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.
ADMINISTRATIVE & PERSONNEL
Bill Ackerman, Clerk of Session and chair, Administrative
Brad Smoak, chair, Personnel
This committee serves the Session in an administrative, advisory and oversight capacity and provides supervision and personnel related support for all church employees. In addition, it oversees the ongoing administration of the church, its budget, and programs.
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, planning and supporting continuing education programs for the McGregor Presbyterian staff, establishing procedures for appointment and duties of trustees, establishing the role and authority of the Administrative Committee in the context of a program model church, and providing the framework for the Planning and Evaluation Subcommittee.
There are two subcommittees under the Administrative and Personnel Committee. The Session Agenda Subcommittee establishes the agenda for Session meetings and recommends to the Session those persons to serve on the Committee on Assignments and any other special committees as needed. It also recommends to the Session (in the event a vacancy occurs in a class) the name of a candidate for Elder.
The Planning and Evaluation Subcommittee plans for and evaluates the church's long range implementation of its mission, including its committee structure, its projected problems, its developing directions, as well as its facility needs. The subcommittee also develops and implements a suitable policy, with Session approval, for special fund raising campaigns, and reviews periodically, the church's Operations Manual.
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CHILDCARE & DEVELOPMENT
Laurie White, chair
The Childcare & Development Committee is responsible for organizing and overseeing the nursery, children's church, and kid's club. They also coordinate annual events such as the Fall Festival and the Easter Egg Hunt. The purpose of this committee is to establish a safe Christian environment to educate McGregor's children.
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EDUCATION & DISCIPLESHIP
Garnet Noblet and Sue Ishimori, co-chairs
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 program, VBS, "The Oasis" (our Sunday evening programming), and the church library.
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FINANCE & STEWARDSHIP
Bob Gohean, chair
The Finance and Stewardship 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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INREACH & ENRICHMENT
Elaine Abercrombie, chair
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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LOCAL & GLOBAL MISSIONS
Robert E. Brabham, Jr., chair
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 & ASSIMILATION
Alan Taylor and Paul Matheny, co-chairs
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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PASTORAL CARE & CONGREGATIONAL NURTURE
Ann Bright, chair
The purpose of the PCCN 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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PROPERTY & RESOURCES
Lane Holder and Tony Langton, co-chairs
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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VISION IN ACTION AND COMMUNICATION
Karen Flowers, chair
The purpose of the Vision in Action and Communication Committee is to oversee, facilitate, and communicate the implementation of McGregor's goals and objectives. Among the duties of this committee are making regular contact with the other Session committees to get feedback on their progress with goals and objectives; provide assistance to other committees as they develop their action plans; serve as liaison between committees to assist them in working together on objectives that overlap committees; report progress to the Session each month and to the congregation periodically.
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WORSHIP & MUSIC
Jane Tyer, chair
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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