Comments on: MCC Restructure: When does the hard part begin? http://young.anabaptistradicals.org/2008/09/28/mcc-restructure-when-does-the-hard-part-begin/ let's activate something Sat, 11 Feb 2012 12:33:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: ST http://young.anabaptistradicals.org/2008/09/28/mcc-restructure-when-does-the-hard-part-begin/#comment-18801 ST Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:45:43 +0000 http://young.anabaptistradicals.org/?p=558#comment-18801 Thanks for writing Roxy. Tim and I were wondering if we'd have a chance to get something up on this blog about what we've experienced. Luckily, there were only 20 tables, btw...and one place of continuity of the discussion at least would be that one of the main people in your hot-team/rapid prototyping group is someone on the ITF and she was in the same discussion in the Philippines. Since y'all were talking about Human Resources, etc. I think that it was great to see some continuity of that discussion, as it directly relates to appropriately hiring and firing, changing funding levels, tuition reimbursements etc. I led a hot-team/rapid prototyping discussing the church...as in "who are we talking about when we say "the church". we recommended that MCC discontinue the use of word "owner/ownership" in its bylaws and also to not conflate "church" and "institutions" i.e. MC Canada because the church is changing I don't know how we'll be able to handle all of the concerns, but it is comforting that the ITF and Steering Committee are not making a final decision (once-and-for-all) but maybe only for the next 20 years. Most of the hard part begins in October when the ITF meets. And you can suspend your opinions, but please do send us your prayers... Thanks for writing Roxy. Tim and I were wondering if we’d have a chance to get something up on this blog about what we’ve experienced.

Luckily, there were only 20 tables, btw…and one place of continuity of the discussion at least would be that one of the main people in your hot-team/rapid prototyping group is someone on the ITF and she was in the same discussion in the Philippines. Since y’all were talking about Human Resources, etc. I think that it was great to see some continuity of that discussion, as it directly relates to appropriately hiring and firing, changing funding levels, tuition reimbursements etc.

I led a hot-team/rapid prototyping discussing the church…as in “who are we talking about when we say “the church”. we recommended that MCC discontinue the use of word “owner/ownership” in its bylaws and also to not conflate “church” and “institutions” i.e. MC Canada because the church is changing

I don’t know how we’ll be able to handle all of the concerns, but it is comforting that the ITF and Steering Committee are not making a final decision (once-and-for-all) but maybe only for the next 20 years.

Most of the hard part begins in October when the ITF meets.

And you can suspend your opinions, but please do send us your prayers…

]]> By: TimN http://young.anabaptistradicals.org/2008/09/28/mcc-restructure-when-does-the-hard-part-begin/#comment-18777 TimN Sun, 28 Sep 2008 21:23:41 +0000 http://young.anabaptistradicals.org/?p=558#comment-18777 Roxy, thanks for sharing your thoughts on the process. I think you've got a healthy skepticism about the eventual outcome of the process. I suspect your experience working as a staff member of MCC may have helped you on that front. Those of us coming in from the outside perhaps were a bit more caught up in the inherent optimism of the process. You are right that the difficult work will all be in the distillation (or fermentation) process and then in implimentation. I wrote up my own thoughts on the process along with some photos <a href="http://www.themennonite.org/bloggers/timjn/posts/Mennonites_Wine_and_Revisioning_MCC" rel="nofollow">here</a>. Roxy, thanks for sharing your thoughts on the process. I think you’ve got a healthy skepticism about the eventual outcome of the process. I suspect your experience working as a staff member of MCC may have helped you on that front. Those of us coming in from the outside perhaps were a bit more caught up in the inherent optimism of the process. You are right that the difficult work will all be in the distillation (or fermentation) process and then in implimentation.

I wrote up my own thoughts on the process along with some photos here.

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