St Marks Leadership Board Application
Name
Date
Please briefly answer each question in the space provided. Your responses will be kept
confidential by the interview team.
1. Do you agree wholeheartedly with the Mission, Beliefs and Core Values of St
Marks United Methodist Church (see attached document)? If not please describe
any differences you may have.
2. How long have you been attending St Marks?
3. How have you served at St Marks?
4. Provide a brief description of your spiritual journey?
5. Describe a time where you shared your faith with someone who doesn’t know
Jesus, or who has become disconnected from Jesus or a local church.
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6. Are you either tithing to the church or working your way toward the tithe?
7. What do you do to grow deeper in your faith? How have you grown in the past
year?
8. Who disciples/mentors you? Who are you currently discipling/mentoring?
9. What are your top three strengths?
10. What are your top three weaknesses?
11. In light of the description of the leadership board (see attached document) how
are you being called to serve on the board?
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Leadership Board Description and Responsibilities
The leadership Board will consist of 12 lay members of St Marks UMC and the Senior
pastor. All members are committing to a three year term with a rotation process and
roster (4 members rotating off every year) being determined in the first year.
The Leadership Board is responsible to protect and champion the vision, values and
mission of St Marks United Methodist Church and to approve significant ministry
decisions. The board will meet approximately 12 times a year on a date and time to be
determined by the board for the work of accomplishing the mission of the Leadership
Board.
The Leadership Board absorbs all responsibilities of the administrative roles/grouping
defined in the Unite Methodist Book of Discipline (Staff Pastor Relations committee,
Trustees, Administrative Board, Nominations Committee and Finance committee)
It is recommended that these members have expertise in one or more of these areas:
Human Resource Development: personnel management, hiring and training
Operations Development: Administration, facility/site development, communication
and public relations
Stewardship: Financial management, congregational stewardship
Ministry: Evangelism, discipleship, missions and outreach
St Marks Core Values
Passionate and Authentic Worship
Culturally-relevant, Biblically based and technologically-current worship
Invitational Community
Building relationships by reaching out to our community
Growing in Our Faith
Focusing on growing mature disciples through small groups and Bible studies that are
scripturally based
Sacrificial Service
Serving our neighbors and our world and cultivating an understanding of how God calls
ALL persons to ministry as an outward expression of an inward change
Generous Giving
Giving from all with which God has blessed us
Faith at Home
Equipping families to live principles of faith in our homes
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St Marks Core Beliefs
We believe the identity of God as one living and true God, everlasting and without end,
of infinite power, revealed to us in the Trinity, three persons of one substance—the
Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost.
We believe in Jesus Christ, the Son of God, His teachings, His sacrifice on the cross,
which secures our salvation and in His resurrection that reveals God’s excelling love for
the world
We believe the Bible as the Word of God written by people under the inspiring work of
the Holy Spirit
We believe in worship as a practice that honors God and expresses our love and
devotion to God by the utilization of diverse talents
We believe in prayer for it affirms our dependence on God and draws us individually
and collectively closer to God.
We believe all people as being wonderfully created by God and we desire to help them
understand the everlasting love of God
We believe in disciple-making as spiritual growth and maturity under the direction of the
Holy Spirit equipping every believer for the ministry of Christ in transforming the world
We believe in mission and good works, global and local, as an expression of God’s love
in our lives and as an extension of God’s love to the world around us
We believe the celebration of Baptism as an outward sign of inclusion into the body of
Christ and an expression of God’s mighty act of salvation
We believe in the celebration of Holy Communion and the practice of an “open-table”
inviting all people seeking a deeper relationship with God through Christ
We believe in the church, universal and local, and understand its existence to fulfill the
coming of God’s Kingdom
St Marks Mission Statement
To make disciples of Jesus Christ who are…
Loving God with our whole being
Loving one another as Jesus has loved us
Loving the world as God so Loves the world
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