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The purpose of this page is to provide a central location for committee members to study and comment on current proposals without having to travel halfway across the state for meetings.

We will meet twice a year in person and attempt to do the rest of our work using available technology.
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New Mexico Annual Conference
of the United Methodist Church
Committee Instructions:

Please review each proposal and e-mail your thoughts, comments, suggestions to the group. I will gather the comments and make the appropriate changes.
If you need more background information, please e-mail me your questions or call.
Here are the highlights of what I learned at the New Church Development conference.  I hope this is what you were after.

1).  The conference had many great speakers.  Each was trying to motivate us to be more aggressive in starting new churches and reaching out to the members of our community.

2).  The breakout sessions were also very good.  The one pertaining to new church starts was most applicable, however, since I wasn't a pastor or a member of a church body that was planning a church plant/2nd campus I couldn't perform all the exercises as intended.  I did take the opportunity to speak to the instructor and ask his opinion about what he thought the role of a committee like ours should be.  Basically he thought our role was to 1) support pastors who show the desire to begin a new church or plant a church, 2) evaluate their desire and ensure they also have the skills necessary to make it happen, and 3) get out of their way!

3).  I also talked with the pastor of a new church start who was presented with an award at the conference.  I asked him the same question.  He thought it was important to find someone with passion, and drive.  A person who would pursue this dream at all costs, someone who wouldn't take no for an answer, a person who was CALLED to birth a new church.

4).  I had the opportunity to visit and worship with a church start that was a few years old.  The pastor provided training after the Sunday service for us.  He gave us lots of information!  He gave us copies of his budgets, copies of his mailings, ect.  Very practical information.
We also got to meet the staff and those core volunteers. 

        The one thing I held onto from his teachings, was how much he emphasized prayer.  He prayed over the neighborhoods in the community he was targeting before he did anything else and continued to pray over them as he began to get involved with the community, and as he established a core group of people to start this church.  The key elements I thought contributed to his success were 1) He was passionate about his calling, 2)he had a vision of the church he was trying to create, 3) he was accountable to his Superintendent, and 4) he had the organizational and creative talents to make it happen.