Organising Yourselves

• Set up a Twinning Sub-Committee
  • The sub-committee should be accountable to the Church Council
  • The programme should form an integral part of the church's annual programme
  • The sub-committee should have its own budget within the church's annual budget
  • It should have a Co-ordinator

• The Co-ordinator should not be the minister! Ministers have been known to take the link with them when they leave, but it is the Church that's twinned!
  
  The Co-ordinator
  • chairs meetings and delegates tasks
  • does not do all the work!
  • makes sure that
    
    1. arrangements for a visit are completed - names, money, transport, insurance,...
    2. the programme is planned - who's doing what and by when, what preparations are needed?
    3. the theme is understood - this might be the minister's main contribution
    4. the review is planned - maybe form a small review group
    5. the report is prepared - an editorial group can collect pictures, articles, stories, etc.
    6. the report is circulated - the editorial group sends it to the local paper and radio/TV stations