Please note, this is info for 2011. Patti’s mistake.

Happy New Year! Our District Clergy Meeting will be held on January 10^th at Epworth UMC, 1540 Camp Road, Charleston, SC.

At the District meeting on January 10^th, Brad Davis, a member from Bethany, Summerville, will lead us in looking at a program called MBS – Management By Scripture. It is a personality styles program similar to DISC or Meyers/Briggs, but does not require a Masters Degree in psychology to understand. It is my hope that this will be a fun way to launch the New Year! The following instructions were sent by Mr. Davis:

Please take the time to take the MBS survey before January 7^th with the instructions below. The entire process should not take more than 5 minutes.

Go to www.MBSFamily.com

On the top of the webpage is a link to “Receive your Free Temperament Profile Report”. Click on that to go to the survey.

When the survey pops up, enter your name; Church; position and Email address. In the space for the password enter UMC2011 (this will allow you to take the survey for free). If you have taken the MBS survey previously, please let Brad Davis brad.davis@hendrickauto.com know so he can get your survey transferred to the District site.

Complete the survey, noting that there are different instructions for the first half and second half of the survey. This is designed to be a quick response word association. If you are studying or fretting over your responses, you will not get a quality assessment. MBS is not a job evaluation tool and your responses will not get you shipped out to a six church circuit assignment in the Pee Dee Region. Please relax and we’ll have fun with this.

You will get a copy of your survey emailed to you and during the training we’ll show you how to access the tool and use it for your church. If you have any questions or problems with the survey prior to the class, feel free to contact the instructor Brad Davis at brad.davis@hendrickatuo.com or 402-6551.

PLEASE SUBMIT TO ME THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION VIA EMAIL pjparrish@umcsc.org: If you have not submitted them prior to the 10^th, please bring them in written form to the meeting.

2011 Membership

2011Average Worship Attendance

2011 Number of Professions of Faith

2011 Number of Small Groups (including number of people involved)

2011 Number of People in Mission

2011 Amount of Money spent on Missions (including apportionments)

Be sure to put the name of your congregation on the information submitted. If you do not have all of this information collected, please submit your best “guesstimate”. The Bishop is anxious to get a sense of the baseline from which we will set our Vital Congregation Numerical Goals as a conference. Don’t forget that the Strategic Plan is in place to help you in the process of goal setting and that while we want to set all types of goals, we want to be able set measureable (numerical) goals as well.

Blessings for the New Year,

Patti