New Director of Children & Family Ministry position announced during 2012 Annual Meeting
Videos and other resources from the meeting are now available online
 Northwest Conference Superintendent Mark R. Stromberg announced to delegates to the 2012 Annual Meeting that the 2012-13 budget includes funds to create a new, part-time staff position to call a Director of Children & Family Ministry. The announcement came during the meeting's first Business Session on Friday, April 20, at Alexandria Covenant Church in Alexandria, MN. Delegates approved the $965,679 budget at the meeting's second Business Session on Saturday morning.
"This is such an important, important thing for us to be about. It is essential that we connect with young people in our churches," Stromberg said. He reflected on the power of culture and how kids are being drawn away from the Church and Christ's redemptive influence, and that it is our responsibility to do all we can to reverse that trend.
Stromberg explained that the conference staff has been undergoing reorganization to align positions with the NWC's Ministry Priorities of Congregational Vitality, Church Planting, and Children, Youth & Family. The area of Children, Youth & Family is divided into two part-time positions: Director of Youth Ministry and the new Director of Children & Family Ministry.
 "This person would resource children's directors in our churches, and also dream up ways to help our under-resourced churches in this key area of ministry," Stromberg said.
In addition, Stromberg shared about a new "Care to Pastors" initiative that is intended to provide proactive support and encouragement to the members of the Northwest Conference ministerium.
"In the ideal, I would envision having a full-time ministry staff person whose focus is the personal and positional health of our pastors, as we believe that this is essential to the missional health of our churches," Stromberg said. "This is the first baby-step in that direction."
To finish reading the full story online, and for links to videos, photos and resources from the 2012 Annual Meeting, visit: http://nwc-cov.org/2012-nwc-annual-meeting
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