Leaders:  Rev. Mike Cave (clergy), Carleen Alderman (laity), and Pat Miller (Chrysalis)

Location: Tennison UMC, 313 N. Church St., Mt. Pleasant, TX 75455

Dates:

Friday, Jan. 20, 5-9 p.m. Clergy Training

Lay folks are invited and welcome to join the clergy (lay board members especially )to discover how the clergy partner with the laity and the walks are designed to lead the pilgrims to a closer walk with Christ.

Saturday, Jan. 21, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Lay Training

Laity will look at reunion groups, sponsorship, training, weekend planning, and more.

Meals:  Will be provided.

RSVPs are essential!!! RSVP to Rev. Debbie Riggsby, email at

deborah817@suddenlink.net, call 903-243-3333 (cell), or text 903-243-3333.  Please include your name and number attending.

Featuring:

Dr. Lovett H. Weems, Jr.
Distinguished Professor of Church Leadership / Director, G. Douglass Lewis Center for Church Leadership

 Monday, February 6, 2012
Longview FUMC

 Tuesday, February 7, 2012
The Woodlands FUMC

Register by January 16, 2012,  Cost: $15

Brochure and Registration

  Begins at 12 PM on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012

Ends on Wednesday, Feb. 8 at 12 PM

WHERE:

Lakeview Baptist Assembly in Lone Star, Texas

SPEAKER:

George  Brookover: Dealing with Conflict/ When the Trouble Comes

ACCOMODATIONS:

Register by e-mail:  Lnunn@windstream.net

     Phone inquiries:  903.794.6231

     Commuter $50, Overnight DBL $85, SGL $100

(If you require financial assistance please speak with Bill Taylor)

January 22 at 3 PM @ Linden First United Methodist Church

Workshops:

Finance – Mr. Ed Moore

Staff Pastor Parish (SPRC) – DS Rev. Bill Taylor

Trustees – Mr. Jerry Massey

Administrative Council – Mr. Carroll Greenwaldt

Missions – Rev. Richard Laster & Ms. Marty Vaughan

– All are welcome. Committee Guidelines available $3 –

Sponsored by: North District Leadership Team

More Information:  903-758-7003 & 903-794-6231

This year the North District will pioneer a new thing by holding Quadrant Charge Conferences on the weekend of November 12 and 13, 2011. We will gather in Mount Pleasant, Longview, Texarkana and Marshall. The added presence of our Bishop Janice Riggle Huie will enhance our experience together.

Prior to your scheduled charge conference you will need to work through your committees and Board to elect all officers (including the Lay Leadership Committee), approve your 2012 budget and Clergy Compensation Package for 2012. There will be two blanket motions taken at the Quadrant Charge Conferences. The first vote will be to elect new officers for 2012 and the second motion will be to accept the recommended clergy compensation package for 2012. This will apply to all churches attending the Joint Charge Conference. A list of Certified Lay Speakers and candidates to be certified for candidacy will be displayed and approved as well. If there is any business your church needs to conduct requiring my attention, contact me ahead of time and I will arrange time during the fall to meet with your church.

This year all the charge conference reports will be available online in the DOVE system at https://dove.ytscorp.com. Log on with your username and password. Click the Organization Records button at the top of the screen, then My Org, then Files and Notes on the left and you will find the table of contents of all the forms. Keep in mind your Audit Report is for the previous year (2010) and your Financial Statement is up to the current month. All charge conference reports and forms should be mailed to the Texarkana Office by November 1. Please call if you have any questions at 903.7946231.

I look forward to being with each of you and celebrating this past year in ministry with you and your church as we also hear a word from Bishop Huie. God bless you and thank you for your faithfulness and dedication in helping to extend the reign of God.

Grace and Peace,

Bill

Charge Conference Letter

Charge Conference Quad Chart

Charge Conference Checklist

All meetings are at 10:00 a.m. Please plan to attend one meeting per month at any location.

September 6 – Wiley College Julius S. Scott Chapel Conference Room, Marshall Texas. (This meeting on Tuesday because of Labor Day Weekend.)

September 12 – Greggton UMC, Longview, Tx

September 19 – First UMC, Pittsburg, Tx. (we will leave for “The Gathering 2011″ at Lakeview immediately following)

September 26 – Hardy Memorial UMC, Texarkana, Tx

A tarining session with Lonna Nunn and Anna M. Rhode on Charge Conference Reports will be held at each clergy quadrant meeting in September at 11:00 a.m. We encourage you to attend these trainings, and to invite you local church secretary, treasurers, committee members, etc…

Group Health Benefits has invited its participant’s carriers to join in for a

day of Q & A. It will be held in room 336 AB in the Hilton of Americas Hotel.

Attendance will be:

Boon-Chapman PPO

Script Care, LTD

Humana Dental/Vision

MHNet – Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

The Methodist Hospital

Humana – Medicare Advantage PPO (Senior Program)

Carlson Consulting – Group Health Benefits Consultant

Group Health Benefits  - Benefits Administrator

Leadership Enhancement for Local Pastors (Download flyer)

When emergencies arise – death, critical injury, marital conflict, violence – you often arrive first. Become a more confident pastor as you enhance your skills in responding to these situations.

Attend this Series of Six (6) Seminars at Lakeview Conference Center

When: Sunday Evenings (7pm – 9pm) and Mondays (8am – 4pm)

Seminar Dates: April 10/11; May 8/9; September 18/19; October 16/17; November 13/14; December 4/5

For Information Contact: Rev. Ted Smith Phone: 713-907-7876 Email: tsmith@samaritanhouston.org

Program Expense: Room and Board at Lakeview Standard Tuition Fee waived

Faculty Members: Ted Smith, D.Min. Ron Sunderland, Ed.D.

There is a “blue box” on Line 216. This is the last line of the report and is the Signature Line. You must enter something in this blue box or it will not consider the data entry step ever completed. In the attached I suggest using “OK” but anything will work.

It reminds you that the data entry person now has an approval step required that they did not have last year.

Also, to allow Vital Signs entry to be done on year 2010 items, the default “Start” and “Stop” dates of the Vital Signs entry area are set to start with October 1, 2010 through 12/31/2011 instead of 1/1/2011 through 12/31/2011. This keeps the last 3 months of the prior year visible so the end of year can be done without having to reset the start and stop dates and reload.

I got a question about that messing up the report day carry over, but it does not cause problems. Both the Transformation survey and Report Day report pull from Vital Signs, but each report knows it’s start and stop date for it’s reporting period and uses that to pull the correct data regardless of what you have displayed in Vital Signs entry. If they want to know what is being transferred to the report, they will need to set the display of Vital Signs to be 1/1/2010 to 12/31/2010 and do the “Reload Data” to see what is actually being transferred to the reports. Right now the default covers 15 months of vital signs and the totals at the bottom are for the full 15 months but that is not what the reports receive, the reports pull the correct calendar year entries that apply to the report. If the report did not know what to pull, we would not be able to go back and display a report from an old year and show correct numbers.

If any of this leads to any questions, please call.