Descriptions of Association Teams
1. Staff Team: The Staff Team shall consist of all personnel recognized by the Association as staff. The Executive Director shall serve as ex officio member of all teams, leading and coordinating the work of the association. The Staff Team shall handle the day-to-day work of the Association in keeping with Association’s job descriptions and operating procedures.
2. Administration Team: The Administration Team shall provide oversight and direction to the Association. Its responsibilities shall include carrying out duties assigned by the Executive Board; acting on behalf of the Association between Executive Board Meetings; overseeing all matters related to Associational personnel (hiring, job descriptions, benefits, salary, etc.); directing the Association in matters related to its existing property and major purchases; developing the Association budget; enlisting Team members; coordinating the Association calendar; planning and coordinating all matters related to the Annual Meeting and Executive Board Meetings; evaluating requests to join the Association; and appointing Associational representatives as needed.
3. Church Strengthening Team: The Church Strengthening Team shall develop and implement strategies to help bring health and vitality to local churches. Specific actions to consider include planning educational opportunities for church leaders; providing churches with training and consultation to foster discipleship and spiritual transformation; helping churches evaluate their ministries and discover new ways of fulfilling their purpose; providing support for particular events that promote spiritual health and vitality; cultivating opportunities for deeper relationships within churches and between churches; and equipping churches to fulfill their mission.
4. Church Planting Team: The Church Planting Team shall assist the Association and all of its churches become active participants in church planting. The Team will be involved in such activities as researching where new work needs to begin; identifying pockets of unreached people in our communities; recruiting and training potential church planters; exploring new ways of starting churches; educating and encouraging churches to become involved in church planting; motivating churches to become missional and evangelistic; mobilizing believers to live as missionaries in their communities; budgeting Associational funds to help establish new churches; prayer walking strategic areas for future work; encouraging, supporting and providing learning opportunities for church planters in the Association; and helping the Association and its churches stay focused and passionate about new work.
5. Ministry Team: The Ministry Team will seek to create and maintain ministries that help the Association’s churches work together and minister in our communities. Responsibilities of this Team include helping churches evaluate needed ministries; identifying opportunities for working cooperatively in existing ministries; providing information and organizing educational opportunities concerning new ministry opportunities; enlisting leaders and volunteers for Associational ministry teams; evaluating whether or not Associational ministries are effective; and providing oversight, support and encouragement for Associational ministries.
6. Partnership Missions Team: The Partnership Missions Team will facilitate cooperative missions participation between the Association and its churches beyond the local field of ministry. Responsibilities of this Team include leading the Association to explore and create new partnerships; identifying where Associational churches are already doing missions; networking churches to partner together in missions; promoting missions education and training in the Association; evaluating Associational partnerships; providing scholarships and other funding for partnership trips; and identifying and making available mission resources.
1. Staff Team: The Staff Team shall consist of all personnel recognized by the Association as staff. The Executive Director shall serve as ex officio member of all teams, leading and coordinating the work of the association. The Staff Team shall handle the day-to-day work of the Association in keeping with Association’s job descriptions and operating procedures.
2. Administration Team: The Administration Team shall provide oversight and direction to the Association. Its responsibilities shall include carrying out duties assigned by the Executive Board; acting on behalf of the Association between Executive Board Meetings; overseeing all matters related to Associational personnel (hiring, job descriptions, benefits, salary, etc.); directing the Association in matters related to its existing property and major purchases; developing the Association budget; enlisting Team members; coordinating the Association calendar; planning and coordinating all matters related to the Annual Meeting and Executive Board Meetings; evaluating requests to join the Association; and appointing Associational representatives as needed.
3. Church Strengthening Team: The Church Strengthening Team shall develop and implement strategies to help bring health and vitality to local churches. Specific actions to consider include planning educational opportunities for church leaders; providing churches with training and consultation to foster discipleship and spiritual transformation; helping churches evaluate their ministries and discover new ways of fulfilling their purpose; providing support for particular events that promote spiritual health and vitality; cultivating opportunities for deeper relationships within churches and between churches; and equipping churches to fulfill their mission.
4. Church Planting Team: The Church Planting Team shall assist the Association and all of its churches become active participants in church planting. The Team will be involved in such activities as researching where new work needs to begin; identifying pockets of unreached people in our communities; recruiting and training potential church planters; exploring new ways of starting churches; educating and encouraging churches to become involved in church planting; motivating churches to become missional and evangelistic; mobilizing believers to live as missionaries in their communities; budgeting Associational funds to help establish new churches; prayer walking strategic areas for future work; encouraging, supporting and providing learning opportunities for church planters in the Association; and helping the Association and its churches stay focused and passionate about new work.
5. Ministry Team: The Ministry Team will seek to create and maintain ministries that help the Association’s churches work together and minister in our communities. Responsibilities of this Team include helping churches evaluate needed ministries; identifying opportunities for working cooperatively in existing ministries; providing information and organizing educational opportunities concerning new ministry opportunities; enlisting leaders and volunteers for Associational ministry teams; evaluating whether or not Associational ministries are effective; and providing oversight, support and encouragement for Associational ministries.
6. Partnership Missions Team: The Partnership Missions Team will facilitate cooperative missions participation between the Association and its churches beyond the local field of ministry. Responsibilities of this Team include leading the Association to explore and create new partnerships; identifying where Associational churches are already doing missions; networking churches to partner together in missions; promoting missions education and training in the Association; evaluating Associational partnerships; providing scholarships and other funding for partnership trips; and identifying and making available mission resources.
