Conference Lay Minister Program ( ClayM) Training Coordinator  

Open to United Methodist clergy and laity with significant local church leadership experience.

Goal:   To design, coordinate, implement and help teach Conference Lay Minister ( CLayM )   training weeks and other work directed by the ClayM Committee.

Responsibilities:

• Promote CLayM program.
• Send out applications, reference forms and brochures (updated and supplied by the CLayM Committee) to CLayM training prospects.
• Coordinate November and January CLayM training weeks, including
• Receiving applications
• Designing the week
• Securing trainers
• Arranging for food
• Copying handouts
• Teaching approximately half the course modules and facilitating discussions
• Evaluating training sessions
• Track assignments of ClayM Pastors and their clergy mentors for the ClayM Committee.
• Facilitate District Superintendents’ personnel work with CLayM graduates by
• Meeting individually with each CLayM training participant during his or her second training week to discern his/her call to ministry and possible assignment.
• Preparing a profile on each graduate of the current class and a list of graduates after the January CLayM training, along with recommendations on past ClayM graduates for the Cabinet’s spring meeting on appointments and assignments.
• Participate in CLayM Committee meetings and CLayM graduate gatherings.
• Coordinate follow-up training for ClayM graduates.
• Present ClayM graduates at Annual Conference.

Financial Agreement:   $30 per hour, not to exceed an annual maximum of $12,000, plus accountable reimbursements for expenses and IRS allowance for mileage.

Starting Date:   June 1, 2005

Resumes Due April 30, 2005.   Interviews will be held the morning of May 11 at the UM Center, West Sacramento.

Send Resumes to:   Cathy Warner, ClayM Committee Chair, Boulder Creek UMC, P.O. Box 2187, Boulder Creek, CA, 95006.   Or FAX: 831-338-7156 Or E-mail cathyjwarner@earthlink.net. For more information call Cathy Warner at (831) 345-0086.