Presbyterians have COMs, too!

Check out this Committee on Ministry Handbook from the Presbyterians. Note that this links directly to a PDF file so depending on the speed of your internet connection it may take a while to load.

First Parish of Sudbury's COM Web Site

The First Parish of Sudbury's COM page has links to their charter, notes from training, results of a survey they conducted, and more.

Neat Idea From the Los Gatos Church

Ever heard of "secret shoppers?" Well, the Los Gatos church came up with the idea of "Mystery Worshippers." They asked the district to send someone to anonymously visit the church and to report on his/her impressions. Their two Mystery Worshippers' reports are linked from their Committee Reports page.

UU Church of Arlington COM and Search Committee Joint Survey

This document in Microsoft Word format summarizes the results of a survey that the UU Church of Arlington conducted as a joint effort between their search committee and their COM.

Miscellaneous Resources from the UUA Web Site

Here are a few resources related to COMs from the UUA web site:

• Committee on Ministry Not Just for the Minister
• (to be continued later, as the UUA web site appears to have just crashed!)

Thomas Jefferson District

The Thomas Jefferson District is a gold mine of Committee on Ministry-related information! Some of the materials available include:

• Descriptions of Committee on Ministry
• Committee on Ministry Schedule
• Models for Evaluation of Ministers/Congregations
• Criticism in Ministry
• Case studies, and more. All linked from their Resource Reader for Committee on Ministry
  
• Complete document as one pdf file
  

UU Congregation of Princeton's Committee on Ministry

By a complete coincidence, when I did some googling looking for other church's committee on ministry sites, one of the first that caught my eye was this one from Forest Gilmore's "new" church! It looks like they've been doing (or recently did) some thinking on the purpose of their COM. So take a look at Princeton's Committee on Ministry site.