Monday, December 13, 2010

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

MC: Annie

Announcements: Winterfaire, elections are 2 weeks after the break, applicants for executive department have special consideration

Program: Guesstures

Agape Christian Fellowship Leadership Process

Level 1

1. Please describe briefly your relationship with Jesus and how you have come to faith in him

2. What is your church background? In what ways, if any, do you serve your congregations?

3. Choose as many words as you like you think accurately describes you: introverted, funny, laid-back, hard-working, self-motivated, loud, passionate, morning person, night person, extroverted, out-going, shy, complex, musical, administrative, teacher, caring, energetic, animated, peace-maker, prayerful, mysterious, focused, visionary, detail-oriented, sheltered, shepherd, servant, evangelist, technical, revolutionary

4. What has helped develop your Christian life and/or leadership qualities? Please Describe.

5. Your relationship with others

a.) Briefly describe your relationships with friends

b.) Briefly describe your relationships with non-believing friends.

c.) Do you have accountability relationships?

d.) Have you ever been discipled? By whom? What was your experience like?

e.) What is your view of God-centered relationship with a person of the opposite gender?

f.) How would you feel working with someone of opposite gender? How would you feel being led by someone of opposite gender?

g.) What is your relationship with alcohol? What is your personal view on the consumption of alcohol? How would you advise someone under 21 to think about alcohol? Turning 21 or over 21?

6. Briefly describe your desire to be a leader with Agape

7. Gifts and passions

a.) What do you think your spiritual and natural gifts are?

b.) What do you like to do for fun?

c.) What does risk taking in ministry look like to you? Share one story where you shared some aspect of your faith with a non-Christian friend.

8. What is your availability for next year?

a.) What is your class load like next semester?

b.) What is your approximate GPA? (Flunking for Jesus helps no one :D)

c.) How much time are you willing to commit to Agape ministry next semester?

Level 2

9. Your relationship with God

a.) What has God been teaching you lately about Himself?

b.) What has He been teaching you about yourself?

c.) What has He been teaching you about others?

d.) How would you describe your prayer life? When does it thrive, when does it struggle?

10. Logistics

a.) What is your personal view on abortion?

b.) Would differences in church doctrines such as homosexuality and female pastors hinder your relationship with other Agape leaders?

11. Have you been on a mission trip before? If so, please describe your experience. How how this experience been incorporated in your world view?

12. How would you describe the current "state" of our fellowship?

13. What are some aspects of Agape that you would like to see stay the same? What would you like to see change?

14. What vision do you have for the group's future, both as a fellowship and in our potential impact on the campus?

15. How would you like to be involved in advancing the Christ-likeness of the fellowship?

Monday, November 10, 2010 Minutes

Topic of the Month: Peace

Wednesday 12/8/10

Worship: Dave (guitar), Praise (Guitar)

MC: ask to respond to email for nomination; remove items off drums; introduce Pastor Jerry-from Maranatha Church in San Ramon, father of several youths, (is outgoing)

Candidates: wait for candidates to see if they can fit Agape into their schedules. If they can, let them be in department but not necessary the leader of the department

Candidates of executive branch must be filtered through interview

Other candidates are requested to consider spiritual preparedness for their service

Winterfaire:

Wafflemakers- Calvin, Andrew, Bradford

Toaster Oven- Calvin

Waffle Ingredients-Hannah

Cleaning equipment-Annie

Forks-Calvin

Price per waffle-3 tickets

Estimated profit-...disclosed...

Cooking tip- don't over mix, banana not cut before hand, blueberries less messy

Cleaning Tip- use white garbage bags for easier clean up

Action Items:

Hannah- Waffle ingredients

Calvin-waffle maker, toaster oven, forks

Andrew-waffle maker

Annie-cleaning supply, candidate questions, potential devotional material

Agenda for Monday 12/6/10

Topic of the month: Peace

1) Discuss Wednesday

-Worship

- Pastor Jerry on Peace

- Debrief on who is running for positions?

- Ask for volunteers for winterfaire

2) Talk about leadership for next semester.. who is running etc

3) Winterfaire ( waffles and jello) distribute tasks

4) other business I can't remember

Winterfaire

Hey Guys forms are due tomorrow

For Mango pudding and coconut jello: Nicole is donating ingredients so if we sell as $1 per piece, profit will be $120

For Hot chocolate and cookies... Not going to work in my opinion

Costco prices online ( don't know if they are cheaper at the store)- Starbucks hot chocolate ( $35 dollars for 112 cups of hot chocolate. $17 for 50 cups ( 100 cups $34) AND also the mix uses milk so it won't be cheap. If we sell at 100 cups at $1.50 per cup with cookies we might not even make $40 dollars profit.

Apple Pie with whipped cream ( I still have to check)

We could always make waffles again... it's a lot of work but it was relatively profitable last time we sold around 93 waffles at around $3( although the price kept changing haha)made $200 profit. If we cut the waffle in half and sell it for $1.50, buy as much ingredients as last time, I think three times as many people will buy it which means a greater profit.

Tell me what you think asap.

Position Nominations

Heyloo, here are the nominations followed by the number of votes per nominee. A lot of the papers didn't have last names on them, so I went by the sign in sheet and guess at who they were referring to. Hopefully I didn't get any wrong. I can double check to see if I have all their emails, and then email them asking if they'd be willing to run for the spot, and ask them to pray and consider it. Sound good?

President:
- Maria Lim (4)
- Crystal Van (2) (one person wrote "crystal geyser," which i'm guessing is a joke in reference to the water bottle company... i'm guessing he/she meant this one)
- Matthew Wong (1)
- Kimberley Yu (1)
- Lynn Voelker (1)

Vice President:
- Katy Kwan (3)
- Matthew Wong (3)
- Priscilla Tai (2)
- Jennifer Chen (2)
- Elizabeth Chen (1)
- Brandon Wong (1)

Worship Department:
- Matthew Wong (7)
- Dave Morales (8)
- Praise Ching (4)
- Elizabeth Chen (2)
- Brandon Wong (3)

Secretary:
- Cynthia Li(2)
- Kelly Lee (2)
- Katy Kwan (3)
- Renny Ng (1)
- Crystal Van (1)
- Lynn Voelker (1)
- Andrea Tu (2)

Public Relations:
- Lori Chinn (9)
- Jenny Lee (2)
- Matthew Wong (1)
- Aaron (Wong?) (1) (isn't on sign in sheet. is in basketball now, if this is same one...)
- Maria Lim (1)
- Kimberley Yu (1)
- Elizabeth Chen (1)

Treasurer:
- Jennifer Chen (3)
- Andrea Tu (1)
- Brandon Wong (1)
- Justin Talbott (1)
- Cindy Chiu (2)
- Lynn Voelker (1)
- Elizabeth Chen (1)

Club Representative:
- Justin Talbott (2)
- Crystal Van (2)
- Praise Ching (2)
- Andrew Akard (1)
- Brandon Wong (2)
- Katy Kwan (1)
- Jennifer Chen (1)

For Wednesday 12/1/10

Be aware at anytime we will be taking a club picture for the yearbook

Worship- Abi?

MC: Andrew

Talk about leadership (voted into effect 11/29/10

Explain new leadership system- Hannah

-Club Rep Dept- Andrew

- Secretary Dept- Annie?

-Worship Dept- Abi?

-PR Dept- Kim

Exec Dept-Hannah

Treasury Dept- Nicole/Hannah

( look over the duties for each and feel free to add additional duties)Emphasize the commitment of being a leader

At least one person from each dept has to be at the Agape Monday meeting and have to keep in regular contact with other members of the dept

Ask them to nominate people who they think fit the positions, make sure they don't nominate senior leaders or just nominate leaders

Announce elections are in 2 weeks (before that, leaders will talk to people who have been nominated)

End with guesstures if we have time

Changes to the leadership format:

Instead of all people in a dept be there on Mondays 60% of the time, one person from each department has to be there each week. This excludes the executive department because well... yea... they are president and vice president. This means there has to be really good contact and usage of the BLOG. Also all leaders still have to be at the regular Agape meetings 90% of the time.

NOT FOR WEDNESDAY

Winterfaire

mango pudding and coconut jello for $1

and apple pie with whipped cream $2

or hot chocolate and a cookie for $1.50 (need to check costs)

Agenda for Monday Meeting 11/29/10

1) Discuss new leadership departments for next semester
2) Amend/vote on whether to accept the plan
3) Plan for Wednesday meeting
- Take yearbook picture whenever that yearbook person comes
- Worship
-Talk about different leadership departments, duties in each, etc
-Ask people to nominate people who they think are good for a role (not a commitment, but to get people aware they have this talent)
- Encourage those people to come to Monday meetings to check learn more about the positions
-Games ( if there's time)
4) Talk about Winterfaire (apple pie and ice cream, mango jello?)
5) Debrief on Potluck (what was good, what can be done better)
6) End in Prayer

Agape Leadership Departments
1) Executive Dept( President and Vice President)
Duties- 1) come up with the agenda for Monday meetings/ tentative agenda for Wednesday
2) Lead the Monday Meeting ( making sure people don't get off- topic!)
3) Finding Bible passages to study with help if need/ making sure speaker are contacted
4) Making sure other leaders know what they have to do/ by when
5) Taking notes along with the secretary

2) Worship Dept
Duties- 1) Make sure there is a worship leader each week ( if we have worship)
2) Keep in contact with the worship leader/ get his/her requests for transparencies
3) get the requested transparencies ready on Wednesday
4) being responsible for the worship binders

3) Public Relations Dept
Duties- 1) Putting up new posters each month around the school pertaining to the "fruit"
2) Spreading the word of the club events (ex: Potluck) through internet means (ex: Facebook)
3) Making the posters for fundraisers (Co-curricular, Winterfaire)

4) Secretary Dept
Duties-1) Take notes at the Monday meetings
2) Post notes on the blog
3)Send a short outline of Wednesday's agenda to all club members
4) Make a sign in sheet for Wednesday
5) Keep a record of all the sign in sheets for future reference

5) Treasury Dept
Duties- 1) Keep track of the club funds
2) reminburse people
3) Send money to John, the child we support in Africa
4) Decide whether we need to fundraise

6) Club Rep
Duties- 1) Go to all club rep meetings on Tuesdays
2) Inform all leaders on what was discussed in the club rep meetings
3) Getting all the forms for winterfaire, club hours, etc
4) Contact the club coordinator when needed

All leaders except the club reps should be present at the Monday Meetings at least 60% of the time. The president and vice preside should not miss these meetings more than a few times. All leaders should be a regular member and be present at Agape on Wednesdays for 90% of the time).

If the leaders fail to do so...... they endure my wrath? iono lol but yea I wanted to emphasize leadership is a commitment and should be taken as seriously as any other commitment

This will be taken into effect or not after a majority vote on 11/29/10

Leadership How To

HIGHLIGHTS OF FACEBOOK MEETING

Planning needs direction

> Prepare an agenda before each meeting [Hannah]

Departments of 2 to 3 people

> Leader paired with each department to train incoming service-ers, decide as a department if department head necessary

No execution of decisions without majority consensus

Minimize (notice it's not eliminate) the number of side conversations, and try not to skip ahead on the agenda

Recruiting New leaders

> Set up survey for two areas to serve in

> Must not be serving reluctantly

> Must realize it's a commitment

> Go through screening process

Agape Potluck Writeup!

Hey Lowell Agape Leadership + Others!

Thanks for making it such an awesome potluck tonight! I know all of us put in a lot of hard work, whether it was planning, praying, labeling (:, demonstrating, leading worship, or simply cleaning up. What kind of feedback are you getting and what do you think we can do better next time to improve Agape's future events?

Special thanks to...

hannah: for helping us get the church and cleaning and everythingggg.

annie: for labeling with awesome labels.

kim: for being mc and improving under PRESSURE.

arnrow: for skipping dinner with me and learning songs and leading games

andrew: for being amazing at drum prodigyness and leading games

abi: for demonstrating the funnest game ever. that we are definitely doing again (:

thats all. short and sweet.

not really the short part tho...xD

Monday, November 22, 2010

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2010

SCHEDULE

4:00 Agape Meeting [Hannah, Abi]

Skit

4:30 Wait at Flagpole

4:45 Leave for Potluck [Kim, Annie]

5:00 Mingle {upstairs} [Abi-welcoming person]

6:00 Dinner {downstairs} [Mr. Chan, Kim] [Kim & Hannah Cleanup]

7:30 Sharing {upstairs} [Andrew]

8:00 {downstairs} Singspiration [Calvin & Nathan]

8:45/9 Games [Andrew]

10:30 Leave/Cleanup

Games [Andrew]

I Love My Neighbor [Arnrow & Andrew]

The -est Game [Kim]

Winking Killer [Abi]

Guesstures [Calvin]

Ghost [Abi]

Shopping List [Kim] -- Thank You!

name tags

forks

knives

spoons

napkins

gravy powder packs

WINTERFAIRE

Apple Pie

Coconut/mango jelly

VOLUNTEER HOURS Due 12/14

Hannah = UCSF

Calvin - food pantry

2011 Samaritan's purse?

ACTION ITEMS

Kim, please buy items/also, please prepare a set of directions to your church/finally, please prepare for the -est game, do you think you'll need an assistant or someone of the sort?

Calvin, please prepare for worship, call us if you need anything/also, please prepare for Guesstures

THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR YOUR HARD WORK!

Rides to Potluck

Since not everyone is able to have a ride there, for the rest of us, could we meet up at the flagpole to get there as a group? If so, could someone mention on the facebook group we will be getting there as a group?

I think some people are not going, or maybe going because they don't know how to get there, or don't want to get there on their own

Volunteer hours

Hey guys.
So, we only have like, three weeks of school left for this semester. How are we on volunteer hours? If we dont have many, we need to get something started really soon.

monday, november 15, 2010

New Duties

Abi-emailer

Kim-reminderer

Wednesday

MC-

transitioner

announcements

split off into groups

Reconvene for final prayer

Small groups- ask for contacts, keep same group for rest of semester

one question

Annie+Abi

Hannah+Kim

Andrew+Mr. Chan

Worship- Nathan?

Announcements-

Potluck next week

Passing the sign up sheet around

Schedule-

4:05-Worship

4:23-Message

4:40-Small Group

Potluck

Turkey (__who?__)

Location: NEED LOCATION BY WEDNESDAY 3:48PM

Calvin-across lakeshore

Mr. Chan- 18th and Gary

Hannah- 28th & Balboa

Food: (_what entrees are leaders bringing?_)

Worship-Calvin [assemble worship team] WORSHIP PRACTICE (yes or no)?

Sharing-Andrew [what's the sharing question]

Games-Kimberly

Winking killer

I love my neighbor

The -est game (Kim)

Catchphrase

Ghost (Abi)

PRELIMINARY SCHEDULE (subject to change)

5:00-Mingle

6:00-Dinner (need someone to pray)

7:30-Sharing (Andrew)

8:30-Singspiration

9:00-Games

SKIT (yes or no?)

SHOPPING LIST-(who's buying?)

Name tags

Forks

Knives

Spoons

Napkins

Action Items

Abi-call bradford about Thanksgiving potluck

Calvin-call Nathan for worship

Call for location

Hannah, Kim ask for locations

Next Week's Agenda

Thanksgiving Potluck the next day

Food-(who's bringing what?)

Finalize Schedule

Shopping list (finalize who's doing grocery shopping)

Games-(finalize list and people leading games)

Decide who MC is

Review Food list

Worship-what songs did the worship team decide on

Monday, November 8, 2010

Wednesday

Worship-Calvin

Bible Study-Hannah

MC-Annie

Announcements-potluck

Thanksgiving Potluck

MC-?

TASK DISTRIBUTION

Food (leaders bring main entree)-Hannah

Sushi (Calvin)

Fried Rice (Annie)

Waffles?

Pie(?)

Invitation to Wash-Calvin

Worship-Calvin [assemble worship team]

Sharing-Andrew [question]

Games-Kimberly

Winking killer

I love my neighbor

The -est game (Kim)

Catchphrase

Ghost (Abi)

PRELIMINARY SCHEDULE (subject to change)

5:00-Mingle

6:00-Dinner (need someone to pray)

7:30-Sharing (Andrew)

8:30-Singspiration

9:00-Games

SKIT (?)

SHOPPING LIST-?

Name tags

Forks

Knives

Spoons

Napkins

Action Items

Hannah-study link

Pending Agenda

Winter Fair

Thanksgiving potluck

Praise Night

Co-curricular

Monday, October 25, 2010

PROVERBS 15:18 A HOT TEMPERED MAN STIRS UP DISSENSION, BUT A PATIENT MAN CALMS A QUARREL

-Don't fight fire with fire

-A patient man "calms a quarrel" by taking the time to want to and understand the circumstances, being empathetic and listening with an open heart

-A patient man would not raise his voice

-A patient man reflects actions, considers different perspectives and receptions, waits

-An impatient person "stirs up dissension" by NOT taking the time to listen and thrusting his opinion upon the other.

PROVERBS 14:29 A PATIENT MAN HAS GREAT UNDERSTANDING, BUT A QUICK-TEMPERED MAN DISPLAYS FOLLY

-We can have "great understanding" by being patient. Be patient by waiting for God to reveal his will and wisdom to us. Be patient by waiting for circumstances to be revealed to us.

-Think before you act

-"Great understanding" means wisdom, but also acceptance and acknowledgement of differences (in opinions, or character, or personality)

-VS. a quick-tempered man who is rash and quick to judge

PROVERBS 16:32 BETTER A PATIENT MAN THAN A WARRIOR, A MAN WHO CONTROLS HIS TEMPER THAN ONE WHO TAKES A CITY

PROVERBS 19:11 A MAN'S WISDOM GIVES HIM PATIENCE; IT IS TO HIS GLORY TO OVERLOOK AN OFFENSE

PROVERBS 25:15 THROUGH PATIENCE A RULER CAN BE PERSUADED, A GENTLE TONGUE CAN BREAK A BONE

New Blog Site for Meeting Minutes! =D

Hey guys!
So I just made this blog site so we can keep discussing the MMMs after monday meetings, since we don't usually finish. Yup, so I guess we'll just have this as a discussion place.
- Abi