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TRANSITION YEAR FAQs

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Updated - 06-02-08

  1. QUESTION: At a Town Hall meeting, I noticed you (Skip Hansen) extended a rather open-ended invitation for lay people in the audience to get involved with aNEWthing process.  What will be the extent of their involvement?  And are all the district’s lay people going to be involved in "evaluating" all the future options?

  2. QUESTION: So what exactly did you offer the rest of us at the Town Hall meetings?

  3. QUESTION: It feels a bit like you are just looking for "yes" men.  Is that true? 

  4. QUESTION: If I’m still interested… how can I get involved

  5. QUESTION: If a lay person chooses not to get involved directly… but wants to know what is going on… is there a timeline by which district lay people will receive information?

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Added - 04-10-08

  1. Much of IBC’s communication uses the word “alliances.”  Doesn’t this imply some kind of merger, partnership, marriage or whatever—in other words somehow adding ourselves to someone else, or adding someone else to us? 

  2. How can those pastors accomplish such a major task in only two days?

  3. Do you see any trends emerging from the first survey… inside and outside the box ideas?

  4. Do you know how much IBC’s camp at Pine Lake is worth?

  5. Why doesn’t the IBC board or staff know its dollar value?

  6. Wouldn’t it be important to know its value?

  7. But still… why not find out today what our property is worth right now?

  8. I’m not sure I’m comfortable with Skip Hansen serving as the Transition Director.  Can he effectively serve as a truly unbiased consultant after having served all these years as the Iowa DEM? 

  9. Is there any unique benefit that IBC gains from having Skip Hansen serve as Transition Director?

  10. If you serve as Transition Director, what will be your guiding philosophy? 

  11. We are the smallest BGC district.  Has BGC established a “standard of viability,” or any minimum requirements for what it takes to create or maintain a district?

  12. Is the (ill) health of the district related to ill-health in our churches?

 

Added - 02-13-08

  1. What’s the actual difference for Skip… between being the "DEM" and being the "Transition Director"?

  2. Why bother to change Skip’s title from DEM to Transition Director?

  3. Why bother to change Skip’s title from DEM to Transition Director?

  4. Wouldn't it be best for us to brainstorm face-to-face rather than through individual surveys?

 

Added - 02-06-08

  1. I’ve heard about something called a NEW thing! What is it?

  2. Is the decision made?  Is it a done deal?  Who actually gets to decide if the IBC moves forward on a NEW thing! next year… as the Board of Overseers (BOO) is recommending?

  3. I’ve heard people suggest IBC is “dead-in-the-water!”  Are we “closing up shop?”

  4. It still feels like a funeral.  Am I wrong? 

  5. You mentioned “marriage.”  Do you mean “merger?”

  6. What do you mean by “menu?”

  7. What happens with all those menu options?

  8. Who will pick the “best choices?”

  9. A year seems too long!   Can’t we just “get on with it?”  Can’t we let the BOO make the decision and move forward!

  10. My church gets a bit nervous when confronted with “change.”  It seems “natural” for some churches to “hold back” until they see which way the “wind is blowing.”  If we hold back, how will that decision impact the IBC?