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 ====Points Currently Lost====
-(just kind of thinking out loud here)
+  * Probably the most important discussion item is **we need boundaries around church resources**.
+  * Probably the most important policy items are **boundaries around church resources**.
+    * Emerson Players is self-funded. That's great; could that include moving stuff off-site if it's just being stored for months on end? It's more than just needing the space. It's about the space being **dedicated** to something.
+    * Volunteer effort is not allocated in any way. It's a game of Hungry Hungry Hippos. That's not okay; the church needs to be in control of its own priorities.
+  * A timeline, or an order of operations, remains unaddressed as a problem. Some items have explicit interdependencies listed but it needs to be more fleshed out. These initiatives support each other and that is getting lost.
+  * Emerson needs some work before it's ready to evangelize about itself
+  * We don't do post-mortems and we need to start doing them for most everything
+  * If we don't have a worship calendar that commits us to specific services for each of the faith traditions we're supposed to represent, we should make one.
+  * Rather than trying to **grow** the worship **committee**, **build** a worship **ministry**.
+    * Growing the committee a person at a time is likely to continue failing. We need to train a batch of people on our workflow and get good at it together, so we've got people in all parts of the church who can get a service across the finish line.
+    * The word "committee" has a connotation. "Ministry" reminds us that worship is a core mission of the church.
+    * The word "team" also gets used in places; I'd rather use "team" to describe a group responsible for a given service.
+  * We need to grapple with the bougie, the out-of-touch, the icky...
+I have been trying to avoid this for months, but I can't see any way around it: Volunteer effort and assignments need to be managed centrally.
+That doesn't mean people can't have initiative and start their own things, but... (just kind of thinking out loud here)
 If the rule is, everybody has at most two callings, and the first one has to be something the church needs, and it doesn't have to be something the person wants to do. The "callings people want" are secondary callings. Doing the work of the church has to be the priority.