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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.

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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