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“Role Descriptions\u00e2\u20ac\u009d of Elder Team (including the Church Planter\/Pastor)<\/p>\n
Commission Elder: <\/strong> Communion Elder: <\/strong> Community Elder: <\/strong> Collaboration Elder:<\/strong> Church Planter\/Pastor of Veritas: <\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00ef\u20ac\u00a0Spends time in Theological reflection (UP) \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00ef\u20ac\u00a0Spends time becoming a Student of scripture (UP) Elders meet at least monthly. The monthly meeting will include prayer, sharing from each Elder about what is going on in their area of responsibility (UP efforts, IN efforts, OUT efforts, and Administrative details- financial report, etc\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6), vision plans, dreaming together, and strategic planning for the future. Elders are responsible for the day to day, month to month work of the church. The Church Planter\/Pastor is part of the Elder Team, has a vote within the Elder Team and is ultimately accountable to the Elder Team. The Elder Team is also responsible for the yearly church budget. <\/p>\n Community Gathering- The Elders convene a Community Gathering twice a year with the entire community to share vision for the future, reports from each Elder about progress in their areas of responsibilities, and the Collaboration Elder presents the Budget for the Community to vote on. These twice a year Community Gatherings happen in April and October (right now during the IN Sunday Gathering.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So the last time that I wrote anything for Emergent Brethren I mentioned our Monthly Rhythm for our gatherings. I shared about our desire to live out (as individuals and as a community) the OUT, UP, IN 3 Dimensional life of a disciple of Jesus. As I began to do some more thinking about this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,21,23,15,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-planting","category-community","category-leadership","category-ministry-formation","category-missional"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emergentbrethren.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emergentbrethren.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emergentbrethren.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emergentbrethren.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emergentbrethren.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/emergentbrethren.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emergentbrethren.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emergentbrethren.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emergentbrethren.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nVision: To see that we at Veritas serve and bless people in real and practical ways.
\n1. Partner with Pastor Ryan on planning OUT events, activities, and gatherings. (Getting Artists for 1st Friday, Musicians for 3rd Friday, connecting with Non-Profits to serve with, etc\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6)
\n2. Plan (with Pastor Ryan) the monthly OUT Sunday (currently 1x a month)
\n3. Train, meet, resource, and network with the Missional Communities OUT Leaders.
\n4. Develop ways, ideas, and dreams of getting OUT into the world and blessing it and means of getting the word out about Veritas.
\n5. Meet monthly with Pastor\/Church Planter and Elder team. <\/p>\n
\nVision: To create regular opportunities of relevant worship experiences, not as consumers but participating in and creating the worship that is taking place, with people connecting worship on Sunday with their worship on Monday through Saturday.
\n1. Partner with Pastor Ryan on planning the Corporate UP Gatherings (2x a month), the sermon series planning, and what each Missional Community is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153studying\u00e2\u20ac\u009d during their UP Gatherings.
\n2. Train, meet, resource, and network with the Missional Communities UP leaders.
\n3. Develop in Partnership with Pastor Ryan a discipleship process for Veritas.
\n4. Creating, Overseeing, and working on teams that help the Corporate UP Gatherings come together. (Musical team, Children\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Ministry Team, Multimedia Team)
\n5. Meet monthly with Pastor\/Church Planter and Elder team. <\/p>\n
\nVision: To help Veritas become a community full of love, grace, compassion, and mercy, following in Jesus\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 footsteps.
\n1. Partner with Pastor Ryan on planning IN events, activities and gatherings that strength the relational community.
\n2. Train, meet, resource and network with the Missional Communities IN Leaders.
\n3. Create, Oversee and work on a Hospitality Team for our Corporate UP Gatherings.
\n4. Plan (with Pastor Ryan) the monthly IN Sunday (currently 1x a Month)
\n5. Meet monthly with the Pastor\/Church Planter and Elder team.<\/p>\n
\nVision: To see that Veritas honors and glories God in the areas of stewardship and strategic development.
\n1. Partner with Pastor Ryan on funding initiatives.
\n2. Develop Community Room as a consistent revenue stream
\n3. Serve as Treasurer to collect and deposit offering (work with supportive church book keeper). Eventually the Collaboration Elder will oversee an \u00e2\u20ac\u0153in-house\u00e2\u20ac\u009d financial team responsible for keeping the books, and all financial matters. Helps develop the budget in partnership and in conversation with the elder team (including the Pastor\/Church Planter.
\n5. Meet monthly with the Pastor\/Church Planter and Elder team. <\/p>\n
\nVision: To live out, embody and help the Veritas community to live out and embody the mission and vision of being a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Missional Community of Authentic Worshippers.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d
\nRole Description for Church Planter\/Pastor<\/p>\n
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00ef\u20ac\u00a0Spends time in Spiritual disciplines and prayer (UP)
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00ef\u20ac\u00a0Spends time in reflection, and discernment regarding the church and the culture (OUT)
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00ef\u20ac\u00a0Encapsulate the community with the biblical narrative (UP)
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00ef\u20ac\u00a0Teaches and guides the community through encounters with Scripture, rather than information alone (UP)
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00ef\u20ac\u00a0Develops opportunities to engage the context of the neighborhood, and to personally be a neighbor (OUT)
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00ef\u20ac\u00a0Develops and unleashes the core leadership to the fullness of their potential (IN)
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00ef\u20ac\u00a0Facilitates learning\/discerning environments (IN and UP)
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00ef\u20ac\u00a0Develops the ability to prioritize missional essentials for the team and able to let other things go (IN, UP, and OUT)
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00ef\u20ac\u00a0Models interdependent style of leadership (IN)<\/p>\n
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00ef\u20ac\u00a0Spends time becoming a Student of culture (OUT)
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00ef\u20ac\u00a0Is Relationship oriented \u00e2\u20ac\u201c ability to engage in genuine and authentic conversation (OUT and IN)
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00ef\u20ac\u00a0Is a Risk taker for the Kingdom, where mistakes are allowed (OUT)
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00ef\u20ac\u00a0Develops a Strategic discipleship plan that calls the congregation to be ministers to others (UP)
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00ef\u20ac\u00a0Engages with a Spiritual director, ministry mentor, and support team for growth and accountability (UP)
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00ef\u20ac\u00a0Has Healthy self-awareness; self-learning (IN, UP)
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00ef\u20ac\u00a0Develops Courage (OUT)<\/p>\n