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| * There will be an Extraordinary Meeting of the Congregation at 2pm on Sunday 17 Mar 2013 to hear and adopt the new church governance plans drafted as a result of CarolynKitto's [[ChurchLifeAndWitness|Life and Witness consultation]]. The home page for all church future planning is at ChurchFutureDirections. * We recently received this encouraging good news. Council and Property Committee are delighted to receive a complimentary message! {{{ Property Committee Glen Waverley Uniting Church I would like to congratulate the Property Committee on the new hearing loop recently installed in the church. For the first time in many years I can hear the sermon and all announcements made with the microphone. Also it now appears to cover most of the seats in the church whereas the previous loop (when it worked) was confined to the centre of the church. This is much appreciated. I still have problems hearing people speaking from the body of the church without the microphone but this is a minor problem compared to that of previously being able to hear nothing at all in church. Having had to depend on hearing loops to hear at many conferences and theatres I have been able to sample many different installations and have no hesitation in saying that the present installation in our church is by far the best I have experienced anywhere. I would therefore appreciate it if I could have the name and address of the firm which installed it so that I can recommend them to other organisations I come across putting up with hearing loops that do not work. Thanks for making our church services more meaningful to me once again. Frank Burns. }}} * The latest copy of the Presbytery newsletter is at [[attachment:PresbyteryPage/Newsbeat201302.pdf|Newsbeat (Feb 2013)]] |
* at the Congregational Meeting on 17 Mar 2013, it was resolved: * to appoint Warren Bartlett as Chairperson of the Congregation; * to affirm the Kitto report as being where they would like to get to in July 2013; and * to approve the Chair of Congregation to establish a Steering committee lead by the Rev Brace Bateman to facility the implementation of the Kitto structure. The committee is to consider the issues of preferred numbers for the new Church Council, transition arrangements for existing elders who may not be elected to the new Church Council and conversations with existing Church Councillors on the best way through to the new structure for them. The membership of that committee is to be advised to the congregation by the Chair of Congregation. ''(posted <<DateTime(2013-03-19T13:08:08+1100)>>)'' |
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| * Agenda for the Congregational Meeting on [[CongMeetingAgenda20121126|26 Nov 2012]], followed by [[CongMeetingMinutes20120618|minutes of 18 Jun 2012 meeting]] | * for recent agenda papers, please see the ChurchFutureDiections page. |
The TARDIS
This page is the Home Page for the Glen Waverley Uniting Church wiki page, known as TheTardis.
Latest News
- at the Congregational Meeting on 17 Mar 2013, it was resolved:
- to appoint Warren Bartlett as Chairperson of the Congregation;
- to affirm the Kitto report as being where they would like to get to in July 2013; and
- to approve the Chair of Congregation to establish a Steering committee lead by the Rev Brace Bateman to facility the implementation of the Kitto structure. The committee is to consider the issues of preferred numbers for the new Church Council, transition arrangements for existing elders who may not be elected to the new Church Council and conversations with existing Church Councillors on the best way through to the new structure for them. The membership of that committee is to be advised to the congregation by the Chair of Congregation.
(posted 2013-03-19 02:08:08)
Old news is archived on the PreviousNewsItems page.
Quick Links
Note that many of the pages linked from these quick links may have access control on them. You will need to visit the CreateUserAccount if you do not have an account on this wiki.
CongregationalPage (this page deliberately placed first)
Information about current planning for the long term future of this church.
for recent agenda papers, please see the ChurchFutureDiections page.
ChurchWorshipServices (for information and comment on the different styles of worship that we offer)
Annual reports of groups in the congregation 2012(still growing), 2011, 2010, 2009
There are two calendars, GWUC Diary for church events and Bookings for bookings for external groups.
CouncilPage and council committees. Check this page for all council matters, such as Copyright Issues, CouncilPolicies and Job Descriptions
Most recent minutes (joint Council/Elders): CouncilMinutes20130123 - this is accessible to all logged in church members
Last minutes: CouncilMinutes20130219 - Provisional. Not yet confirmed.
Next agenda: CouncilAgenda20130319 - restricted to council members only
Ecumenical: we are members of the Glen Waverley Inter Church Council, and follow their Prayer List.
EldersPage, including the Current Elders Roster.
- Events
The ChurchFete
Key Dates for events in the church calendar are shown at EventsKeyDates
FundRaisingEventsCalendar2013 (last year FundRaisingEventsCalendar2012)
combined services during 2013 - see RosterPreaching
Giving to Glen Waverley UCA; a guide to giving options and processes.
- Group Lists
MasterGroupList (lists all church groups)
Group contacts' page (the list of contact persons for groups, and information for those persons)
MailingLists (gives the mailing lists available)
- Groups
- (other groups are welcome to add their group pages to this list)
HowToUseTheChurchWiki - getting started in using the wiki. Recently added is a section on Attachments.
WikiTipOfTheDay gives a list of all the wiki tips
ChurchDatabase - information about the church database
Group contacts' page - information for the contacts persons of groups.
ChurchComputerSystems - more technical information about the above and our other computer systems.
- Mission Activities
The OnTheWayTogether journey, resulting in the 4 mission groups of our church:
The SuggestionBox is available to take your comments about any aspect of church life.
The Port Phillip East Presbytery - information about the Presbytery and our relationship with it.
What's a Wiki?
A wiki (from the Hawaiian word for 'quickly') is a web page set up for interactive use. That means that you can edit and add content to it, and even create new pages, without needing to know any technical details of how web pages work.
While this may seem daunting at first, it gives the wiki pages great power as a tool for communicating information and knowledge. Think 'Wikipedia' and you will understand the immense power that comes from making the web pages open to all contributors. There has never been an information tool as powerful as a wiki in the whole history of the human race!
This does come with some caveats. There are people around who will attempt to subvert such a constructive tool, simply because it is constructive. This means we have to go to some effort and inconvenience to manage such attempts. The most obvious one is that we want you to identify yourself, and for this, we use a username/password combination, also known as an account. Such accounts are easy to setup, and once you have one setup, we can authorize you to interact with the wiki pages.
First Time Visitors, Read This!
If you want to create a new account, visit the CreateUserAccount page. That page gives step-by-step instructions to help you create an account for use with this wiki. If this doesn't work, click JohnHurst!
If you want help on how to use the wiki, see the HowToUseTheChurchWiki page. You might prefer to use the week-by-week introduction used in the ChurchBulletin at BulletinWikiArticles.
If you are an Elder or Church Councillor, you need to be aware that the pages for those two groups mentioned below (Council Stuff, Elders Stuff) are restricted to those recorded on the Elders Group and Council Group pages, and you will need a user account and password before you can be added to these pages. Email <ajh AT SPAMFREE internode DOT on DOT net> for help with this.
Other church users can browse most of the pages without using an account, but you will generally need an account if you want to write to the pages in any way. Again, JohnHurst can help with this.
From time to time, it is planned to run workshops on the use of the wiki. Please contact JohnHurst or DavidMorgan if you want to attend one of these. You can see the list of people who have attended a previous workshop at the TrainedPeopleGroup page.
The Mission Matrix
The MissionMatrix page shows how we plan to divide up mission across our four OnTheWayTogether themes. Within the OnTheWayTogether page, the concepts and mission of each theme is developed. These are meant to be dynamic pages, changing to reflect the current state of these missional themes. The four themes are: FaithCommunity, InclusiveCommunity, CommunityHub, and CommunityOutreach.
Why a Wiki?
To see why I'm keen to see the wider use of a wiki in our church, read this interesting article about some recent Wollongong University research. It is titled "Creating Successful Knowledge Management Systems Using Wikis", and discuss how wikis are useful to the corporate knowledge - all that stuff about the running of the church (in our case) that is locked up in peoples' heads, and seldom committed to paper. As the authors say, it is in the best interest for management to support the Wiki as a knowledge management system because the Wiki will be maintained by corporate knowledge workers, those who acquire and disseminate living knowledge.
One thing that I think constrains people NOT to undertake leadership roles in our church is their fear of what they don't know. As Church Council Chair, I have been gobsmacked by the number of things happening in our church of which I was previously quite unaware. We are a big place - it is difficult for any one person to grasp all the nuances of things happening around the congregation. So what do we do? We "leave it to the experts", which is why the same 'usual suspects' bob up in the leadership roles around the church. I have far more faith in human nature than that - I think we can all take on leadership roles, and it is just the fear of the unknown that prevents us. This article suggest how using a wiki can get a handle on the "corporate knowledge" that lies behind a (relatively) large church organization like ours. JohnHurst