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Church Conference 101~ Getting Ready for your Church Conference

Location: Cornerstone UMC (41W170 Russell Rd, Elgin, IL 60124)

Event

Who:

Church Administrators & Office Staff; Pastors; SPRC, Finance & Trustee chairs; Membership secretaries

What:

Church Conference 101~ Getting Ready for your Church Conference
To help your church get ready, our 3 Regional Administrative Assistants will lead a hands-on Church Conference workshop in each of the regional areas in August. Church Administrators, office staff, pastors and key church leaders will benefit by attending.

How it pertains to our jobs: will answer the following…

  • What is a Church Conference (CC) and why is it important?
  • What is my role/what am I responsible for?
  • Where do I find the information I will need?
  • Who in my church is responsible for completing reports?
  • How do I organize for the CC?
  • What is our timeline – when are reports due?
  •  How do other churches get ready? (best practices/getting ideas from others)

When/Where: choose any of the following…


Tuesday, August 21 - Aurora/Elgin
Cornerstone UMC (41W170 Russell Rd, Elgin, IL 60124)
Questions, contact Natarsha Gardner, ngardner@umcnic.org; 847-931-0710 ext. 11

Wednesday, August 22 – Rockford/DeKalb 
Rochelle UMC (709 Fourth Ave, Rochelle IL 61068)
Questions, contact Betsy Smith, bsmith@umcnic.org; 815-561-8285

Wednesday, August 29 - Chicago Northwestern/Chicago Southern 
Olivet UMC (147 S Keeler Ave, Chicago, IL 60624)
Questions, contact Debbie Rogers, drogers@umcnic.org; 630-465-2941

Workshop Schedule:


9:00 am     Registration & Continental Breakfast
9:30 am     Workshop: Getting Ready for your Church Conference
12 noon     Dismissal

Workshop fee: $15 at the door – cash or check (payable to NIC PAUMCS) at the door

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