The Operational Elder Team
The Operational Elder Team, commonly known as OET, is made up of both staff and lay elders who provide organizational oversight by:
- Ensuring and approving budgets, financial decisions and strategies are aligned with the church’s mission, philosophies, and purposes
- Assuring that we’re maintaining proper standards for organizational management
- Conducting annual reviews and setting compensation for our top leaders
- Advising for the organization. This might include things like operational policies, financial strategies, legal issues, major asset purchases, risk, etc.
- Overseeing the Code of Conduct and Escalation Process
- And more
The team meets monthly to discuss topics that are vitally important for our organization to be able to sustain and support great ministry through our church. This team’s involvement consistently influences our decisions in a positive way. We’re grateful to our Op Elder Team for all that they do!
Our current Op Elder Team members are:
- Bob Gutekunst, Michael French, Matt Watson, and Corey Wagner (non-staff)
- James Paquette and Dave Barrett (staff)