Change your Life, Change your Practice

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Change your Practice

Welcome

The Building Committee is responsible for the transformation from the current building setting to the new vision of the church and foundation.

Creating a Queer Spiritual Center including
- A Center for worship
- A Center for learning, wholeness, creativity
- A Center for leadership
- A Center as a good neighbor
Providing facilities for Social Justice Programs
- Dual-campus option
- Sustainable and economically viable

The Communications/Marketing Committee is responsible for:

Relating the mission, strategies and ministries of MCC/MCF through clear, concise, and effective internal and external communication, utilizing a variety of communication vehicles: weekly bulletin, email communications, web site messaging, press releases, community surveys, etc.
Developing a set of policies and procedures with regard to communications

(Including Annual Pledge Campaign, Capital Campaign, Planned Giving, Fundraising Events, Circles of Hope, etc.)

The Development Committee is responsible for:

Designing, planning, and implementing coordinated strategies that financially sustain the work of MCC and MCF.
Developing a fundraising and endowment plan including creating and implementing a successful, targeted, broad-based fundraising plan supporting the discretionary programming and expenditures of both organizations.
Developing a donor development and educational program that creates and sustains programs, systems, and practices that fully communicate the requirements for and status of the financial health of MCC/MCF.
Establishing a development infrastructure which assembles the appropriate tools required to support and sustain the MCC/MCF development goals.
Developing a set of policies and procedures with regard to development.

The Finance Committee is responsible for:

Providing financial support to the congregation and community through risk and expense management, budget analysis, and income strategies.
Managing the annual financial audit and review process.
Supporting the strategies and goals of the church and foundation by being good stewards of finance thus ensuring sustainability for generations to come.
Developing a set of policies and procedures with regard to finance.

The Human Resource Committee is responsible for:

Assisting and advising the church and foundation management on personnel and human resource issues.
Developing training programs and materials for staff and volunteers.
Making policy recommendations concerning staff and volunteers to both the church and foundation.
Acting as/or appointing search committees during periods of staff turnover.
Developing a set of policies and procedures with regard to human resources.

Lay Leadership is a committee presently focused on the church. Its purpose is to assist the Associate Pastor with the following:

Helping to establish appropriate kinds of worship service/meditation activities in which non-clergy people can participate.
Assisting in the definition and documentation of roles, responsibilities, terms and expectations for those activities.
Helping to develop training materials and curricula for those activities.
Helping to identify, select and train candidates.
Providing input and support to the program on an ongoing basis.
Developing a set of policies and procedures with regard to lay leadership programs.

The Social Justice Program Committee is responsible for:

Supporting and encouraging individual and group action for social and economic justice, responsible citizenship, environmental stewardship, promotion of peace, relief efforts and work for the common goal.
Organizing awareness activities and coordinating calls for community action.
Developing a set of policies and procedures with regard to social justice programs.