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The Mission Team – our purpose, subteams , etc.

The Mission Team – our purpose, subteams , etc. Mission Team. Vision: Establish our role with the mission sub teams. Mission Team Members. Rev. Tom Glasoe (Chair) Rev . Marcus Bigott Rev. Mike Coffey Rev. Jennifer Gold Mr. Dave Streilein Rev. Harvey Blomberg (Interim DEM)

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The Mission Team – our purpose, subteams , etc.

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  1. The Mission Team – our purpose, subteams, etc.

  2. Mission Team Vision: Establish our role with the mission sub teams

  3. Mission Team Members • Rev. Tom Glasoe (Chair) • Rev. Marcus Bigott • Rev. Mike Coffey • Rev. Jennifer Gold • Mr. Dave Streilein • Rev. Harvey Blomberg (Interim DEM) • Rev. Sue Briner

  4. Mission Team Structure • Subteams: • Mission Begins • Mission Builds • Mission Beyond • Essential Purpose for all three: • Equipping/empowering for mission • Mission team will function directly with #1 & will delegate #2 and #3 to other subteams

  5. Team 1: Mission Begins(in mutual ministry with the DEM) • Clients: SAWCs, CUDs, NEWMIS, restarts, multipoint parishes, other cooperatives, unchurched(incl. young adults) • Essential Purpose: Empower our clients for mission • Tasks to be Performed • Identify new mission opportunities • Develop and evaluate new mission opportunity criteria • Work with synod/ELCA leadership to reach consensus on new criteria • Implement the new criteria for new mission opportunities • Existing SAWCs, CUDS: • Identify leaders • Identify and allocate funding (budgets) • Scout, evaluate and secure potential spaces • Provide toolsets • Leadership: position description, minimum qualifications, expectations, training, ongoing learning opportunities • Spaces: • Funding: • Review ministries • Identify review teams (helping new ministries id strengths, challenges, ways that we can help) • Train review teams using ELCA evaluative tool • Identify synod-specific evaluative criteria • In conjunction with the Leadership Team , provide support systems for Pastor Mission Developers • Expected outcomes: • Each client has a clear understanding of why they’re there and what they’re supposed to be doing • Each client has specific goals for discipleship, outreach • Each client has internalized those goals • Each client is meeting/exceeding goals, expectations • Clients can and do end well when necessary • Share learnings to build upon for future ministry • Thriving, effective, context-relevant communities and leaders • Leaders feel connected and supported in the synod

  6. Team 2: Mission Builds • Clients: Existing Congregations (including youth and family) • Essential Purpose: Empower our clients for mission • Responsibilities: from mission team info -- helping congregations and individuals to grow in discipleship and better connect with their neighbors, and God’s mission • Tasks to be Performed: • Populate team – • Pastor with a discipleship focus: Russell Peek • Youth/young adult: Briana Morris? (TLLC), Kara Harrell Clark (Victoria) Sara Ehrich (San Marcos), Matt White • Cross Trails (Deanna Christiansen/Jay) • Missional/strategic thinkers: Ryan Pederson, Greg Gaskamp, PederSandager • Dawn Silvius or Steve Cox • Skip Wachsmann(interim @ TLLC) • Develop/consolidate what needs to be included in a mission plan (use LIFT resources as a starting point) • Provide training, templates and resources to enable each congregation to develop their own local mission plan (focused on deepening discipleship, reaching out to their neighbors, youth and families) • Determine how the team will support congregations in their youth and family ministries • Discern and evaluate what is currently being done in the synod re. Jr & Sr High Youth events, and empower new models for mission-focused youth ministry/activities (first survey what is already happening in the synod) • Expected Results: • Congregations feel they are supported by the synod in their ongoing mission & ministry • Each congregation has their own local mission plan based on their assets and abilities by Synod Assembly 2014 (and we will celebrate as a synod) • Healthy congregations who understand their call to discipleship • Increased outreach in the community through congregations (financial, “volunteer” engagement in community) • Note: stewardship team relates to this team, but is itself an asset team, headed by Paul Ziese

  7. Team 3: Mission Beyond! • Clients: Prison, campus, seminaries, hospital, hospice, military, camping, emerging, global missions • Essential Purpose: Engage our clients in support for mission • Team Leader: Eileen Spehr • Tasks to be Performed: • Populate team – Mike Ensrude? Doug Hester? Bob Thronson(member at Zion, retired pastor), Mike or Mary Huggins (Spirit of the Hills – has been in prison ministry), (Rev. Dr. George Reswik, Rev. Vern Gardai– check with Marcus), lay people who serve in counseling positions, Retired specialized ministers - Jim Benson, Ron Birk, Mark Gruebmeyer, Malcolm Hoffman, Harold Sager, Carolyn Schneider, Craig Sommer, Tom Wilkens. Greg Ronning • Identify specific specialized ministries, and who’s serving in them, and initiate contact with them • Survey these ministries to determine what would help them become more engaged in the synod and how the synod can support the mission they are doing • Suggest and develop venues for the engagement to happen • Explore how these specialized ministries’ missions support and extend the mission of the synod • In conjunction with the Leadership Team, provide support systems for Rostered Leaders in Specialized Ministry • Expected outcomes: • Build/strengthen relationships with and among our specialized ministries and ministers • Build/strengthen relationships with other leaders in the synod • Use survey results to develop engagement strategies and actions • Showcase these ministries to celebrate the diversity of our Church so that congregations connect to & support them • Leaders feel connected and supported in the synod • Specialized Ministries: see next page

  8. Specialized Ministries • Faculty: Rev. Dr. Jay Alanis, LSPS; Rev. Dr. Norm Beck, TLU; Rev. Dr. Phil Ruge-Jones, TLU, Rev. Dr. Tim Lincoln, Austin Pres. Theol. Sem. • Campus Pastors: Rev. James Bouzard, TSU; Rev. Paul Collinson-Streng, UT, Austin; Rev. Greg Ronning, TLU • Military Chaplains: Rev. Paul Cannon, Rev. T. Brady Eggleston, Chaplain Scott Ofsdahl • Cross Trails Development: Rev. Jennifer Gold • Mission Investment Fund: Rev. Pam Dorman • Lutheran Foundation of the Southwest: Anna Livingston, AIM, Austin • Haven for Hope, SA: Rev. Ann Helmke • Nursing Home Chaplain: Rev. Lucinda Zesch,Fredericksburg • Hospice: Rev. Darwin Huartson, Vitas Hospice, SA; Rev. Kay Johnson, Vitas Hospice, SA; Rev Marcia Kline, Hospice, Corpus Christi; Alicia Wills, Hospice, SA; Rev. Pam Brouker, Hospice Ministry, Austin • Counselor: Dr. Nick Wilkens, Seguin • Intentional Interim Ministry: Rev.Dave Seddelmeyer, Rev. Ann Koopman, Rev. Alan Watt

  9. Miscellaneous Ideas • Invite Phil Hinz of Calvary Lutheran in Richland Hills to speak with us re: new ministries & leadership development • Invite Nadia Bolz-Weber (remember there’s a group going in the spring)

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