NFM
Committee Questionnaire
(This completed form will be held in confidence and used by the
Nominating Committee only.)
Please
read and respond to our tongue-in-cheek questionnaire. This will help the
Nominating Committee get to know our Meeting members better.
P.S. We love
all our committees and every single member on them! And you all know that
we need you!
Please
circle whichever Committee you might consider working on (if you had the time).
1. Auditing:
Need to be able to stay awake during conversations
about disbursements and financial
data, members must enjoy the creativity involved
in balancing checkbooks, be good at finding receipts under the controller's sofa and ferreting out
secret trips to exotic locales.
2.
Building and Grounds:
Here’s your chance to help oversee and manage a
property that is bigger, older and more valuable than anything you’ll actually ever
own.
3.
Care and Counsel:
So many opportunities to be nice and helpful in a real
hands-on way. If you’re a real people person, this may be the committee for
you.
4.
Conference Grant:
Do you want to send certain meeting members out of
town? Do you have anyone special in
mind?
5. Financial
Oversight:
Get a chance to argue with someone other than your
spouse about how to spend money. Also
remind everyone in meeting it’s time to pay the piper (a time honored way to
make friends)
6. Inreach/Outreach:
We try to interest non-Quakers in joining
the meeting, and persuade existing
members that they’re actually having too much fun to go anywhere else.
7. Library:
People who really like to read and share their love of
books and information with others.
8. Newsletter:
You’ll have an editor, a printer, a deadline (just
like a real newspaper) We’ll even let you shout, “Stop the Presses!” (If it
makes you feel good).
9.
Interested
in Friends' education and the antics of 310 elementary school-age children? Here
it is helpful to be familiar with Quaker process
and the workings of non-profit boards. Candidates
go through an interview and
approval process by the NFS Nominating Committee.
10. Nominating:
It’s kinda like being a
telephone solicitor, only they know you, so they can’t hang up right away. Actually, it gives you a chance to get to
know people’s talents and interests. Matchmaker.com?
11. Peace
and Service:
Peace testimony, conscientious objection, societal
problems and solutions, all the important stuff that made you want to become a
Quaker in the first place.
12.
Children’s Religious Education:
Teaching experience helpful but not required. Must like children, laughing, teaching and
fun.
13. Adult
Religious Education:
Do you dream of becoming an Events Organizer? Never the same thing twice, always something
new. What an interesting Committee to be
on!
14.
Makes you feel good to help kids in need.
15. Technology
and Information Management:
Two words: computer nerd (Did we mention, we love computer nerds?)
16.
Worship and Ministry:
Have you been disillusioned
with religion at anytime in your life? Do you like talking and thinking about
spiritual matters? Do you like Meeting for Worship and things in that vein?
Thanks for
hanging in so far. There’s just a little more to go!
Please circle whichever interests and talents you
would consider sharing with the meeting (if you had the time)
Computer
Creative writing
Financial
Creative bookkeeping
Gardening Teaching children
Graphic
Arts
Babysitting
Performance
Arts Public
Speaking
Cooking
Journalism
Talking
with New People Baking Cookies
Arguing
with old people Eating
Cookies
Organizing
events Any
other stuff:___________________
Playing
a musical instrument
Sharing
a love of books
A Great big
Thanks from the Nominating Committee.
Well Done!
Name:
Email:
Preferred Phone Number:
For more information on each committee, see the
Committee Handbook on the Meeting website.