Interim Ministry Team (IMT)

This team is responsible to the Council, whose task will be to work in collaboration with the Interim General Presbyter to:

• Help focus the Presbytery (its staff, officers, ministry teams, and other program groups) on the interim tasks,
• Be a channel of effective two-way communication among various ministry groups, and between the Presbytery and its congregation and their leaders, and
• Ensure a structure and process that will provide continuity between the learning of the interim period and the arrival of the new Presbytery of Wabash Valley.

The Interim Ministry Team shall seek to assist the Council in its effective completion of the five developmental tasks of the interim period:

• As it engages in the interim process through recommended readings, occasional "exploring our future" activities, helping to arrange and host listening conferences, and promote in other possible ways the necessity of new behaviors (change) during this interim time, and
• As it seeks to communicate to the Presbytery and its congregations that the naming of a Presbyter Search (Nominating) Committee will occur only after the Interim Ministry Team, the Interim General Presbyter, and the Council deem a readiness by virtue of the completion of the interim tasks. Essential to that readiness is the completion of a comprehensive mission study and its complementary vision, priorities, and goals. This will enable the Presbyter Search (Nominating) Committee to more effectively match the gifts, skills, and experience of the presbyter candidate with the requirements of the Presbytery of Wabash Valley's future direction for ministry.

Meeting

The team meets the fourth Monday of each month 2:00-5:00 p.m. at Geneva Center.

Membership

Authorized as a seven to nine in membership.