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The Future

 

Goals of the BCCC

    The Vision for the Future

    At the Installation Service, BCCC President Rev. Jackson gave a Vision Council's Future ure.  By means of this newsletter, Info-Line and our web site, it is the goal of the Council to be the information center for the Christian community of Bergen County.  To enhance the communication, the Council will make use of the internet technology.  Through the use of e-mail, the Council has developed a communication called Info-Line, a means by which up to the minute notices of events and concerns of our community can be circulated to the Church community.

To be a part of this communication, notify the BCCC staff of your e-mail address.  The econd step to boost communication between the Council and individual Churches is to have a representative from each congregation to act as a liaison between their Church and the BCCC.

 

 

A major goal for the BCCC is to answer the question for pastors and congregations:

What?s in it for me and my congregation?

 

   The Council hopes to offer programs that will enrich the ministry of every pastor in the

county.  In the planning stages, is a program to enhance the computer knowledge of both pastors and church secretaries.  Courses, taught by a professional in a computer lab, on the extensive use of computer programs such as:  Word, Excel, Publisher and Power Point are hoped to be offered.  This is all being done in an effort to broaden the work level of church staff and to help clergy make better use of computer technology to support their  ministry. 

 

By coming together in prayer, at workshops and sharing times of fellowship, it is hoped to bring about understanding and friendship among the divers denominations and cultures of the Bergen County church community.  It is a vision to be a cluster of believers that focus more on our commonalities than or differences.

 

The many goals of the BCCC?s vision for its future are being formulated into commissions that will be headed by a board member.  It is desired to have clergy and lay persons from various congregations to work on these commissions.

 

At present, four commissions are being formulated:  Commission on Human Services, chaired by Gloria Layne; Commission on Pastoral Care and Public Institutions, chaired by Rev. Dr. W. Marcus Small; Commission on Ecumenical and Interfaith Relations,

chaired by Rev. Lynne Bleich Weber; and the Commission on Ministerial Empowerment, chaired by Rev. Rae Brown. 

 

If you feel called to work on any of these commissions with the Council, you are invited to get in touch with the BCCC staff at 201-384-2454 or bergencouncilofchurches@yahoo.com

 

 

 

 

 

The Bergen County Council of Churches' vision and goal for the future is to bring the Christian Churches of Bergen County together and to empower these Churches to do what they do better.