1. Make it So: 2020!
Welcome!
Together we really have grown those seeds of a vision into a shared vision for MDUUC – and a PLAN to make it so.

2. Last fall, at a leadership workshop I used this slide the day we check in with each other, sync, receive some coaching, and work on growing our own skills – transforming ourselves.
At the PaceSetters Reception and in general feedback I’ve received I hear a lot about how the best of us is NOT changing – that we always have worked for racial justice, provided caring support for each other … which is true and the very good news.
Change Means … Change

3. MDUUC Mission
Mt. Diablo Unitarian Universalist Church is a welcoming religious community. We bring to life our Unitarian Universalist values as we:
seek truth and work for justice;
nurture compassion and courage;
reach out to each other and to our larger community of faith;
bridge the divisions that wound the human family;
transform ourselves and our world.
We’ve always been about seeking truth and working for justice. Whose JOB is it to ‘nurture compassion and courage?’ Everybody’s, right?
We’ve always been guided by the values behind this mission. We agree on those values.

4. Change Means … Change Transitioning to Collaborative Governance
And as we’ve grown to a Resource-size level church – more than 350 participating weekly – we are changing though. We’re becoming – some with intense, earnest focus, are working to be better people, to rise up and even more vigilantly work for justice, eradicate racism .. Call on our better angels. And we’re well on the road – with our council structure and expanded ministry as a starting point to a more collaborative, communicative governance model appropriate to our size. Recruiting, developing council and committee leaders, chairs and conveners. Empowering them. enabling the board to do more strategic governance – it’s all interwoven.
Change Means … Change Transitioning to Collaborative Governance

5. We have 3 big entities that govern our church: the congregation – the board of trustees it elects, and the ministry team we call and hire – 3 big entities that together, collaboratively serve the mission of the church. As you know I’m fond of saying, the board doesn’t report to the congregation. We work WITH the congregation and the ministerial team in service of the MISSION of the church.

6. Board of Trustees (and councils, committees) Congregation - Members
3 ENTITIES:
Ministerial Team
Board of Trustees (and councils, committees)
Congregation - Members
We have 3 big entities that govern our church: the congregation – the board of trustees it elects, and the ministry team we call and hire – 3 big entities that together, collaboratively serve the mission of the church. As you know I’m fond of saying, the board doesn’t report to the congregation. We work WITH the congregation and the ministerial team in service of the MISSION of the church.

7. All Working together – collaborating in service of the mission.

8. Make it So: 2020!
MDUUC is Mission-Driven
With a Shared Vision: 2020
And a Plan to Make it So.
We are a MISSION-Driven church. With a shared vision of ourselves and our community by the year And a plan to make it so. That plan has 6 strategic goals.

9. Make it So: 2020! Board Assessment of 2017-18 YTD
MIS
FOCUS AREA
We have met!
Reviewed MIS Milestones for
Agreed or amended them
Assigned accountabilities
Crafted clear plan
Are making progress on each milestone!
Worship & Spiritual Growth
Living Our Values
Exuberantly Multicultural
Be a Resource for Families
Communications
Create Culture of Stewardship
In Nov., the board walked through where we are on each of the six, with leaders checking off whether … they had MET, reviewed the goals, come to concensus on them, devised a plan an assigned accountabilities and were making progress on each. And over the coursed o the year we’ve had leaders in each area come brief us on progress and request anything needed to get to the 2020 vision as defined.
Walk thru prpogress on each. Worship, comms solidly on point; separate streams of progress; good things happening … not nec make it so goals… Stewardship – innovation, celebration Sunday trial – but year-round culture; Place –foundational building year. SO 3 focus areas
Seeds of a Vision

10. Make it So: 2020! Board Assessment of 2017-18 YTD
MIS
FOCUS AREA
We have met!
Reviewed MIS Milestones for
Agreed or amended them
Assigned accountabilities
Crafted clear plan
Are making progress on each milestone!
Worship & Spiritual Growth
Living Our Values
Exuberantly Multicultural
Be a Resource for Families
Communications
Create Culture of Stewardship
In Nov., the board walked through where we are on each of the six, with leaders checking off whether … they had MET, reviewed the goals, come to concensus on them, devised a plan an assigned accountabilities and were making progress on each. And over the coursed o the year we’ve had leaders in each area come brief us on progress and request anything needed to get to the 2020 vision as defined.
Walk thru prpogress on each. Worship, comms solidly on point; separate streams of progress; good things happening … not nec make it so goals… Stewardship – innovation, celebration Sunday trial – but year-round culture; Place –foundational building year. SO 3 focus areas
Seeds of a Vision

11. 3 Focus Areas Today
Place – What are the physical infrastructure requirements of our Make it So goals?
Families – What has enough value to your family that you would make showing up for it a priority?
Stewardship – How can we increase and sustain member investment of time, treasure and talent in MDUUC?

12. 3 Questions in each Work Group
What do we already do well that we can build upon?
What other ideas excite us (brainstorm)?
What other information, resource or process change do we need to move forward?

13. Next Steps Recap – to Board, Ministry & Lay Leadership
Leadership Transitions over Summer: Council, Committees, Board
Board retreat(s) – June debrief, August set strategic goals
Fall Workshop
Spring Workshop
Regular Meetings - Frequency
Budgets / Priorities
Let’s look at how we make this process more collaborative!

14. A comfort zone is a beautiful place … But nothing ever grows there.

15. Change Means … Change Transforming Ourselves and Our World
And as we’ve grown to a Resource-size level church – more than 350 participating weekly – we are changing though. We’re becoming – some with intense, earnest focus, are working to be better people, to rise up and even more vigilantly work for justice, eradicate racism .. Call on our better angels. And we’re well on the road – with our council structure and expanded ministry as a starting point to a more collaborative, communicative governance model appropriate to our size. Recruiting, developing council and committee leaders, chairs and conveners. Empowering them. enabling the board to do more strategic governance – it’s all interwoven.
Change Means … Change Transforming Ourselves and Our World