ONE  - Atlanta Faith-Based Alliance (AFBA)

 

 AFBA Committees

 

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Steering Committee (SC)  Meeting       [Copy this page to "GLBT" wiki site... & update it with current SC members]

 

(Please fill in the following; add notes, etc.)

 

 

[Following are quotes from e-mail/messages from you AFBA folks that I've gathered in one place...]

 

 

 What is essential is that as we move forward; we do so under one united voice.  (Louis Hinton)   Atlanta Faith Based Alliance - Message from Louis Re: SC Meeting Mar  (Message #18)

 

I look forward to working with the new Steering Committee as we become a viable and purposeful group with hope, direction and answers for our community.  Now is the time (during an election year) to make our voices heard.  Now is the time that we step up to the plate as champions and defenders and the voice of a people without voice, hope and direction.

 

/Louis Hinton  (from above e-mail message #18)

 

Our goal (SC) will be to set the stage for a wholly

inclusive and united force working together to heal our community and

to give a voice to those who can't speak for themselves.   March 15th Steering Committee Meeting  (Message #25)

 

 General concerns about the AFBA general meetings:   Re: April AFBA meeting date/time  (Message #32)

I do want to express my concern that we are mindful, particularly when we convene a general meeting, that everyone is able to participate. Meeting at a restaurant where one is expected to purchase a meal, no matter how inexpensive, may prevent people from participating who may otherwise have participated. How meals are provided is one of those things that I'm sure we will eventually work out as a steering committee, but in the meantime, I want to be sure people don't feel unable to participate for any reason.

 

Finally, when the announcement goes out, as we discussed in our last meeting, people should be encouraged to answer the questions attached to the agenda and email them back or give them to some designated person, even if they can not attend the meeting so that we have the broadest input possible.

 

 Conferance Calls:  Re: Mega church dialogue work  (Message #34)

seems that nobody is taking charge to get that established.  Needs to be someone who has access to a mutli-conference call phone system.  We might need to establish "lead" persons in each area again so we know who the meeting/conf call coordinator is.

 

Anyone out there willing to pull us together for the CC?

 

 I have a conference call number and access code we can use if we have a date and time for the meeting. The call in number is not toll free, but we can talk for up to 6 hours.   Re: Mega church dialogue work   (Message #35)

 

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Maressa, would you be willing to create the whole group (listserve) email announcing this meeting? [April 12, 2008]  setting time for AFBA steering committee call  (Message #41)

 

 

I know that studies show that email announcements might not be the best way to get those folks to the meeting...are others willing to divide up the names/phone #s for folks who attended in the past and give each a personal call asking them to come back and help give input that will help decide our vision and mission?  I will agree to do that if others will....it's a much better bet that someone will come if they are called...and since it's been a while since the last general community meeting, it may be important to re-invigorate former attendees.

 

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 The steering committee consists of the following members:  Pastor Paul Turner,   Rev. Tessie Mandeville,   Rev. Maressa Pendermon,   Sandra Larson,   Edonna Koon,   Jai Ashantii,   Lorraine Fontana,   Pastor Troy Sanders,   Minister Adrian Bourie,   Minister Bryan Edney,    Dr. Dionne Bates,   Rev. Dr. Kathi Martin (unconfirmed) and   Minister Louis Hinton and at-large   Bishop Yvette Flunder,   Rev. Elder Jim Mitulski.  

 

 

Date     Time   Place     Directions to Place

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Names of SC Members

(1) Filling In Member Name. Press "Edit page", Highlight (double-click left mouse button) NamePlace & Type Real Name, Press "SAVE". (2) Making a New Page for that Member. Highlight Name, type "Ctrl-C" to copy, press "New page", type "Ctrl-V" to paste in "Name your new page" box. Press "Create new page". Now copy & paste the "AFBA Committees" link at top of new page, press "Return" key; then press "Insert Horizontal Line" icon in menu, press "Return" key. Press "SAVE" (3) Making a Link to page just made. Press "AFBA Committees" Link on the page just created to get back to the "AFBA Committees" wiki page. Press "F5" key to Refresh wiki page (which then shows the editing results from your last Save). Press "Edit page", Hightlight Name, Press "Link" in menu. Fill in pop-up window: in "Link Type" box select "WikiPage" from drop-down list; in "Link to wiki page" box select the Name Of The Page you just made from the drop-down list of pages in this wiki site. Make sure the "Link text" box has the correct Name in it. Press "OK". Press "SAVE". Now you have linked the two pages together so you can go back and forth between the two.  Press "F5". (4) Do the above 3 steps for each New Name added to list below. Press "F5" key. Now you're done! Kind of fun isn't it? (Many times you have to try more then once for everything to work properly. If no Save on 1st try, press "Back" button, then Press "SAVE" again.)

Member                        Present                Position/Duties                                                  Yes or No SampleSam    SampleBeth   NamePlace111c   NamePlace222   NamePlace333   NamePlace444   NamePlace555   NamePlace666   NamePlace777 Visitor/Guest   NamePlace888   NamePlace999

   

 

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Notes  

 

 

 

 

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Concerns

 

 

 

Questions?

 

 

 

To Do List   

 

To all AFBA committee members, in this case, the Steering Committee (SC):

 

1) Make list of potential meeting places, contact person and phone #.  [put on a wiki page]

2) Committee meetings could meet at someone's home, or eating place such as Starbucks, but alternate between places. [

3) Bring your laptops and use them at each meeting.

4) Try to have free Internet access at each meeting so can be online to access the wiki site and other websites. [at a business place this is simple; at a home much more complicated unless you have a router of some kind for multiple hook-ups, maybe only 1 or 2 at most can be online at a home.]

5) Bookmark websites of interest, and put them in a list for future reference. [put on a wiki page]

6) Bring notepaper and pens for note taking. [All take your own personal notes, then put them on a wiki page for all to view, edit, etc.]

7) Tape record, video tape  meetings. (the important discussion parts, presentations, etc.)

8) Also at each meeting have someone assigned to take official good notes -written on paper, or/AND typed on computer, AND copied & pasted into a wiki site page for all to see online at each meeting in real time.

 

 

 

Things to do Before Meeting

 

1) Utilize the wiki site

 

Things to do During Meeting

 

 1) utilize the wiki site

 

Things to do After Meeting

 

 1) Utilize the wiki site