Long Range Planning Committee

 

TERMS OF REFERENCE
LONG RANGE PLANNING COMMITTEE
PURPOSE 
On behalf of the congregation, the Long Range Planning Committee would:
  • undertake a ministry of research, study and thought in order to help Orleans United
  • Church to be as prepared as possible to respond faithfully to the needs of its
  • membership, the surrounding community and the world around us
MEMBERSHIP 
  • Chair and Vice-Chair or Co-Chairs
  • Secretary
  • Members at large
RESPONSIBILITIES 
To review the congregation's Mission Statement regularly and help the congregation to:
  • revise it from time to time, or even to formulate new statements of our sense of God's
  • call to us. Such revisions or re-statements would be brought to the congregation for discussion and approval
  • to prepare long-term plans for Council (e.g. 5 years) that will identify areas of possible progress in various Church activities, programs and organizations, and to
  • monitor progress of the plan by recommending to Council short range programs that will contribute to long range goals or objectives
To seek to anticipate: 
  • demographic changes;
  • changing needs of the congregation and the community;
  • changing emphasis of the congregation's ministry;
  • the need to change or adapt the congregation's minstry of worship, pastoral care,
  • Christian development and outreach and social service
  • changes in staff -- ful-time and part-time, clergy and lay
LIAISON 
Two representatives are to be members of the Council, one of them being the Chair or Co-Chair. 
The Committee would be expected to consult with people in the congregation and the Orleans community as it carried out its on-going study. 
It would share information with the Communications Committee as needed and report to the Annual Congregational Meeting.
Revised April 2004