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Church Council Member Synod Visit Report EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN AMERICA CHURCH COUNCIL April 4-6, 2014 Exhibit List Page 1 Exhibit List EXHIBIT A Reports of Leaders Part 1: Report of the Presiding Bishop Part 2: Report of the Vice President Part 3: Report of the Secretary Part 4: Report of the Treasurer (including IT and MS) Part 5: Report of the Executive for Administration (see Exhibit K, Part 4 for HR and RE) Part 6: Report of the Conference of Bishops EXHIBIT B Synodical and CWA Actions Part 1: Synodical Resolutions for Referral to the Church Council Part 1a: Synodical Resolutions for Referral to the Church Council - NONE Part 1b: Proposed Responses: Synodical Resolutions Previously Referred to Churchwide Units Part 2: Churchwide Assembly Actions Part 2a: Churchwide Assembly Actions for Referral to Churchwide Units - NONE Part 2b: Churchwide Assembly Actions: Responses from Units to Church Council EXHIBIT C Nominations EXHIBIT D En Bloc Items Part 1: Board Development Committee Part 2: Budget and Finance Committee Part 3: Executive Committee Part 4: Legal and Constitutional Review Committee Part 5: Planning and Evaluation Committee Part 6: Program and Services Committee Part 7: Other Items EXHIBIT E Board Development Committee Part 1: Café Conversation Items Part 2: John Scherer Materials EXHIBIT F Budget and Finance Committee Parts 1-17: Financial Statements EXHIBIT G Executive Committee Part 1: Theological Education Advisory Council Report EXHIBIT H Legal and Constitutional Review Committee Part 1: Luther Seminary Bylaws EXHIBIT I Planning and Evaluation Committee Part 1: LIFT II Report EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN AMERICA CHURCH COUNCIL April 4-6, 2014 Exhibit List Page 2 EXHIBIT J Program and Services Committee Part 1: GM Personnel Policies Part 2: Criminal Justice Social Criteria Screen Part 3: Word and Service Letter to Rostered Leaders Part 4a: Youth and Young Adult Ministries Part 4b: Disabilities Ministries Part 5: Campaign for the ELCA Report EXHIBIT K Report of Churchwide Ministries Part 1 Global Mission Unit Report Part 2 Congregational and Synodical Mission Unit Report Part 3 Mission Advancement Unit Report Part 4 Office of the Bishop Areas Report: Ecumenical and Inter-Religious Relations, Human Resources, Research and Evaluation, Synodical Relations and Theological Discernment EXHIBIT L Church Council Items Part 1: Synod visits by Church Council members EXHIBIT M Congregational and Synodical Mission EXHIBIT N Global Mission EXHIBIT O Mission Advancement EXHIBIT P Separately Incorporated Ministries Part 1a: Augsburg Fortress Unit Summary Part 1b: Augsburg Fortress Summary of Digest of Board Actions Part 2a: Portico Benefit Services Unit Summary Part 2b: Portico Benefit Services Summary of Digest Board Actions Part 3a: Lutheran Men in Mission Unit Summary Part 4a: Mission Investment Fund Unit Summary Part 5a: Women of the ELCA Unit Summary EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN AMERICA CHURCH COUNCIL April 4-6, 2014 Exhibit A, Part 1 Page 1 Report of the Presiding Bishop Thank you, Mr. Vice President. We’re trying to figure out and your input on this will be important for us here in the Churchwide Organization, what kind of reporting is reporting. I’m going to try to organize my report around something I think that might be helpful. As you know, we’ve worked with a consultant, Lyla Rogan, as we developed the operational plan for this triennium and for the annual goals. One thing we learned is that our written reports basically tell you what we’ve been doing and we don’t know if that is effective reporting or if you want us to say how we are moving against our own goals or the goals we’ve established in the operational plan. It would be helpful if you could talk with us as we make our reports and reflect on what would be most useful. Having said that, here it goes. I like to organize my remarks first of all by talking about the four emphases that I have been sharing. People have been wondering if I have a vision. That’s been the constant question. And I think these four emphases contain that vision and they’re beginning to get traction. Before I could even list them at the Congregational and Synodical Mission unit all-staff meeting, the new Director for Evangelical Mission from the Florida-Bahamas Synod said, “We’re church. We’re Lutheran. We’re church together. We’re church for the sake of the world.” I think we’re starting to get that, and I will continue to unpack what those emphases mean. When I talk about being church, I talk about how we are really clear on how we are formed, informed, motivated and sent out into the world. My understanding is that worship is (and I know people hate this word now) actually a missional activity as well as a devotional one. Worship needs to be the center of our life together and at the center of our worship needs to be the crucified and risen Christ. We do wonderful, wonderful things as the ELCA and I don’t want us to stop for a minute. You’ll hear about those wonderful things over the course of this weekend. And you’re doing them in your own congregations, your own agencies and your own synods. This is happening. But we need to be able to be clear and also to say this out loud, “How are we different? How are we differently motivated from morally upright, compassionate, justice-seeking atheists?” If our folks can’t understand that, then we’ve got some work to do. Also as you can see here, in the front of this room, we have the Word and Sacrament sort of highlighted. It’s a candle, baptismal bowl and Bible. We’re trying to see ourselves as a community of communal spiritual discernment. You’ll be hearing more about that from Bishop Crist, Pastor Kunz and Bill Horne. We all need to be intentional about regular spiritual disciplines or practices, which we may in fact be doing, but we don’t tell each other or we’re not intentional about this. We should be about prayer and silence and solitude and Scripture study (not for the sake of sermons, all of you clergy types). Separate from that is regular corporate worship, giving, hospitality, service. All of that is part of who we are. I’m trying to make how we’re being a church an emphasis. I’m proud that we’re a public church and I’m proud of the work that former Presiding Bishop Hanson did to move us there. Now we need to also emphasize the church, as well as the public church. Goal one works well with that in the Operational Plan. (Goal One: Congregations are growing, vibrant in their worship life and diverse, and worshippers increase their engagement in and support for God’s Mission, locally and globally.) I know also that Scott Weidler and the late Peter Perella were working on a Worship Jubilee, which will be held in July of 2015. Some of us bishops when we’ve traveled around to congregations in our synods find that worship ought to be transcendent and in some cases, it’s not transcendent. Is that delicately put? (Laughter) How can we equip and help our people see that that’s who we are and that moment as a community together, intentionally and in the presence of God, giving praise and glory to God, and then receiving the forgiveness and grace is an important thing? EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN AMERICA CHURCH COUNCIL April 4-6, 2014 Exhibit A, Part 1 Page 2 We should borrow every best practice that we can from secular agencies where they do a lot of things a heck of a lot better than we do. Hence, we finally for the last two cycles have adopted an operational plan. But some of the things that we do, we don’t need to move to strategic planning right away. In fact, what we should do is engage in this community of communal spiritual discernment so that other voices can be heard who don’t process as quickly. We can listen to the Holy Spirit and then be guided that way so we can go to strategic plans. Pr. Amy Reumann, ELCA state public policy director in Pennsylvania, was talking about this this past week in Washington, D.C. and she said, “For coming to decisions, this is pure gold.” So it’s already getting traction across the church. We need to be Lutheran. If we’re not really clear about who we are, how can we engage in an authentic, meaningful relationship with somebody else? All of us, and I’ll speak for our tradition, and this is not to take away from any of our full-communion partner traditions because we need to hear clearly from you, who you are. But if we’re not aware who we are, we’re missing something. The Lutheran voice has a distinctive timbre that can add to the conversation, not only within our organization, but ecumenically, in interfaith discussions and in our secular discussions, and therefore in the public square. To that end, the churchwide organization will embark on a study of the Small Catechism. Pr. Marcus Kunz, with a focus group, is trying to work toward a way to help folks, current employees and new employees, to understand the Lutheran language, what it talks about. The way we’re going to do that is through a study of the Small Catechism. The work of the Theological Education Advisory Council (TEAC) will also help us to have an authentic and unapologetic Lutheran voice for our work as we’re moving toward the 500th anniversary/observance of the Reformation .
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