Lay Leadership
The Church Council
Staff Parish Relations Committee
This committee’s job is to relate to the staff, appointed leadership as well as employed lay leadership, and also to relate to the parish or congregation. The SPRC works as a team within the congregation to interpret the church’s mission and vision with several individuals and groups including the ministers and all ordained leaders appointed by the bishop, the lay staff, the congregation, the local community, the district superintendent, the United Methodist Connectional Church.
Stewardship Committee
Board of Trustees
This committee consists of nine members who serve three-year terms; three members are selected each year based on the recommendations of the Committee on Lay Leadership. Regular meetings are bi-monthly. The Board supervises and maintains all property belonging to the congregation to facilitate the effectiveness of the ministries of Grace UMC.
Finance Committee
The job of this committee is to identify, perfect, and manage the finance system for the congregation. The finance system is the processes of raising, managing, and dispersing the finances so that the mission and vision of the congregation can be achieved.
Lay Members to Annual Conference
This committee is called to connect the visions and plans of our congregations and our annual conference.
Children’s Council
The mission of this council is to develop and implement programs to help children grow in their relationship to Jesus Christ. The primary task is to help children on their journey as disciples of Jesus Christ.
Education Committee
Missions Committee
This committee supports missions enthusiastically with their prayers, their concern, their time and their service and inspires an awareness of and educates the congregation about the missions outreach in our church. This great fellowship of mission leaders is a vital link in the chain of God’s mission, which extends around the world from the distant past into the future.
Committee on Lay Leadership
This committee is charged with providing a suggested slate of church officers for adoption at the annual Charge Conference in the fall. The committee comprises three yearly rotating classes with three persons in each class. In addition to the annual Charge Conference report, the committee may provide other nominations when requested.
Family Center/ Sports
This council plans and coordinates recreational and fellowship activities for the church.
Youth Council
The job of the this council is to promote the development of a comprehensive approach to youth ministry in the church. This council seeks resources for understanding and direction in it’s ministries with youth.
Worship Committee
This committee works to seek out the mission of the church by offering settings for vital worship in which people experience the presence of God and grow in the knowledge of God.
Witness/Evangelism Committee
Bereavement Committee
- Ensure meals are offered when there is a death of a Grace UMC member.
- Educate the congregation on the topics of grief, led by experts from Grace.
- Ensure periodic communication (cards, letters, etc.) to grieving Grace members.
Provide periodic grief support group seminars for those who have lost a loved one through death, GriefShare (www.griefshare.org), for Grace and the community.