Queensland Lutheran Giving seeks board members

Seeking board members, Queensland Lutheran Giving

Dear Saints,

I bring to your attention a need in our church, and I seek your commitment to pray into this need please.

Queensland Lutheran Giving (QLG) needs up to five more board members. QLG provides support to vulnerable people in times of need, but it also has other opportunities that need to be developed.

QLG is a Public Ancillary Fund and is a registered Charity (Not-For-Profit (NFP)), Deductible Gift Recipient (DGR), and registered with the ACNC, with the LCAQD as the sole member (making it wholly owned by the LCAQD).  We have several trusts set up under QLG with the option of adding more as the need arises.

The current directors have a plan to assist every congregation of the LCAQD to be able to help people in need in their own community, speaking directly into the LCAQD new Strategic Charter. The current QLG board needs support to develop QLG’s capacity to achieve this goal.

To this end we are asking you, the members of the LCAQD, to:

1. Pray for the Directors of QLG and
2. Consider joining the QLG Board and/or tapping someone on the shoulder who you think fits the profile of person we are looking for to become a Director.

Following are the skills and experience mix we seek.  Most people will not have all these skills and experience, but we seek a collective balance of these characteristics across the membership of the Board, as a balanced committee requires diverse technical and soft skills to respond to their responsibilities. So, if you have some of these skills and or experience, please nominate yourself (form here).

The ideal skills mix include:

• Legal qualifications: to help ensure our plans comply with our legal obligations
• Project management – we will need to define, develop, and implement several projects to enable the vision of the current board.  Having someone with project management skills would be helpful
• Marketing and communications including:
  • Social media engagement and management
  • Web site/page development
  • Marketing experience
    • PR
    • Advertisements
• Knowledge of current challenges that our congregations face in relation to community need
• Attention to detail: Precision in considering and drafting documents that avoid ambiguity.
• Humble demeanour: Ability to engage in robust conversations while remaining humble and respectful.
• Previous Board or Committee Service: Familiarity with how boards/councils function and the practical impact of governing documents’ ‘rules’ on daily operations.

The ideal candidate should be able to dedicate several hours a week to different projects needing to be developed and implemented.

If you want to talk to someone, please call 07 3511 4000, follow the prompts for the Office of the Bishop and District, and ask for the D.E.O (Trev).

If you know someone who could help this ministry of our Lord, please encourage them to consider nominating for the QLG Board.  If you’ve never been on a Board or Committee, please don’t be concerned, we have good mentors who can gently guide and lead you.

Blessings

Trevor Ruthenberg
District Executive Officer at Lutheran Church of Australia, Queensland District
Secretary at LCAQD Nominations and Appointments Committee
Secretary at Queensland Lutheran Giving

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