To be completed by the SPRC Staff-Parish Relations Committee

(or equivalent) & Pastor

LOCAL CHURCH PROFILE ANNUAL INFORMATION

See the 2016 Book of Discipline, ¶333, ¶425-429.

LCPA 2020 Due 2 weeks prior to SPR consultation

CHURCH TOWN or CITY

CHARGE* DISTRICT: DATE of S/PPR MTG Please complete this form electronically. Additional space provided at the end for further comment.

You may sign a copy of this form at the time of your consultation with your DS. The questions on this form are designed to help you pause, reflect, and discuss how well your church is carrying out its mission. Your DS uses your answers to guide conversation at the annual consultation, consider what kind of resources you might need, and discern who your next pastor should be (if appropriate). * Charge: The church or churches to which a pastor is appointed. **Note for Questions 2, 4 & 5: you might need to ask your church council or equivalent what goals they have set or consult with your staff regarding program plans. If you don’t have plans, write that down and then have some honest discussion about why not.

1. What are you currently doing to help new people meet Christ?

2. What new ideas are you planning** to help others meet Christ?*

3. What are you currently doing to help the people grow in Christ-like living?

4. What new ideas are you planning** to help the people grow in Christ-like living?*

5. What is God calling your church to do** to bless your community next year?*

6. What changes are happening that affect how you live out the mission? This might include the deaths of significantgivers, a new housing development, the opening or closing of an industry, a new ministry you have or are about to launch, etc.

LCPA: Rev. 8/20

7. Describe how your worship service(s) help people experience God’s presence.(use weekly average attendance)Time (AM/PM) Worship Style Avg. Attendance Note On-Line Worship (and other details)

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5.)

8. Membership (as of 6-30-20): Average age of members:

These numbers can fluctuate throughout the year. We ask for them here as a different measure of how well your church is livingout its mission. Refer to the attached worship attendance instructions on how to count during social distancing guidelines.Additional Comments:

9. Describe Church Theology: (Progressive) 1 2 3 4

Which is more descriptive?

5 (Conservative)

10. What 3 skills or leadership qualities (in addition to ‘Good Preaching’) needed in your pastoral leader?1.) Good preaching which transforms people’s hearts through the power of the Holy Spirit, enables them to make connections

between faith and everyday life, and makes the Bible interesting, so that they grow in their love and imitation of Christ.

11. How does your congregation support and encourage your pastor (and their family)?(Recognized day off; regular SPRC meetings; lay ministries; parsonage committee; key staff; continuing ed.)

12. Finances: Please select the best answer for the following statementshas decreased is about the same. Our giving compared to this time last year… has increased

Our spending compared to this time last year... has increased

How is the church planning for the financial sustainability of it ministry?

% District Figures %% of Shared Ministry (Apportionments) Paid as of 6-30-20: Conference Figures

We differ in perspective

Day

We tend to be similar in perspective

has decreased is about the same.

LCPA: Rev. 8/20

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3.)

4.)

LCPA: Rev. 8/20

13. Staff & Pastor 2021 Compensation (These may be proposed figures for now. Please send budgeted 2021 compensation at earliest date available, but no later than December 1st.)

IMPORTANT: Multi-point Charges: List both your local church info and the charge total as indicated.

Name all churches in the charge here: Single church appointments: use Local Church column only.

14. The LCPL (Local Church Profile Long-term) provides vital information to the cabinet about your church andsurrounding community. Recognizing that such information rarely changes dramatically from year to year, we askyou to update it every 3 years. Is your LCPL still reflective of your church and community? YES, we’ll sign & date it NO, we needed to update it and are submitting a new one

15. Appointment consultation feedback for Bishop/Cabinet: We are at a good place to change leadership.

Pastor

Date

Out of respect to renew our covenant to God and each other as United Methodists, we again offer ourselves to the greater good of Christ. We resolve, at this season, to affirm that the Bishop and Cabinet will discern how pastors are deployed for the best possible missional configuration in the East Ohio Conference, of which we are a part. It is our hope to serve this movement to help support our pastor to lead in equipping the laity reach out and “to make and mature disciples for the transformation of the world”, in this one United Methodist Church with many mission outposts.

SPRC Chair

Church

Further comments (please provide the reference to the question)

2021

Has

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fits Pastor Name:

If 2021 info is unavailable, send Q#13 info ASAP Local Church Name Charge TOTAL Job Title HRS/week Salary* Pastor 2021 Cash Salary:

Assoc Pastor Parsonage (25% value): Secretary 1 Housing Allowance (if any)

(this is not housing exclusion for taxes) Secretary 2 Custodian TOTAL COMPENSATION VALUE $

Choir or Worship Dir. Health: $9,228 Single / $18,144 FT; Flat Rate Organist Pension:

Youth Dir. Mileage: Christian Ed Continuing Ed: Other Annual Conf:

Other: (i.e. cell)

TOTAL REIMBURSABLES $ Total Staff Comp (Annual Budget ) $

We have more of God’s work to do together.Explanation/Rationale:

Other

Other

TOTAL PASTOR PKG (Cost to Budget) $

*employees: if paid hourly, please enter wages as a total annual income; if Volunteers, type VOL in HRS columnmark the benefit box if staff receive any of following: KEY: H for Health; P for Pension; B for Both

Anticipated Changes from 2020 Budget for staff or pastor(i.e. pastoral change; 2% increase; and/or reduction in staff)

You may use a digital signature or sign a copy at the time of your consultation with your DS.

EAST OHIO CONFERENCE AVERAGE WORSHIP ATTENDANCE REPORTING

EXPLANATION AND GUIDELINES

As we think about how congregations are to report average worship attendance in this day and age when individuals do not have to be physically present in a congregation to take part in a worship service, let’s begin by taking a moment to explore what we mean by worship. In discussing this matter the Florida Annual Conference concluded, “The well-spring of a congregation's life together is their worship. Christ calls us out of the world to gather around Him as passionate worshipers. We gather with attitudes of trust and gratitude, of openness and obedience. We gather to be formed as God's people through praise, prayer, Word and Sacrament. While it is impossible to measure a worshiper's openness to the Holy Spirit, we can assume that those encountering the Living Water tend to come back.” Therefore, the best measurement for Passionate worship is: The average number of people in attendance at regularly scheduled worship service(s).

In The East Ohio Conference, we affirm the following regarding worship:

● Worship is scheduled for twelve months of the year and the attendance at each service is included inthe average worship attendance figure.

● Worship includes the regular celebration of the sacraments. Our hope is that communion would becelebrated at least 4 times a year.

● Regularly scheduled worship services include any service held on a consistent basis as an opportunityfor worship. In many congregations this will be the Sunday morning service(s).

● Congregations might also offer a Sunday evening service, a youth worship service, a Saturday eveningor mid-week service. These are examples of other worship opportunities that should be included inaverage worship attendance.

● If a nursing home or care facility service meets the above definition for worship i.e. regularlyscheduled throughout the year, and the celebration of sacraments, it should be included in theaverage worship attendance.

● Children who participate in all or part of any such service may be included in the count. This wouldinclude children who participate in a children's church service especially designed for them. This wouldnot include infants in the nursery who do not attend a worship service.

What is not included in average worship attendance:

● Based on the instructions found for line 7 of the End of the Year Report, average worship attendancedoes not include attendance at irregularly held worship services, such as a Holy Thursday, ChristmasEve Service, weddings or funerals.

● The End of the Year Report also asks congregations to keep track of and report the number of personswho attend worship online (7a). This means reporting the “average number of unique viewers whoaccess worship online. This includes those live streaming your worship service and views/downloads ofrecorded worship services (audio or video), sermons, and/or podcasts.” This number does not include“generic hits/visits to your website” or people who receive and read a sermon after receiving it bysnailmail.

● Do not include weekends when worship services are cancelled in your average worship attendance.For example, if worship services have to be cancelled on a Sunday morning during the winter becauseof the weather, you would not include the attendance for those worship services when you calculatethe average worship attendance at the end of the year.

❖ We suggest churches track the average worship attendance for each worship service that meets the above

definition as a way to better understand how they are engaging people through worship.