Membership

MISSION--The PCUUC Membership Committee is to find and welcome visitors and to encourage member growth and development.

SCOPE--The Membership Committee’s work encompasses Publicity, Hospitality, New Member Orientation and Ceremonies, Volunteer Development, and Caring.

1. Publicity—Using all media within our financial means, provide consistent and widely available information about PCUUC.

2. Hospitality –Greet visitors, friends and members to encourage their participation and return.

3. New Member Orientation and Ceremonies—Co-host monthly Getting to Know UU sessions with The Rev.Leonetta Bugleisi. Provide information about PCUUC and Unitarian Universalism and learn how we each arrived at PCUUC. Assist Leonetta with bi-monthly New Member Ceremonies. We provide new members with packages of information to orient them to PCUUC.

4. Volunteer Development—We provide numerous opportunities for visitors and members to volunteer to help PCUUC. In addition to helping to sustain PCUUC, the volunteer will bond with others and experience a sense of satisfaction that comes from helping in a community.

5. Caring—A Caring Chairperson contacts the members of PCUUC and asks them to do the specific Caring tasks that come along. The rewards of providing support to friends and members in times of need are immense.

TASKS FOR THE MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE

PUBLICITY:

1. Write and publish brochures, pamphlets, letters, flyers, and direct mail advertising as needed to publicize PCUUC.

2. Serve as liaison with Yellow Pages Publishers to provide display advertising copy.

3. Submit the upcoming month’s schedule of Sunday services to contacts at the area papers. Email schedule to most contacts. Fax schedule to Macomb Daily contact.

4. Research and write community interest articles for publication. Submit articles to area papers. Provide digital photographs when possible.

5. Order UUA publications for distribution.

6. Respond to email requests for information received from the PCUUC Web site. Record contact information on a list.

7. Design and order signage or create signage as needed.

HOSPITALITY

1. Greeters welcome first time visitors: § offer information from the Welcome Table § ensure visitors have the information they need to enjoy their first visit. § ask newcomers to complete and return (to the greeter) the Guest Registry form. Greeters also welcome returning visitors, ensuring they have a nametag and have signed the visitor log.

2. Make nametags for visitors and members as needed. Purchase nametags and holders.

3. Welcome packets are made by a volunteer who monitors and replenishes the supply of inserts and makes packets as needed.

4. The Visitor List keeper takes information received each Sunday and updates the visitor list data list (MS Word). This information is provided to our minister who sends visitors a card thanking them for visiting and to our newsletter person.

5. A volunteer makes follow-up calls to our visitors during the week after their first visit and following their third visit to Paint Creek to thank them for coming and to invite them to participate in our small group activities.

NEW MEMBER ORIENTATION

1. Two-three members participate in the monthly Getting to Know UU session after Sunday service to assist our minister in describing PCUUC and share with our visitors how they found PCUUC and what they like about PCUUC. They also answer any questions the visitors may have.

2. A volunteer orders blue chalice pins.

3. A volunteer responds to requests from our minister for assistance with the written material for the New Member Ceremony.

4. All members contribute dishes to pass and attend the New Member Pot Luck luncheon held bi-annually to welcome our new members.

5. Mentors are assigned to new members to get to know them, ensure they are invited to our small group activities, and make personal contact with the new members.

VOLUNTEER DEVELOPMENT

1. Provide numerous opportunities for visitors and members to volunteer to help PCUUC through requests, written and oral, for help with PCUUC activities and by providing opportunities for wider community involvement through our Outreach/Social Justice Committee.

2. Identify and publish, on paper and on the Web site, the tasks that are needed to sustain PCUUC.

3. Survey and inventory the skills of the PCUUC members so that appropriate individuals can be asked to help when needed.

4. Recognize the service provided by Volunteers at a Volunteer Recognition event and on an individual basis as appropriate.

CARE TEAM

This team will move into appropriate responsive action to respond to illness, hospitalizations, celebrations and other rites of passage (i.e. births, weddings, deaths).

The congregation will be reminded occasionally that they are all members of the Care Team and are asked to keep the minister, Sher Jagitani & Mary Louise Porter informed regarding their knowledge of a friend or member in need of a card, visit or healing meals. The team will decide on the appropriate response and move into action.

Some examples of action:

§ sending around clip board to sign-up to deliver meals to those recuperating from surgery or illness or grieving from loss of a loved one.

§ taking collection for flowers or other appropriate gesture for grieving families

§ circulating cards for celebrations or illness

§ possibly responding with a small token gift for births or weddings

§ communicating with the congregation regarding timing of calls, visits or cards for recuperating friends and members.

There will be a small CARE box placed on the information tables by March 1, 2004 for people to put in suggestions or names of those in need. This box will be reviewed by the Care Team weekly.