CONGREGATION SUPPORT AND RESOURCING UNIT

Congregation Support and Resourcing Unit (CSR)

Description (According to the Presbytery\'s Standing Rules)

This Unit is to support congregations in the strengthening of their current ministries, including resourcing in areas of worship, education, stewardship and evangelism. It also is to assist them with leadership training and in developing new initiatives. It is to foster networking and mutual resourcing between congregations, suggesting connections between congregations desiring to undertake, or already involved in, similar activities.

This Unit, in the past, has organized itself around seven areas of responsibility:

• Youth, including responsibility for coordinating tasks related to sending youth from our Presbytery to the Trienniums,
• Worship,
• Stewardship,
• Christian Education,
• Evangelism,
• Leadership Development,
• Resource Center

However, at this time, only the area of Christian Education has a Unit member who is consistently overseeing that area of responsibility. Currently, there are no task forces or committees organizing themselves around the other areas of responsibility, except that the Unit, as a committee of the whole, is a) reinventing the “resource center,” essentially dismantling the current Resource Center at the Presbytery office and attempting to develop access to resources through the internet, and b) beginning to gather information about multi-cultural worship resources.

MEMBERSHIP: The Congregation Support and Resourcing Unit is to have 12 members. Currently, there are four clergy and two elders who are elected and active members of this Unit. Two clergy and one elder are in the Class of 2008 and eligible for re-election to a second term. There are no members in the Class of 2010. Six vacancies remain, assuming those eligible for re-election are elected to a second term. Potential members should be willing to consider taking responsibility in one of the Unit’s areas of responsibility or have some ability to access resources through the Internet.
In addition to elected members to this Unit, others are invited to attend meetings and assist with responsibilities, especially including the Christian Educators’ fellowship.

MEETINGS: Currently, meetings are held three to five (3-5) times a year at the Presbytery office and last for about one and a halt to two hours. A subsequent meeting is scheduled at the conclusion of each meeting. Additional time may be needed for special projects or the ongoing work of a sub-unit, such as that concerned with Christian Education. the Class of 2009 and the Class of 2010

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