Do Justice. Love Kindness. Walk humbly with God. Micah 6:8

Do Justice. Love

Kindness. Walk humbly with

God.Micah 6:8

Do Justice. Love

Kindness. Walk humbly with

God.Micah 6:8

Do Justice. Love Kindness. Walk

humbly with God.


humbly with God.


humbly with God.


humbly with God.

Indiana Annual Conference Briefing

2011


2011


humbly with God.


humbly with God.


2011


2011

WELCOME

David V. W. OwenExecutive Assistant to

Bishop Mike Coyner

Preparing for our Third Annual ConferenceBall State University Muncie June 8-11


Overview of Conference

Provide you information

Highlight key directions

Focus on action items


Discussion time for Q&As

Please hold your questions.

Write them down.


Know how to prepare for Annual Conference

Understand where to go

Be informed about actions


RADICAL HOSPITALITY

OVERVIEW

We are a denomination of congregations.

OVERVIEW

OVERVIEW

Your congregation is connected to every

other United Methodist Church in the world.

OVERVIEW

Your congregation is a direct expression

of our response to Jesus command.

OVERVIEW

Your congregation is connected to other

congregations through Annual Conference.

Nearly 3,500 members.

OVERVIEW

Membership is half laity and half clergy.

OVERVIEW

… changing the world by changing lives.

OVERVIEW

Our worship times together and our fellowship

Thursday, Teaching Day

MarciaMcFee

Keynote leader

marciamcfee.com

Stump Ministry

• Publicly proclaim God’s work through music, Scripture or proclamation

• Contact Shannon Stringer

• sstringer @ stjoemin.com

• 260-485-9681 ext. 26

• Stop by hospitality table

Make friends, Renew friendships

District Lay Leader

Indiana Annual Conference SessionBall State University Muncie June 8-11

First

First

First

SecondRegister indoors at the Student Recreation & Wellness CenterIrving Gym 2Two blocks north of Emens

Wednesday from noon to 8 p.m.Thursday from 7:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.From then on, register in lobby of Emens

Laity Session on Wednesday

Emens Auditorium is central.


All Plenary Sessions

Worship and Teaching



Displays of organizationsLike Operation Classroom,Cokesbury and others,plus the Conference Prayer Room

ORDINATION


GETTING READY

Sponsored Meals,Food Courts,Help Desk,

Per Diem limited,Hospitality Tent,

GETTING READY



GETTING READY



GETTING READY

GETTING READY

Hospitality Team

Shannon Stringer

sstringer @ stjoemin.com

260-485-9681 ext. 26

Special Needs, Hospitality for

Disabled members. See Packet page 3.Shuttle Service,

Ball State Parking and the…

GETTING READY

Special Needs, Hospitality for

Disabled members. See Packet page 3.Shuttle Service,

Ball State Parking and the…

GETTING READY

Operation Classroom Ingathering

Conference Plenary Session

Led by Bishop Mike Coyner

Conference Plenary Session

Bar of the Conference

Main floor of Emens

Addressing the Conference


Name, church, issue


To make a motion …


Write your motion.Sign and date it.


Give it to the secretary.


VOTING

Questions &Answers

Please write questions for later discussion. Thank you.

State of the Church

Ten areas of ministry

Jim BushfieldDirector of Connectional

Ministries

Our mission giving and mission involvement remains high.


Volunteers in MissionDollars given beyond tithe to missions, Advance Specials

Hoosier volunteers = 5,000+Days of service = 34,000

Hoosiers gave $738,000 for VIM projects.



Missions & Advance Specials = $3 million


Action: Indiana Conference Advance Special Process


HIGHER EDUCATION AND CAMPUS MINISTRY CONFERENCE TEAM MODEL PROPOSAL

Campus Ministry Affinity

Group

Campus Discipleship

Team

Leadership Development

(MOVE, local church training, new initiatives)

Volunteer-based local church

campus outreach

Higher Education

Institutions (As related to the Institutional

Table)

Student Movement

ProfessionalCampus Ministers

Our camping ministry is moving forward.



In 2010, we serve3,200 campersacross Indiana



495 first time commitments to follow

Jesus Christ


213 students answered the call to Christian vocation.

The Right Time Campaign


Duecker Lodge at Epworth Forest



Action: Case support for future capital projects

Dedication of Duecker Lodge at Epworth, June 4, 10 a.m.


We have launched the Rejuvenate Project


Project Director Michelle Cobb


We provided 22 workshops on stewardship, generosity and faith-based financial planning.


These workshops involved 419 clergy and 294 laity.


We provided more than $228,000 in grants to clergy. This year we have approved more than $150,000 in grants.


Workshops scheduled for 2011 and 2012Schedule at Rejuvenate.org


Financial Peace University


I paid down my debt until only $200 remained …


… will take us on the road toward financial peace.


… offerings have increased almost 6 percent.


... Lives being transformed, churches becoming places of change and hope.

Our conference chartered two new churches in 2010

Steve Clouse Mark Gough Doug Anderson Sharon Washington Ed Fenstermacher

Start new congregations and revitalize existing

congregations.


The Indiana Conference is focused on the ministry that takes place in the

congregations.


We have 1,187 congregations across the

state.


We have the capacity to transform

our communities by making disciples.



We have 200,620 members.

Our congregations’ average attendance is

117,750 in worship.


4,138 professions of faith and 3,624 baptisms


Statistics are important in the life of the Conference

because they are benchmarks that

represent disciples.


We are on Mission “to make disciples of Jesus Christ for the

transformation of the world.”



INDIANAPOLIS


VALPARAISO

FIRST FOCUS Revitalizing existing congregations


FIRST FOCUSNew worship servicesRelocationsVital mergers



49 lay teams and pastorsShared learning –

leadership development


Journey step 1 in Sept.50 additional churches


2012Journey Small Church

Initiative

SECOND FOCUSNew worship communitiesStand alone plants andSecond site plants


inumc.orginumc.org/churchdevelopment FB – Making disciples, transforming

communitieshttp://churchdevinumc.wordpress.com


Jennifer GallagherDirector of Financial Services

and Conference Treasurer

Our tithing model seems to be catching on

10%


Tithing is a spiritual discipline of setting aside 10% of income dedicated to the work

of God.

Tithing is a spiritual discipline of setting aside 10% of income dedicated to the work

of God.


In 2010, 629 churches gave 100% of their tithe. We received $13.5 million. CF&A anticipates we will

receive $13.7 million in 2012.

In 2010, 629 churches gave 100% of their tithe. We received $13.5 million. CF&A anticipates we will

receive $13.7 million in 2012.


We are committed to paying 100% of our General Church

apportionments.

We are committed to paying 100% of our General Church

apportionments.


We are funding the DS travel from the tithe budget.

We are funding the DS travel from the tithe budget.


We are injecting $200,000 of the 2010 Conference budget surplus back into the 2012

budget.

We are injecting $200,000 of the 2010 Conference budget surplus back into the 2012

budget.


Conference Board of Pensions & Health Benefits

will be subsidizing our retiree insurance subsidy in 2012 by

$500,000.

Conference Board of Pensions & Health Benefits

will be subsidizing our retiree insurance subsidy in 2012 by

$500,000.


We identified three funds held by the Conference that

were earmarked for Pensions and will be paying off the

loan in full in 2011.

We identified three funds held by the Conference that

were earmarked for Pensions and will be paying off the

loan in full in 2011.


Action: Approve the 2012

Annual Conference budget

Action: Approve the 2012

Annual Conference budget


Action: Council on Finance &

Administration Financial Policies recommendation

Action: Council on Finance &

Administration Financial Policies recommendation


CF&A recommends a DS-Director salary

increase in 2012 of .7% or a $575 increase more than 2011.

CF&A recommends a DS-Director salary

increase in 2012 of .7% or a $575 increase more than 2011.

Brent WilliamsDirector of Administrative

Services

Health Screening

Annual ConferenceFree – Friday & Saturday

or atQuest Diagnostic

Now to July 31

Health Quotient

Online atGeneral Board of Pension

and Health Benefitsgbophb.org

Click on Health & Welfare.Aug. 1 to Sept. 30

175 Ministry Clusters


• Food ministries• Food pantries• Vacation Bible School• Holiday worship• Homeless ministries• Youth retreats


Our goal is to be a vital presence in each community to make disciples and to transform the community.


ANDERSON120 people from 9 UMCs

April 30 Community Day of Outreach


LOGICS CLUSTER

We are functioning for the first time with a Leadership Table

Bishop Mike Coyner







Rev. Brian Durand



Dr. Frank Beard



Rev. Judi Purvis



Dr. Jim Bushfield


We have a new Indiana Conference Center


301 Pennsylvania ParkwaySuite 300, Indianapolis near

Interstate Highway 465


Our other address


Areas of Service include:Financial Services,

Communication, Connectional Ministries,

Administrative Services andThe Bishop’s Office


Number of employees = 29Number of deployed staff = 7


Number of employees = 29Number of deployed staff = 7

District Centers staff = 38 both full and part-time


We have had no attrition.

We have a 10-districtmodel statewide




Here’s what’s working…Here’s what needs

fine tuning…We have added staff to meet

the needs of our work together.


QUESTIONSHow are district budgets

determined?Where does conference

budget and district budgets begin and end?

LOOKING FORWARD

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LOOKING FORWARD

LOOKING FORWARD






LOOKING FORWARD

2012 Indiana Annual Conference

SessionIndiana ConventionCenter in Downtown

IndianapolisJune 7-9



humbly with God.


humbly with God.


humbly with God.


humbly with God.

Indiana Annual Conference Ball State

University June 8-11 See you in Muncie!

Indiana Annual Conference Ball State

University June 8-11 See you in Muncie!

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