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Lay Coordinator Notes Safe Sanctuaries Education Church Web Sites
Division on Lay Life and Leadership seeks to strengthen the whole ministry of the Church by supporting people in attending church-related events and promoting a partnership of laity and clergy for the mission of the Church of Jesus Christ.
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Currently the chairperson of the Lay Life and Leadership Division George Tucker. Divison members are Bob Gwynne, representative to Executive Council, Gregg Nettesheim (recorder), Jeanne Marshall, Karen Williams, Bob Sichta, Brad Bergin, Walter Jackson and lay coordinator, Nancy Potter.
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Save the Date - October 2 - Resources for a Healthy Church
In lieu of a Fall Association Meeting the Christian Education Division and the Lay Life and Leadership
Division will sponsor an event Resources for a Healthy Church with two components, Growing Faith 1 to 101
and Finding, Revitalizing and Caring for Active Christians. It will be held at The Wisconsin Conference
Center in DeForest Wisconsin on Saturday, October 2 in the morning. More details are to follow but get in
on your calendar- plan now to have a group of your folks attend.
Just a reminder
Have you checked out the Conference opportunities?
Registrations for The Plunge are still open.
You have missed the first early bird registration for the 2010 statewide evangelism, Where is Your Neighbor?, so don't miss the second (Oct 10)! Learn where your neighbors are and how to reach them.
You can also sign up to receive Conference Life monthly on their website www.wcucc.org.
Safe Sanctuaries
Prepared by the Wisconsin Conference United Church of Christ
to encourage and resource churches to create a safe environment
for our children and youth. Every congregation is urged to plan and adopt Safe Sanctuary policies, training programs, procedures, a response plan and congregational education. The Safe Sanctuaries resources can be downloaded in MS Word or PDF file format.
Information about Creating a Website for Your Church
1. Check out the link on the national UCC website, http://www.ucc.org/god-is-still-speaking/church-resources/ to learn about the free web page option offered to churches that opt in to the God Is Still Speaking program.
2. Read through the excellent tutorial about developing a web site provided by the Massachusetts Conference, http://www.macucc.org/communication/websites/index.htm
3. Put together a committee of 5-6 individuals who have a good understanding of your church's ministries and programs and ask them to write the initial content for your web page. They will need to decide what information about your church might be most important to someone looking for a church. Check out the web pages of other churches to get ideas. There are links to all the Association churches that have websites on the Churches page.
4. Identify one individual member who has some technical expertise to put together your initial web site (a high school or technical college student) or look for a company who might be willing to develop your site as a way of advertising their skills or use the services provided by Webmedley.
5. Having a web presence where a potential member can find basic information about location, worship time, phone number and pastor's name is just as valuable as having a fancy site. Make a plan and develop your new web site over a period of time. Have fun, learn something new and know that this is yet another way that "God is Still Speaking,"
6. Finally here are some links that you could include on your web page:
National UCC web site: http://www.ucc.org
Wisconsin Conference web site: http://www.wcucc.org
SW Wisconsin Association web site: http://www.swwaucc.org
Still Speaking web site: http://www.stillspeaking.com
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