FBM 2
Present: Tim, Robb, Eliza, Tom, Alex Hsu, Lisa, Becca
First, we talked to Tom to hear his opinion about the current state of affairs in CCF.
- Tom thinks moving back to house small groups is a good choice.
- When inviting people to CCF things, important to think of it as giving them info you think they would find useful instead of being their mom/dad and telling them what they should do.
Different positions in CCF
- Large group coordinator
- Peter Buhler has expressed interest in being significantly involved in doing large group stuff, but we’re not sure if he’s willing to lead.
- Others have expressed some interest, like Eliza.
- Perhaps we could have a rotation of people.
- Also having different small groups present at large group will fill some weeks. (Works better if we have more than one fully functioning small group :) )
- Small group coordinator
- We don’t have one this year.
- Contacts and keeps in touch with all small group leaders. Matches people up with small groups necessarily. Helps get small groups started and supports them.
- Discipleship coordinator
- Matches people up one-on-one with other Christians at Caltech (or nearby) in a mentor/mentee relationship.
- President
- No specific weekly tasks/responsibilities. The president’s responsibility is the overall direction and wellness of CCF.
- Thinks about the big picture. Makes sure the fellowship is healthy and takes steps to make it so if it isn’t.
- Prays a lot.
- Receives T-shirt with super chicken on it.
- A spiritual position – any attack on the fellowship goes through the president.
- Has name on the bank account along with secretary
- Secretary
- Takes notes at meetings
- Has name on the bank account and takes care of finances
- Applies for funding from ASCIT and the Capra Retreat Fund
- Maintains the website
- Goes to council meetings and contributes ideas
- Retreat coordinator
- Reserves space for retreat (months in advance! Be prepared)
- Sends out emails to CCF members about details
- Organizes rides
- Organizes activities on retreats
- Buys snacks.
- Dig-in Dude
- Plans once-a-term dig-ins.
- Pick a book from the bible
- Organize a prep meeting with Skippy and others from the fellowship
- Varying levels of preparation have been used in the past
- Several hours, several meetings
- Or meet once, find major themes after reading through once
- The more time you put into it, the better as with most things, but we all have limited time
- Arrange transportation if necessary
- Buy snacks
- We have a “tradition” that the dig-in dude gets buried in the sand at preterm retreat.
- Should be excited about reading the Bible. And studying it. A lot.
- Frosh prayer coordinator
- Finds frosh to do frosh prayer. Then they take it from there.
- Not many duties.
- Open to anybody, not just frosh. :P
- Rename to “pond prayer” to get rid of misnomer?
- Event coordinator
- This year, has done blue slip milkshakes and praise and prayer night.
- In the past, has organized all events that aren’t large group and small group meetings. But can easily be divided by event between different people.
- Can organize new events, get rid of traditional events that haven’t been fruitful lately, etc.
- Prayer meeting coordinator?
- Biweekly
- Sends out email a few days before and organizes rides
- Worship leader
- Lead worship at events (large group, FBMs, dig-ins, retreats, noonsing)
Alex Hsu suggests a prayer dig-in thing, where people get together and pray for a long time.
Tim: we have a CCF library which rarely gets used ever. Tim plans to organize this and share a google doc with all the specific titles. Luke recently donated a box of books to the CCF library.
Eric can help with the library.
Tim and Eliza need to put stuff in CCF storage.
Eliza wants to donate a book about being a Christian in college.
Lisa: having less people on council might be better. Nice to know that there are people actively involved in CCF who aren’t on council. Council should be a smaller subset of the active CCF community than it is now – either the fellowship should get bigger or council should get smaller.
Nominations
- Large group coordinator
- Peter Buhler
- Andy (co-coordinator)
- Small group coordinator
- Jams (Jessica Lam)
- Discipleship coordinator
- Jams
- President
- Robb
- Secretary
- Grace
- Retreat coordinator
- Eliza
- Dig-in dude
- Vivian
- Eliza
- Frosh prayer coordinator
- Lisa
- Alex
- Jams
- Event accomplisher
- Eliza
- Worship leader
- Jams
- Cocoa ordinator
- Robb
- Meyers-Briggs proctor
- Skippy
- Honorary alum/undergraduate (in addition to actual alum)
- Tim
- Becca
- Honorary permafrosh
- Tim
- Director of chivalry
- Eric
- Honorary lion keeper
- Tim
- Sleep schedule dictator
- Andrew
- Tights procurer
- Becca
- Diabetes inducer
- Eliza
- Tangent squelcher
- Grace
- Couch occupier
- Tim
- Mascot
- Aslan
- Funny nominations nominator
- Eliza
If no one wants to have a position, we won’t have it unless it’s an essential role.
We need a president and secretary on paper at the very minimum. The responsibilities may be shared amongst other council members if absolutely necessary, but really we should have a president and secretary both in name and in reality.
If multiple people have been nominated for a position, they should all talk to each other about who wants to take a position and come to a conclusion. At FBM 3 we will ‘vote’ on people but as long as there is an agreement and one person has decided that they want to have a role (and the others have decided they don’t) they will get unanimously elected in basically all cases.
