow folks to join in if they hadn't read the whole book
+ Lane: Timeline is hard, but happy to take point
+ Election overshadowed things
+ Amy: Start it really soon and end by June, or wait and do it in the fall
6. 2021 retreat funds request
+ 10 Castine, 20 Ellsworth, 20 Belfast
+ Maine just shifted attendeance, may be that those numbers go up
+ Does that number include children?
7. Treasurer's report
+ Ask Jaqcui to provide treasurer's report in CMT meetings