July Newsletter
Hello Church Family,
It was nice getting back into my normal rhythm of member visitation in June after spending most of May working on Subsplash. I’m thankful that the website has been working well and online giving is running without any problems. The new hymnals turned out well, and we have already transitioned to using them in our worship planning. I think they will serve us well in the coming years. My pastoral ministry cohort has been meeting twice a month instead of every week due to the leader’s speaking schedule during the summer months. My meetings with Bill Berkheiser have also been infrequent due to his other commitments, but both training opportunities have remained beneficial.
My other focus for the month of June was on starting to prepare our children’s ministry for future growth. UBC now has a subscription to an organization named MinistrySafe, which provides online training for volunteers and parents, facilitates background checks, and offers lots of other useful resources. I have completed a rough draft of a new child protection policy, and I will be meeting with the deacons and board of education to read through the draft and revise the policy language. Once it has been revised, we will present it to the congregation for a vote before it is officially implemented.
Lastly, the church will be moving our Sunday morning livestreams from streaming through Facebook to streaming directly to our new website. Subsplash has the capability to post the stream on Facebook and YouTube, but we are still working on getting those accounts connected to the website. So for now, if you want to watch the stream, please go to ubctroy.com and you can watch the livestream from the home page. Please let us know if you experience any problems with the livestream, as we will be troubleshooting it and will appreciate if you share any bugs that you notice with us.
I hope you all are having a great summer. Celeste and I will be going on our first cruise from July 10-16, and we likely won’t have cellular connection while we are on the ocean. If you need anything while we are gone, please contact the deacons! We look forward to being with you again on July 20th.
Pastor Nathan
It was nice getting back into my normal rhythm of member visitation in June after spending most of May working on Subsplash. I’m thankful that the website has been working well and online giving is running without any problems. The new hymnals turned out well, and we have already transitioned to using them in our worship planning. I think they will serve us well in the coming years. My pastoral ministry cohort has been meeting twice a month instead of every week due to the leader’s speaking schedule during the summer months. My meetings with Bill Berkheiser have also been infrequent due to his other commitments, but both training opportunities have remained beneficial.
My other focus for the month of June was on starting to prepare our children’s ministry for future growth. UBC now has a subscription to an organization named MinistrySafe, which provides online training for volunteers and parents, facilitates background checks, and offers lots of other useful resources. I have completed a rough draft of a new child protection policy, and I will be meeting with the deacons and board of education to read through the draft and revise the policy language. Once it has been revised, we will present it to the congregation for a vote before it is officially implemented.
Lastly, the church will be moving our Sunday morning livestreams from streaming through Facebook to streaming directly to our new website. Subsplash has the capability to post the stream on Facebook and YouTube, but we are still working on getting those accounts connected to the website. So for now, if you want to watch the stream, please go to ubctroy.com and you can watch the livestream from the home page. Please let us know if you experience any problems with the livestream, as we will be troubleshooting it and will appreciate if you share any bugs that you notice with us.
I hope you all are having a great summer. Celeste and I will be going on our first cruise from July 10-16, and we likely won’t have cellular connection while we are on the ocean. If you need anything while we are gone, please contact the deacons! We look forward to being with you again on July 20th.
Pastor Nathan
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