Dear Friends,

Below please find links to three documents from Ministry & Counsel (M&C) to be considered at our next Meeting for Business in Worship on February 8, 2026. This will be the main item for discernment on the business agenda. The full agenda will shared in the next few days.

The links are as follows:

  • Recommendations from M&C (text version) on Using Technology in Our Worship Spaces (text version),  (audio version)
  • Appendix 1: Summary of Potential Solution-Oriented Ways Forward Gathered from Prior Notes, Committee Input, and the Digital Suggestion Box
  • Appendix 2: Clarifying Roles for M&C and CMT

As you read through these materials, we ask that you hold the recommendations in a spirit of openness and curiosity. Please go beyond critiquing the recommendations and how they land with you individually. Consider a way forward that best serves the meeting as a whole.

M&C has invested significant time into listening and discerning over a way forward that addresses a wide range of concerns and considerations. We hope you will spend time reflecting on their recommendations, and bring your creative thinking to the Meeting for Business in Worship so that we can find clarity and unity together.

Blessings,

Erin Bumgarner,
Clerk of Ministry & Counsel

Jonathan Vogel-Borne
Proposed Presiding Clerk for the February 8, 2026 Meeting for Business in Worship