Mission Resource Team Report
The Mission Resource Team continues to provide training and resource information for the churches in the Santa Ana District. Our goal was to offer and complete the training for the four major local church committees including Staff Parish, Lay, Finance and Trustees by March of 2009. In addition, we also wanted to set up a Mission Resource area on the District website for information and training materials.
The Finance and Trustee Committee Training was held March 1st and 8th 2009 at two locations (Aldersgate UMC and La Mirada UMC) with combined total of 100 members and clergy attending. Our goal was to provide workshops for looking at various responsibilities, resources and sharing challenges and ideas. In addition, we also had a catch up session held on March 1st for Staff Parish Training which was well attended.
Many thanks to Judy Cobb, Dan Gara, Jan Berentsen and others who all participated in the trainings.
The committee will be working with to follow-up of the training and on-going needs for the coming year with an emphasis on supporting the Mission Centers for their training and resource needs.
MRT Website Launched! We are also delighted to announce that under Paul Ashley’s hard work, we now have the Mission Resource section up and running on the Santa Ana District website. This may be reached by clicking on the URL below:
http://sad-mrt.com
In the website you can find the handout and presentation material from our previous workshops (Trustees, Finance and Stewardship). Also, we have a Trustees Newsgroup started for sharing ideas and resources. Take a look and join in the conversation!
Many thanks to our hard working members for a job well done: Melody Ashley, Paul Ashley, Mike Mitchell, Jack Murrieta, Gideon Tuitupou and Rev. Mark Ulrickson, and our district lay leader
Submitted by Maggie Stedt, Chair MRT
