Minutes, June 10, 2010

Mission Task Force Minutes

June 10, 2010
St. Paul’s, Pawtucket

Attended: Jennifer Pedrick+, Standing Committee, Chair; Susan Wright, West Bay Deanery, Secretary; Ricky Brightman, Narragansett Deanery; Modesta Pellot, Diocesan Council; Brian Ehlers, Bishop’s Appointment, Master Blogger
Unable to attend: Bill Locke+, Chaplain; Fran Gammell-Roach, Standing Committee; Buck Close, Blackstone Deanery, David Isherwood, East Bay Deanery, Jim Segovis, Central Deanery; Pam Mott+, Aquidneck Deanery; Scott Nicholson, Bishop’s Appointment

The meeting opened at 7 pm with Worship in the Chapel. This was followed by a brief sharing about how we hope God will be present for us as summer approaches.

We decided that no further action was needed to wrap up the listening process. We discussed how we would distill the information gathered from the Listening Meetings during the past 2 months. It was decided that Jennifer would forward the reports from each meeting to each task force member. Task force members are to read all the reports, summarize their understanding of the responses to each question and be ready to give their perceptions to the task force at the next meeting.

We discussed the progress of Diocesan Council in evaluating the current mission priorities as well as the contact made with Program and Budget committee.

When we talked about the conversations we need to have with each other to discern next steps, we decided that it would be essential to get the whole Mission Task Force back together. Jennifer agreed to contact Jim and Brian agreed to contact Scott.

Ideas where generated on how we should approach the “Report to Convention.”

Next meeting is July 8 at 7:00 p.m. at St. Paul’s, Pawtucket.

The meeting closed with prayer at 8:45 p.m.

Respectfully submitted,
Susan Wright