Summary of Positions and Opportunities To Serve
Community Mennonite Church , 2006-2007 – Job Descriptions & Needs
Congregational Chair (Full Member)
(3 year term)
Carry-over: Sue Swartz 07
Responsibilities: Chairing council and congregational meetings, being available as needed to coordinate the decision-making work of the congregation and committees.
Congregational Vice-Chair (Full Member)
(2 year term vice, 2 years chair)
David Cockley 08
Responsibilities: Assisting Chair as needed.
PASTORAL TEAM
Pastor-Congregation Relations Committee
(2 year term)
Linda Gnagey 08
Carry-over: Don Yoder 07, Nancy Heisey 07, Hugh Stoll 07
Responsibilities: Providing support & advocacy for Pastoral Team.
* Administration Commission
1. Administration Commission Chair
(3 year term)
Terry Burkhalter 07
Responsibilities: Coordinating communications between the Council and the Administration Commission, coordinating efforts of the Administration Commission.
2. Finance Committee (3 year term)
Carry-over Chair: Dale Lehman 09
Carry over; Randy Reichenbach 07; Rick Yoder 08
Church Treasurer
Responsibilities: Managing financial concerns of the congregation.
3. Church Treasurer (3 year term)
Carry over: Chris Gingerich 07
Responsibilities: Serves as resource person for church secretary, and payroll taxes. Every 1-2 weeks signs checks. Is the check and balance person for secretary and serves on Finance Committee.
4. Property Committee (2 year term)
Chair Carry-over: Myron Lind 06, David Stenson 08, Harry Showalter (Mr. Fix-it)
Responsibilities: Overseeing the maintenance and renovations of the building and physical property. Committee determines who sits on Commission.
5. Rental Manager (3 year term)
Carry-over: Richard Pfamatter 08
Responsibilities: Advertising and managing available space in the church building for rental, serving on Property Committee and Administration Commission.
6. Archivist (3 year term)
Wilma Gingerich 07
Responsibilities: Collecting news clippings of
church activities and members, collating attendance records, filing historical documents and submitting documents to the archives of EMU.
7. Grants Committee (3 year term)
Carry Over: Cindy Lamb 07, Melissa Rudacille 08
Carry-over: MMA Rep.; EMHS Reps.; Rep. from Finance Committee
Responsibilities: Administering Compassion Fund requests, grants for high school and college students, and grants for voluntary service assignments. The committee elects its chairperson.
8. Legal Trustees
Carry Over: Dale Lehman, Fred Moshier, Harry Showalter
9. Library Committee (2 year term)
Carry-over: Kathy Stoll 07, Amy Ruebke 07
Responsibilities: Managing church library.
10. Nursery Committee (2 year term)
Need 2
Carry-over: Gen Moyer Groff 07, Rosemary Good 07
Responsibilities: Planning and managing the nursery, including both staffing and facilities. The committee elects its chairperson
11. Offering Counters (2 year term)
Head - David Cockley 08, Fred Moshier 07, Delbert Wenger 07, Eileen Gingerich 08, Bill Wightman 08
Sub: Linda Pfamatter
12. Office and Technology Committee
(2 year term)
Mark Metzler Sawin 07, Tom Sawin 07, Delbert Wenger 07, Jeremy Good 08, Office Administrator
Responsibilities: Making decisions concerning audio-visual equipment and office equipment needed at CMC. The committee elects its chairperson
* Community Life Commission
Meg Wightman is part of this Commission.
1. Chair and Council Rep (3 year term)
Louise Hostetter 07
2. Adult Christian Education Committee
(2 yr term)
need 1
Carry-over: Meg Wightman (Pastoral Team);
Ray Gingerich 07, Rita Finger, Dorothy Jean Weaver 08
Responsibilities: Planning and coordinating adult studies.
3. Hospitality Committee (2 year term)
need 1
Carry-over: Julie Alderfer Stauffer 08, Jan Jenner 08, Rita Lehman 08 , Vi Miller
4. Small Group Committee (2 year term)
Carry over: Brian Burkholder 08, Lonnie Yoder 07, Mary Ann Kreider 07 Meg Wightman (pastoral team rep)
5. Welcomers (2 year term)
Chair – Millard Osborne, Erika Metzler Sawin 07, Greta Kreider 07, Tina Beachy 08, Anna Bishop 08, Kathy Stoll 08, Louise Hostetter 08
Responsibilities: Persons to be Sunday morning “Welcomers” especially to visitors and newcomers to CMC.
6. Lending List Committee (2 year term)
Dwayne Martin 08, Jamey Groff 08, Wayne Teel 08, Lee Good 08, Matt Carlson 08, Teresa Boshart Yoder 07
Responsibilities: Coordinate and facilitate the method in which CMCers can lend items to each other.
7. Retreat Coordinators (2 year term)
Needed: 2 persons
Steve Johnson 08, Andrea Wenger 07, Delo Blough 07, Meg Wightman (pastoral team rep)
Responsibilities: Organizing and coordinating the annual Fall Retreat (except for program input).
8. Retreat Food Committee for 2006
Carmen Wyse Gehman, Reagan Eshleman, Marsha Thomas
9. Valley Mennonite Church League Representative (1 year term)
Ken Roth 07
Responsibilities: Representing CMC in Valley Mennonite Church League and coordinating church involvement.
Outreach Commission
Ray Hurst is part of this Commission.
1. Chair and Council Rep (3 year term)
Sam Miller 07
2. Community Child Center Preschool Board Representatives (2 year term)
Needed: 2 person for 2 yrs
Selected by Board
Carry-over: Anne Marie Early, Gary Flory (chair), Joyce Osborne
Responsibilities: Serving as a liaison between the Center and CMC, attending quarterly board meetings, and one member reporting to Evangelism and Outreach Committee.
3. Jail Ministry Coordinator (2 year term)
Carry-over: needed
Responsibilities: Coordinating women for monthly jail visits.
4. Patchwork Pantry Committee (Term?)
Selected by Board
5. REACH Coordinators (2 year term)
need 1
Carry-over: Jane Wenger Clemens 07, Wendy Gerlach (through Dec. ’06)
Responsibilities: Administering the REACH Program, representing CMC to “People Helping People,” reporting to Evangelism and Outreach Committee.
6. EMHS Advisory Board Representative
(2 yr term)
need 1
Carry over: Andrea Wenger 07, Bly Brown
Responsibilities: Representing EMHS to the congregation, serving on the Parents' Advisory Council. Serves on Grants Committee.
7. Highland Retreat Contact Person
( 3 year term)
Brian Martin Burkholder 08
Responsibilities: Facilitating communication between Highland Retreat and the congregation.
8. Menn. Disaster Service Representative
(3 yr. Term)
Sam Miller 08
Carry-over: none
Responsibilities: Presenting MDS opportunities and information to the congregation.
9. Health and Wellness Promoter/MMA Representative (3 year term)
Carry-over: Julie Alderfer Stauffer 07, Alden Hostetter 07
Responsibilities: Serving as a resource for health and wellness information and coordinating educational events that promote physical, mental and emotional health and wellness for persons within the congregation. Serves on Grants Committee.
10. Pleasant View Homes Contact Person
(3 yr. term)
Carry-over: Dwayne Martin 08
Responsibilities: Facilitating communication between PVH and the congregation.
11. Gift And Thrift representative
Sam Miller 07
12. Virginia Conference Delegates
(3 year term)
Carry-over: Pastors; Lonnie Yoder 08
Jennifer Ulrich 07,
Responsibilities: Attending conference as a voting delegate and reporting actions to the congregation, reviewing conference events and issues with the congregation, attending Harrisonburg District Council Meetings.
13. Virginia Mennonite Home
Auxiliary/VMRC Representative (3 yr. term)
Carry-over: Dan Beachy 07
Responsibilities: Attending meetings and informing the congregation of activities of the Auxiliary, facilitating communication between the congregation and VMRC.
14. Virginia Relief Sale (3 year term)
Carry-over: Jim Miller 07
Responsibilities: Attending area meetings and promoting congregational involvement at the relief sale.
15. Evangelism and Outreach Committee
(2 yr term)
Need 1
Carry-over: Ray Hurst (Pastoral Team Rep.);
Hadley Jenner 08, Don Yoder 07, Vi Horst 08
Additional members: Patchwork Pantry Rep., Community Child Center Preschool Rep., REACH Coordinators, Jail Rep.
Responsibilities: Exploring and facilitating congregational evangelism and outreach. Additional members serve only to represent and communicate their own activities and needs.
* Worship Commission
Ray Hurst is part of this Commission.
1. Chair and Council Rep (3 year term)
Brenda Martin Hurst 09
2. Music Coordinator (2 year term)
Carry Over: Matt and Monica Carlson 08
3. Worship Arts Committee (2 year term)
Anna Maria Johnson 08, Gloria Rhodes 07, Greta Kreider 07, Jen Ulrich 08
Responsibilities: Providing visual aids and other art forms for congregational worship services.
4. Worship Commission Members
(2 year term)
Ray Hurst (Pastoral Team Rep);
Chair - Brenda Martin Hurst 08, Linda Martin Burkholder 07, Ted Swartz 08, Michael Ann and Jeremy Nafziger 08
MYF Rep.; Worship Arts Rep.
Responsibilities: a working group to shape the worship vision for the congregation, general direction for worship planning, and follow-through on delegation and implementation of worship plans.
Chair responsibilities: serve as point person to follow-through and delegate responsibilities for leadership of specific worship services as well as chair meetings.
Other committee that works independently under Worship Commission:
Ushers and Greeters (2)
Sound System Volunteers
5. Ushers and Greeters Committee
(2 year term)
Dan Beachy 08 -chair, Richard Pfamatter 07, Jim Bishop (sub) Ker Ferdinand 07, Wayne Sneary 07 Logan Simenson 07, David Cockley 08, Dorothy Jean Weaver 08, Jan Jenner 08
6. Sound System Volunteers (2 year term)
Jim Miller 08 chair, Kirk Shenk Zehr 08, Delbert Wenger 08, Terry Burkhalter 08, Ray Horst 07, Wayne Gehman 07, Jonathan Yoder 08
Responsibilities: Providing audio-visual coordination for all worship services. Reports to Office and Technology Committee.
* Youth Commission
Youth Council provides long-range planning and evaluation of all CMC programs for children and youth. Membership in the Youth Council consists of persons serving in the following capacities, indicated by the symbol (YC) after the position title.
Ray Hurst sits on YC because he has youth ministry responsibilities. Jason Gerlach (youth minister)
1. Chair and Council Rep (3 year term)
Dave Detrow 09
2. Jr. MYF Sponsors (Grades 6-8) (YC)
(2 year term)
Dave and Judith McCarty 07, Sue Klassen and Johann Zimmerman 07, Serrels 08
Responsibilities: Planning and announcing Jr. MYF meetings and activities. Meet with pastoral rep quarterly to reflect on current needs.
3. Mentor Program Coordinator (YC)
(2 year term)
Rosemary Good 08
Carry-over: Katrina Swartz 07
Responsibilities: Coordinating the Mentor Program: helping 6th Grade youth choose a mentor, resource mentor relationships as necessary.
4. MYF Sponsors (Grades 9-12) (YC)
(2 yr term)
Carry-over: Joe Yoder 08, Nancy Showalter 08, Ben and Anna Wyse 07
Responsibilities: Planning and announcing MYF meetings and activities. Meet with pastoral rep quarterly to reflect on current needs.
5. Parent Representative to Youth Council
(YC) (2 year term)
Carry-over: Lee Good 07, Betty Shenk 08
Responsibilities: Representing concerns of parents on Youth Council.
6. Sunday School Superintendent (YC)
(2 yr. term)
Assistant Superintendent - 1st year
Superintendent – 2nd year
Superintendent – Jen Ulrich 07
Gen Moyer Groff 08
Responsibilities: Planning and coordinating the children's Sunday School program, and serving short-term on Gifts Discernment Committee (Spring), also serves on Children's Nurture Commission.
7. Venture Club Sponsors (Grades 3-5) (YC)
(2 year term)
Greta & Jonathan Leinbach Kreider 08 Terri and Ken Roth 07, Harold and Nellie Shenk Moreno 07
Responsibilities: Planning and announcing Venture Club meetings and activities.
8. Bible School Committee (YC) (2 yr term)
Marcia Zook 07
Sandy Burkhalter 07
Jodi Hertzler
Responsibilities: Planning and administering the summer Bible School Program.
9. Nurture Committee (2 year term)
need 2
Carry-over: Kathy Stoll 07, Jennifer North Bauman 07, S.S. Superintendent; Pastor Ray Hurst, Tim Ruebke
Responsibilities: To work together closely with S.S. Superintendents in overseeing the Christian education programming for children and youth.