Core Team​

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• Attend Core team meetings (usually once every 2-3 months)

• Brainstorm ideas for future series

• Assign Core team member to coordinate/lead each series

• Schedule the next 2-3 months worth of cornerstone series and leads for each

• Brainstorm potential volunteer speakers

• Administrative topics and issues/concerns/feedback

• Reflect on the series assigned to you and come up with a flow/breakdown of topics for each Sunday within the series; think of reference verses and spiritual content to provide volunteer speakers; consider an overall theme, name/title, verse, etc. for the series

• Recruiting volunteer speakers to give Cornerstone talks for the series assigned to you

• Communicate with volunteers speakers the expectations and roles and responsibilities

• Send email with series breakdown and reference materials to volunteer speakers and cc Core team and Nevine Mikhail (who will assist in creating poster/announcement/template slide for presentations)

• Check-in with volunteer speaker the week before the talk to discuss their approach/content, offer help, answer questions, and confirm they will be ready

• Provide Father James a catchy headline to describe the upcoming Cornerstone talk a week before, so that it can be included in the weekly announcement email and/or the Friday email that goes out to the congregation

• Upload volunteer speaker presentation files onto the Church google drive

• Responsible to start each Cornerstone session within a series assigned to you; this includes introducing the new series and introducing each volunteer speaker

• Responsible to coordinate the flow of the Cornertone sessions on Sunday within a series assigned to you; this includes passing the microphones around, keeping track of time, support the speaker and participants during the session

• Responsible to sort through any changes, conflicts, issues that arise during a series assigned to you

• Seek feedback from participants and speakers on an ongoing basis to help improve the Cornerstone service

• Offer support to others on the Core team as needed

Volunteer Speaker

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• Commit to prepare presentation content for the Cornerstone talk assigned to you

• Stay in contact with designated Core team member; be proactive to review reference material provided, ask questions, check-in on approach or content

• Follow instructions and guidelines provided in the email from designated Core team member; in particular use template slide if provided, send a copy of your presentation 1-3 days before your talk, and include interactive small group exercises to keep audience engaged during the session 

• Manage time during the session to avoid going too long (session should not go over 30 minutes)

• If changes to your availability or issues arise, please be proactive and timely to communicate this to the designated Core team member as soon as possible and help find a solution