Agenda for next Advisory Leadership Team meeting

As promised, here’s the agenda for Chi Alpha’s upcoming Advisory Leadership Team meeting.

Agenda:

1. Review XA 2010 Implementation Team Work

  • Organizational chart and definitions
  • Executive Leadership Team, membership and duration, frequency of meetings
  • Area Director position and area maps
  • Task group goals summarized
    • Added Non traditional, church led and student led task group
    • Identified International Student Ministry Work Group and District Resource Team as similar to task groups to report activity and goals.

2. Calendar

  • The World Mission Summit
  • DXAR Conference
  • Campus Ministers Conference

3. Community of mission statement

4. Missionary furlough survey

5. Campus Ministers Conference

  • Larry Crabb
  • Patrick Lencioni

6. Suggestions for Department Directors

  • Student Ministries/ or Student Missions- E. Scott Martin
  • International Student Ministry – Jerry Gibson
  • Student Mobilization –
  • Campus evangelism –
  • Personnel – Bob Marks
  • Training and Resource
  • Communications

At this point I don’t have much info beyond that. I assume the names for CMC are potential speakers.

As you will note, we’ve created several new departments and so we need to recruit people to those roles. Suggestions are welcome. You can email me, call me, or leave a comment on the blog (just remember that comments can be read by everyone). I’m there to represent folks on the field, and I can do that more effectively if some folks on the field let me know their perspective on things. 🙂

Our Staff Reading Selections

Eat This Book: A Conversation in the Art of Spiritual ReadingCollege of the Overwhelmed : The Campus Mental Health Crisis and What to Do About ItThe Other Six Days: Vocation, Work, and Ministry in Biblical PerspectiveIn the Name of Jesus : Reflections on Christian LeadershipLectures to My StudentsNicomachean Ethics, 2nd Ed. (Hackett Publishing Co.)


These are the books our ministry team selected for our reading group.

We’re starting with the Nicomachean Ethics first. Paula and I spent some time looking at different translations (like the Bible, you can get Aristostle in King James through CEV flavoring). We settled on Terence Irwin’s translation as the most readable.

Encouraging Email From A Student

I just got a wonderfully encouraging email:

I haven’t been to a chi alpha meeting since that one time at the ‘obey your parents’ sermon, but I check out the mp3s every now and then and I think your sermons are great. I’d like to be more descriptive than that, but I’m fairly brain-dead tonight (can you say sleepdep?). Anyways, a big thanks to whoever does the recording and website work…I’m LOVING the google videos!

The potential hairstyle pictures were…great. More than great…really great. Maybe I should go to bed. I’ll try (harder) to actually come to a meeting before the quarter runs out!

Occasionally I wonder whether any students ever really listen to the stuff we put online. I guess they do.

It’s amazing how a little thing like that can totally make my day.