Northeast Region (RFO 115) - Chapter Advisors


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The Northeast Region's Lutheran Community Services Team is taking steps to increase its involvement in boosting member awareness. Effective this summer, volunteers will be added to help chapter board leaders address routine matters and hot administrative topics. This volunteer's title will be Chapter Advisor. Each Chapter Advisor will cover one to three chapters, attend one-fourth of the chapter meetings, and be on call to answer questions. Advisors may come from the current chapter board or may have formerly served on a chapter leadership board. Not every chapter will have an advisor initially.

The Chapter Advisor is the liaison between the chapter and the LCS team. LCSSs still handle the tougher (non-routine) and personnel issues, and will attend several but fewer chapter meetings. Nonetheless, the net result will be more “face-time” with the chapter boards by those more thoroughly trained to resource chapter administration. The first line of inquiry is from the chapter leader to the Chapter Advisor. LCSSs will now shift their focus to working on advancing the chapters and the overall chapter programs plus work with FRs on congregational and member awareness activities.

The intent is to:

1) bring more, and more consistent, information to chapter leaders;
2) encourage more feedback from chapters and devote more attention to chapter issues;
3) support additional sharing of best practices; and
4) offer a method for gaining input to further improve training and reference materials.

Chapter Advisor - Click this link for a more detailed role description.

We are pleased to announce that the following individuals have been appointed as Chapter Advisors for 2009 and assigned to the chapters as noted. Chapters not having one will be served by the LCS Team.


as of December 1, 2008

Burlington	*Mike & Karen Hickey*
Camden NJ	*Mike & Karen Hickey*
Capital District NY
Central NJ	*Susan Lee*
Central NY
Chautauqua NY	*Jonathan Olsen*
Eastern Nassau	*Honey Pabst*
Eastern NJ
Erie NY	*Jonathan Olsen*
Hartford	*Melba Grieshaber*
Hudson Valley	*David Adler*
Hunterdon
Kings County
Maine	*Alva Pingel*
Metro Boston
Metro North NY
Metro NY
Morris County	*Dan Purner*
New Hampshire	*Alva Pingel*
New Haven CT	*Melba Grieshaber*
New London CT	*Fred Linden*
Niagara Falls NY	*Jonathan Olsen*
North Central NY
North Shore NJ	*Susan Lee*
Northeastern CT
Northeastern MA
Northeastern NJ
Northeastern NY
Northwestern NJ	*Dan Purner*
Ocean County NJ
Queens
Rhode Island	*Fred Linden*
Rochester NY	*Rev. Don Muller*
South Central NY	*Rev. Don Muller*
Southeast Jersey Shore
Southeastern MA
Southeastern NY	*David Adler*
Southern Tier
Southwestern NJ	*Mike & Karen Hickey*
Suffolk	*Honey Pabst*
Union County NJ
Vermont	*Alva Pingel*
Western CT	*Melba Grieshaber*
Western MA	*Louise Gadbois*
Western Nassau	*Honey Pabst*
Worcester	*Fred Linden*

The main elements of the Chapter Advisory role are:

- Serve as a resource to answer questions from chapter leaders.
- Report progress of the chapter boards in reaching fraternal goals to the assigned Lutheran Community Services team member.
- Ensure communications with Financial Representatives about chapter events and issues.
- Monitor the chapter leadership board election process.
- Share best practices with the assigned chapters and with the LCS Team.
- Serve as a liaison between chapter leadership boards and the LCS Team.

Each chapter advisor volunteer will be working with the Coordinator of Chapter Advisors and the Lutheran Community Services Specialist serving the geographic area. This program will expand to include all the chapters. In the interim, those chapters that do not have a Chapter Advisor, will be served by their LCSS, as in the past.

We believe that this program will increase the support given to chapter leaders, allow the LCS Team to focus on increasing member and volunteer awareness, and provide time for the LCSSs to work more closely with the financial team.

Your comments are appreciated.

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