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Members of the new Indiana Conference Transition Team include (from left to right): David V.W. Owen, Jim Coy, Al Brothers, Ashley Moreland, Kaye Patton, Bert Kite, Ike Williams, Kayc Mykrantz, Ida Easley, Cindy Reynolds, Herb Buwalda and Bishop Mike Coyner. |
The newly appointed 14-member Indiana Conference Transition Team, selected by Bishop Mike Coyner, met for the first time, July 10, at the Area Office in Indianapolis. The morning session of the meeting combined members of both the previous Imagine Indiana Design Team that brought the proposal to unite the North Indiana and South Indiana Conferences into a new Indiana Conference. Members of the former team reflected with the new team members their dreams for the new conference and key elements of the plan. The Design Team reiterated the importance of congregations working together on the common goal of “making disciples of Jesus Christ for the transformation of the world” with horizontal accountability rather than the tradition top-down process. They also said to listen to people, especially staff members of both conference offices and the area office. As the conference offices begin to close down to form a new office, they said much grieving will occur. The same is true of long-time members of both conferences who have met and done conference business as usual both at Purdue and Indiana University sites for the past 40 to 60 years. A time of remembering the two former conferences will be incorporated into a worship service of the Special Session of the two current conference to be held Saturday, Oct. 4 at the Indiana State Fairgrounds in Indianapolis. The Transition Team will work through the first session of the new Indiana Conference scheduled to meet June 24-28, 2009 at Ball State University in Muncie.
The Rev. Cindy Reynolds, Superintendent of the Warsaw District was elected
chair by the new Transition Team. Coyner outlined the assignment of the
Transition Team who will be responsible for nominating members to the new
Conference Council on Finance and Administration, Conference Trustees and naming
people to the nominations, human resources, rules and sessions committees.