Program Planning Council

The Program Planning Council (PPC) at UUCB designs and offers services of creative and participatory celebration and worship. Rooted in tradition but free to innovate, PPC members promote community and spiritual growth, weaving personal insight from the heart together with intellectual content for the mind. With the minister, who is always a standing and active member of the council, PPC continues to develop our shared understanding of the purpose and form of Sunday services and the annual calendar of themes and celebrations. PPC attends to all the details of each Sunday worship service.

The Council welcomes ideas for Sunday services. If you have an idea for a Sunday service — a topic, a speaker, or a program — please talk to a PPC member. If you would like to participate in another way at a Sunday service, read about the various opportunities to participate in Sunday services.

Chair's Responsibilities at Meetings

* Set the PPC meeting agenda (based on discussions with PPC members at the previous meeting)
* Reminds members about meetings and task responsibilities
* Lead PPC meetings
* Provide opening words
* Maintain long term calendar for the council
* Spearhead development of the PPC budget; attend Finance Council meetings
* Monitor money spent
* Ensure that each PPC member has a PPC notebook

Chair's Responsibilities for Programs

* Liaison with the office manager, the minister and coordinators
* Follow-up to be sure weekly services are on track (especially when the minister is gone)
* Follow-up to be sure that the order of service is complete and turned in to the office manager for printing by Wednesday at 5 p.m., especially when the minister is gone
* Coordinate schedules for Sharing the Journey with the Journeys' coordinator
* Ensures that information about upcoming services gets into the newsletter on time (newsletter deadline: fifteenth of the month)
* Ensure that the notice about each Sunday's service gets into the newspapers (especially when the minister is gone)
* Be sure coordinators have PPC notebooks with job descriptions and order of service timeline

PPC Members' Responsibilities

These tasks are shared or rotated among PPC members:

* Coordinate with the Music Committee
* Coordinate schedules for Sharing the Journey with the Journeys' coordinator
* Ensure that press releases for special events and special speakers get done (coordinators give these to the office manager)
* Write articles for the newsletter on elements of the service and participant roles