Job Descriptions - Sending Forth to Serve

Missions Committee

Description

Lead the congregation's service and mission opportunities.  Help people understand that active service and support of mission contributes to the mission of the church: making disciples of Jesus Christ for the transformation of the world

Qualifications

Spiritual gifts: servanthood, exhortation (encouragement), leadership, compassion, faith, miracles, administration, helping, and evangelism.
Experience, skills: Have genuine interest in mission and outreach in the community and the world, openness to new views and different people, creativity in developing ways to interpret and support missions, ability to work with volunteers of various skill levels.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate the planning and implementation of a comprehensive mission ministry for your congregation.
• Lead the congregation to understand mission and service in the Christian life.
• Link people with organizations and resources that are concerned with mission.
• Connect mission projects with the overall goals of the congregation, and develop new emphases to carry out the goals of the congregation.
• Connect the congregation with mission and service through worship celebrations, fellowship opportunities, mission studies, guest speakers, witness and testimony of participants, to highlight missions, in events like mission studies and speakers and regular opportunities for children, youth, and adults to engage in service projects.
• Lead the congregation to take advantage of every opportunity to share in financial giving for missions.
• Plan and manage the annual mission budget.
• Maintain a growing and healthy spiritual life and lead others to do the same.

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More Opportunities - Missons

Community Meals

St. Timothys partners with Cedar Heights Presbyterian to serve a Community Meal at First United Methodist church in Cedar Falls on the third Tuesday of January, March, May, July, September, and November.  Volunteers may help with food preparation, serving, clean-up, or donate bar cookies.  The leader will be responsible for recruiting volunteers, ordering food, and organizing activities of the volunteers.

Meals On Wheels

For three weeks in the first quarter of each year, St. Timothys volunteers serve as runners for Meals on Wheels.   They will spend about 2 hours, from about 10:30 am to 12:30 am, riding with a driver, and delivering hot meals from the vehicle to the client's door.

P.I.E. (Partners In Education) Representative

 

New City Ministries Representative

 

Prison Re-Entry Group

 

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Church and Society Committee

Description

Lead the congregation to understand that working for peace with justice, environmental survival, and human welfare is active engagement of Christian disciples in the mission of transformation of the world.  Bring attention to societal issues through education and help the congregation understand the positions of the Unitied Methodist Social Principles

Qualifications

Spiritual gifts: prophecy, servanthood, teaching, exhortation (encouragement), leadership, compassion, wisdom, administration, and helping
 
Experience, skills:  Have a passion for engaging the church with the world in a Christian and Wesleyan manner. Be able to listen to and communicate with people of all ages, show interest in people of the world, especially displaced and marginalized people, and express concern about the quality of life of people in the congregation and community. Be able to creatively and compassionately addressi concerns and mobilizing people to action.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate planning and implementation of opportunities for education and action related to issues of the quality of life for people in the congregation and community.   
• Lead the congregation in study and awareness of the Social Principles of the United Methodist Church; and encourage frequent use of the Social Creed in congregational life.
• Provide opportunities for people in the congregation and community to learn about issues of social justice, ethical living in the work place, and prison ministry.
• Lead the congregation in celebration of the annual Peace with Justice Sunday and other efforts to connect the church and culture.
• Many churches are launching efforts for sustaining resources through recycling programs and use of fair trade products.
• Link with organizations, people, and resources in and beyond the congregation that are concerned with faith and living.
• Spend time in active theological and biblical reflection related to ministry for the transformation of the world.

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More Opportunities - Church & Society

Cool Congregations

 

Promote Inclusiveness

 

Wesley Foundation

 

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