Church members are encouraged to be involved in our committees. Each committee organizes and carries out the focus area of the church assigned to it. Committees include:
The committees conform to the Biblical model of the church; the Body of Christ in which all members work and cooperate together in order to fulfill God's purposes for our church and lives.
CONGREGATIONAL CARE
Karen Flowers, chair, and Jeannine Sligh
The purpose of the Congregational Care committee is to minister to the congregation by ensuring the emotional, physical, and spiritual needs are being met. The committee is responsible for overseeing the Stephen Ministry program and matching trained caregivers to appropriate situations in which an individual is in need of specific care. The committee also provides meals or other
basic needs to those members experiencing a particularly stressful time in their lives, whether it be the birth of a child, long-term illness, or death of a loved one. In general, the committee oversees the care and nurture of the members of our congregation.
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EDUCATION
Sue Ishimori, chair, and Scott Vandervelde
The goal of the Education and Discipleship committee is to provide a Christian learning environment which promotes spiritual growth and education for all ages. The committee's responsibilities include support of the Sunday School and Youth programming, adult Bible Studies, Vacation Bible School, the church library, and childcare.
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FELLOWSHIP
Robin Foy and Emily Flores, co-chairs, and Ed Glasscock
The purpose of this committee is to plan and organize activities and programs that encourage fellowship and social interaction among the congregation.
Responsibilities include fellowship opportunities for adults and family outside the structure of formal worship, after-church fellowship, family retreats, sports teams, dinners, breakfasts, pot luck suppers, picnics, obtaining kitchen supplies, kitchen maintenance, the Dine Out program, and the Greatest Generation.
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FINANCE
Scott Moseley, chair, Jim Blackwelder, Scott Vandervelde, and Louise Carter
The Finance Committee is responsible for managing the church's finances. It proposes for Session approval an annual budget of income and expenditures. It oversees the annual stewardship campaign and the weekly counting of worship offerings.
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MISSIONS
Alan Taylor, chair, Rob Brabham, and Ida McCaskill
The purpose of this committee is to establish an environment that enables McGregor members to promote and participate in local and global missions.
Responsibilities include determining how to distribute the church's benevolence budget, scheduling and promoting events for local and global missions, such as the Volunteer Fair, blood drives, and food collections for various organizations, serving breakfast at Trinity Episcopal Church to the homeless, providing assistance as appropriate to the Oliver Gospel Mission, coordinating and promoting any special offerings for the church, and coordinating mission trips.
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OUTREACH
Ida McCaskill, chair, Paul Matheny, and Thomas Crawford
Our purpose to extend an invitation to all to visit McGregor; to eliminate any barriers for visitors; to educate prospective members; to assimilate new members, to nurture members on how they may live in an evangelistic way, and to constantly seek ways to proclaim the gospel in our community.
Some of our responsibilities include: offering educational experiences for evangelism, overseeing the web page, promoting publicity within and outside the church, planning and executing visitor identification & follow up through membership, maintaining visitor pamphlets, name tags & new member packets, managing an effective greeter program, offering Inquiry class & new member assimilation, updating & maintaining the church directory, and seeking opportunities to reach into our community with Christian love and compassion.
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PERSONNEL
Steve Woodward, chair, Bill Ackerman, and Louise Carter
This committee provides supervision and personnel related support for all church employees. Responsibilities of this committee include writing, collecting, and updating all personnel policies of McGregor Presbyterian Church, creating and implementing standardized performance evaluation processes and procedures, conducting annual performance evaluations of the installed pastor and evaluation of terms of call and recommendations regarding terms of call, conducting annual performance evaluations of all paid staff in cooperation with the staff person's immediate supervisor, evaluation of compensation and recommendations regarding compensation, evaluation in collaboration with the installed pastor necessary staffing patterns and requirements, defining recruitment procedures for hiring all non-ordained personnel, leading recruitment of all non-ordained staff, maintaining confidential personnel files in a central, secure location at McGregor Presbyterian Church, and planning and supporting continuing education programs for the McGregor Presbyterian staff.
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PROPERTY
Tony Langton, chair, and Niels Taylor
The Property and Resource Committee is responsible for maintenance of grounds, facilities, and equipment, and contracts for insurance, cleaning, landscaping, and HVAC systems.
Activities include painting of parking lot lines, family paint days, clean-up and work days, opening and locking of the facility, making sure the building is secure and safe, changing/replacing light bulbs, and maintenance of playground, electrical, plumbing, and roofing. CAMP (Computer Asset Management Program), a subcommittee of Property and Resources, is responsible for maintenance of computers, networking, and communication within the facility.
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WORSHIP
Debby Griffis and Garnet Noblet, co-chairs, and Jim Blackwelder
This committee coordinates various aspects of the weekly worship service, as well as special services, such as Ash Wednesday, Maundy Thursday, Thanksgiving, and Christmas Eve. It provides training for the beadles and acolytes, schedules ushers, and coordinates communion servers and baptisms. This committee assists with special days in the life of the church such as weddings and funerals and is responsible for maintaining wedding and funeral policies. It schedules the weekly flowers in the sanctuary, as well as flowers for special days such as Easter and Christmas.
The music program is vital to worship, and the organist/choir director works to integrate all aspects of music into worship, using adult and children's choirs, and instrumentalists. Using the lectionary and seasons of the church year, the worship committee helps the McGregor staff to maintain the elements of the sacraments, biblical symbols, and music offerings, with the hope that believers are transformed and renewed through corporate worship.
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