Cabinet and Board of Ordained Ministry Draft Effectiveness Strategy
Documents (revised 11/27/07)
- Forms Only (Do not use these without reading the entire document.)
- Congregational Evaluation (PDF | RTF)
- Clergy Self-Evaluation (PDF | RTF)
- Clergy Evaluation (PDF | RTF)
- Effectiveness Strategy Document Complete Package (PDF)
Introduction
Clergy and SPRC chairs were mailed a packet containing
an Effectiveness Strategy for clergy and local congregations.
The document is on the web also (this page).
The document has been under development since 2002, according to
Brenda Lear, Sunshine District Superintendent and secretary of the
Cabinet.
In 2002 the cabinet attended a General Board of Higher Education
and
Ministry
event for
cabinets called "Leading Supervisory Systems." This event
gave attention to clergy effectiveness and the RMC cabinet learned
that several conferences had effectiveness strategies in place. Following
the event, the RMC cabinet gathered some of these strategies from
other conferences to begin their own discernment about what might
be beneficial in our own setting.
In 2004 the RMC cabinet participated in a Six Sigma training which
gave them a clear process for beginning to develop an effectiveness
strategy. The Board of Ordained Ministry was invited to partner with
the cabinet in this process. After much discussion the BOM suggested
that the effectiveness of clergy cannot be discerned in a vacuum:
congregational effectiveness and clergy effectiveness are interrelated.
Therefore, the strategy was enlarged to include elements of congregational
effectiveness.
Using The Discipline, documents from other conferences, input from
clergy and lay people around our own conference, and published scholarship
on effectiveness, the cabinet and BOM have developed "components
of effectiveness" for clergy and congregations. Care was taken
to identify broad areas of effectiveness that apply across demographics
of congregations and age of congregations and clergy. It is also
important to note that no one clergy or congregation reaches perfection
in all areas. The point is to help us identify what effectiveness
looks like so we can continue moving toward it.
The evaluation tools for clergy and congregations that are contained
within the Effectiveness Strategy will be in place for the remainder
of this quadrennium (2007-2008) and through the next (2009-2012).
As they are used this first year, the cabinet and BOM welcome feedback
so that the strategy might be refined. For this purpose a feedback
form has been sent to appointed local church clergy and
SPRC chairpersons, enclosed with the Effectiveness Strategy Notebook.
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