8:15 – 8:45am
prayer and meditation, Dana
10:15am
break
11:45am
lunch at bricktown (Amanda’s telling us where to go)
1:45 – 3:00pm
Danny’s thing (JF follow up, q&r)
3:00pm
break
4:30pm
dinner at bricktown (Amanda’s telling us where to go)
7:00 – 8:00pm
JF, Dana, and Tori’s sending gathering thing
8:30pm
AirnBnB rager
1604 Northwest 40th Street
Oklahoma City, OK, 73118
Go home. Or worship at 8th St Church. Oh, and Tom will be at OCK first church and JF will be with Jon Mays and The Good OKC.
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New name (trademark pending), new website, new logo
New credentialing team – Stephen, Kyle, Jill, Amanda, Tracey
New language around licensing, ordination, credentialing
New steps added to credentialing process, including psych evaluation that (NEO: measuring Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, Neuroticism)
Updated handbook
15 new donors
New board member – Amanda Oster
40 new credentialed and endorsed leaders, chaplains, sp directors, profs, and pastors
Sponsored our first conferences – ORTLINE and Ember Gathering, (will be sponsoring Post-Evangelical Collective conference in April)
New un-executive executive director – Jonathan Foster
New podcast with Jonathan and Jill – and Ruthie Santiago music/production
New IG and FB pages (though it’d be great to find someone t help manage these!)
Starting June 1, new pension and benefits options go into effect for Curian-credentialed leaders. We’re grateful for our partnership with the Disciples of Christ (DOC), which makes savings and retirement planning available through our network. And if a pastor joins Curian without their church following, church employees can still participate — as long as the church signs a participation agreement with the Common Bonds and Convictions addendum developed jointly by the Curian and DOC boards.
We’re also turning some early ideas over in our minds about a Curian Commons — a way to welcome lay people from across the country who don’t have a local church that reflects Curian values. We say early ideas deliberately: this would require someone willing to carry it forward, and we want to move carefully rather than fast.
We have some new educational ideas percolating with Dr. Shaleen