Pictured is Rev. Mike Davis, District Superintendent of the Tri State District of the UMCThis year's church conference was a celebration of our ministry, but not only ministry from the past, a celebration of ministry that may be coming in the future.
We began conference with worshiping with the videos we use for The Gathering while SPRC met with DS Mike Davis. We then had a brief devotion about the people all around us that are wondering about the Gospel, just waiting for us to come along side and help. Mike gave his thanks for the work we have done increasing our payment of mission shares this year well above where we were last year. We voted on a 4% raise for the pastors considering no raise last year. We continued approval of Mike Gray's candidate for ministry. We also approved five Lay Speakers: Chris Ward, Merril Kaiser, Doug and Linda Greer and the new addition of Art Tordoff.
Mike added a new component to our conference with a slide presentation offering training on Natural Church Development. This is a program we will be considering in the coming year. It offers a means of collecting anual data on the balence of our ministries as well as resources for improving the area with the most needs. This builds on the Purpose Driven Life model that encouraged building up the weaker areas of our ministry by providing a means for annual measure and accountability. www.ncd-international.org
This type of training will be part of our annual meeting. Please let the pastors or members of SPRC know if you have ideas for subjects you would like discussed. Thank you to all who facilitated or attended.
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