On January 28th the Amalgamation Implementation and Steering Committee met by conference call due to a region wide snow storm. We heard of the great work done at the initial meetings of the subcommittees on Property, Finance, Transportation held on January 12 at St. John’s. As well, a team gathered on January 22nd to plan for a Community Roundtable event which will invite individuals from different organizations and agencies to discuss the needs of the city especially in the area of children and youth. The Community Roundtable results will be used to focus the vision for the new congregation. Volunteers will be needed at this event which will be held on Thursday, March 28 from 9:30 am - noon at Transfiguration. Your help at this event is much appreciated! There is a joint calendar on the amalgamation website for you to explore: www.oneinchristhamilton.weebly.com
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The Amalgamation Working Committee met on Monday, January 7, 2019, and, on the advice of the TUCC consultants, have changed their name to the Hamilton Lutheran Steering and Implementation Team. This new name not only reflects the second phase of amalgamation talks between the four congregations, but the specific work that they will be engaged in to put the final vision proposal together. Much work was done at the January 7th meeting and plans are well underway. Congregational delegates to the Finance, Property and Transportation subcommittees met for orientation on January 12th at St. John’s. As well, women from all four congregations gathered on January 12th for discussion and planning.
The Steering and Implementation Team and sub-committees will be guided by the following principles and encourage all congregational members to affirm that: - We will get to know each other better through working, worshiping, praying, and playing together. - We will work toward our shared vision-focused plan for ministry (the Amalgamation Vision Proposal) - We will recognize and honour each congregation’s traditions and be open to new things. - We embrace this time - from January through to June 2019 - as an opportunity to extend generous hospitality to each other: person to person, working group to working group, committee to committee; council to council. - We will use this opportunity to try out each other’s ways and habits of doing things. Please continue to keep our work toward amalgamation in your daily devotional prayers and corporately at worship. |
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