Overview of Interest Areas, Circles, Committees, Teams, and Tasks
We use the following terms:
Interest Area: a collection of related Committees, Circles, Teams, and Tasks. Each of the seven Interest Areas at UUFSM has a Board Liaison.
Circle: a group of people who gather to pursue a shared interest, learn something, talk, share their thoughts and feelings, or just have fun.
Team: a group of people who work together to accomplish a complicated task or a set of related tasks, usually formed ad hoc. Headed by a Team Leader.
Committee: a standing committee with a specific task. The Nominating and the Endowment Committees are specified in the bylaws
Job or Task: usually done by one or two people, gets its own page of procedure
INTEREST AREAS
- Sunday Mornings Operationss, Hospitality, Greeters, Worship, Music, Choir, Chalice Guild
- Religious Education Admin, Nursery, Sunday School, Teens, Adult RE (Learning Circles and Discussion Circles)
- Fellowship Builders We Care, Membership, Social Events, Mediation, Sharing Circles, Social Circles, Worship Circles
- Social Justice Action Earth Care, Community Outreach, Civil Rights, UUSC Liaison
- Communications Sunday Bulletin, Website, Publicity, Publications, Historian
- Finance & Planning
- - Finance (Sunday Collections, Bookkeeping)
- - Stewardship (Fundraising, Canvass, Grants),
- - Planning (Budget, Land & Building, Endowment Committee, Rainy Day Fund)
- UU Matters Liaisons (UUAC, JPD, GWA, Chalice Lighters, Minister), Document Review, Employee supervision, Nominating Committee
Current Interest Areas and Board Liaisons
