Web Site - We are currently developing the content for the Computer Ministry link off the main church home page www.villagepres.org. This will provide information to members within the congregation and in the community to explain the offerings we have available. This web site will help us satisfy the request for information from interested people which we receive on a periodic basis.
We are able to duplicate and recreate Judy Kingdom.com class room at the Outreach Center thus minimizing the exposure to Judy's ongoing Sunday school classes.. We have the computers from Pete Sumey and are fixing these up at the Outreach Center. These computers were originally used within the church offices and replaced by Pete this summer. The reason we choose to recycle the church's computers was to upgrade Judy's lab with faster computers and to keep our replacement costs down.
Grandview Park Presbyterian Church - Bill Mullarkey is heading up this project at the Grandview Presbyterian Church Computer lab . Rick Behrens is the minister. This church as a computer lab with 10 volunteers from their congregation hosting a Wednesday night fellowship for neighborhood children and teenagers. We are helping them fix the problems with their computers. Bill and Ken Smith have visited this church, determined a list of problems with these computers, resolved all the software problems, and repairing one computer with others in the ministry by using parts from our inventory of donated computers.Rick Behrens would like to get this lab connected to the internet. We are working on the plan as a Phase 2 project to satisfy his request.
Front Porch Alliance - Alice Carrot and I have discussed how our two ministries can best help one another. There are projects within the three elementary schools and with the Shalom Baptist Church computer lab. She is to go into the 2002 strategic planning session with the other leaders of the Front Porch Alliance to identify before the end of the year to prioritize the projects for next year. The computer ministry will be ready by January, 2002 to execute on these projects.Submitted by Tony Liu
I would like to share some key dates for the next few weeks. We will be meeting tomorrow, Tuesday, 12/18/01 at 7:00 for the last time this year. It is time to take a break and enjoy the Holidays. We will reconvene on Tuesday, 1/8/02. This is a key date since it will be the Tuesday before the Minute for Mission Sunday, 1/13/01. I would like to finalize the logistics for that Sunday on Tuesday, 1/8/02 such as having the membership staff the Ministry Table in Friendship Hall after each service, having the equipment with the Powerpoint presentation complete, making sure enough flyers are available amongst other things.
We have gotten a generous donation from Bob Sperry who is a Senior Officer at Hillcrest Bank He and his wife sing in the VC Choir. I need volunteers to help pick up 70 computers and 60 monitors from 6 locations of Hillcreast Bank the week of 12/24/01 or 12/31/01. I will be taking off work and will be on vacation these weeks to prep the Outreach Center so we can store these computers after we pick up these computers. This means buying heavy duty shelves to store monitors, rearranging the Inventory rooms, and pick up/store the equipment. Many logistics still need to be finalized that I am working on, but I need your help. As I have mentioned before, the youngest male adult will pick up the heaviest equipment. We can discuss more tomorrow at the Ministry meeting.Submitted by Tony Liu
I am pleased to report that the goals we set when we began this ministry this past Summer have been accomplished with outstanding success. As you know, there were two goals, Organizational Skill Set and Inventory. The members' Organizational Skill set far exceed my expectations and they are ready to perform the will of the Church. The Inventory goal is satisfied by Bob Sperry's Hillcrest Bank donation of 70 computers and 60 monitors.
The Goals for 2002 is to perform six one-on-many Computer Ministry Offerings modeled after the Grandview Park Presbyterian Church Tutoring project. We plan to use the Inventory from the Hillcreast Bank donation, the funding from Missions Ministry, and the Organization Skill set of the members to roll out a one-on-many offering every two months.I have been enlightened on how the Computer Ministry will interface with Adult Ministry (Pat Jackard), Missions Ministry (Roxy Burn), Children's Ministry (Judy Cooper) and the Front Porch Alliance (Alice Carrot). I believe a long-lasting friendship and relationship will developed amongst these ministries at Village Church next year. The Members of the Computer Ministry will continue to be a contributing family member to the other Ministries of Village Church.
The Grandview Park Presbyterian Church project is complete. We have competed the tasks related to computer problems in Martha's Tutoring program at Grandview Park. We were able to establish a computer network with access to the internet for her Tutoring program. We have audited her Microsoft Licenses for compliance and funded what was necessary. Ken Smith is our Ministry friend to Martha at Grandview Park. Martha's Tutoring Program is supported by 10 Tutors from the Grandview Park congregation of 60 people. The goal of this Tutoring program is to get the kids off the streets and help them with their school work/homework every Wednesday night. Martha's Tutoring program is a non-profit organization helping the community. The Computer Ministry has evolved as the technical support organization for these non-profit community programs. We plan to use this model with the six projects in 2002.The One-on-One offerings continue to satisfy the students from third world countries attending the Baptist Seminary in KCK. We have delivered six computers to the 2001 Spring and Fall students. These computers were delivered to the best candidates presented. For example, when Anthony, an ordained ministry from Kenya came to American to study at the Baptist Seminary, his congregation asked him to return with a computer. The Computer Ministry delivered Anthony's computer this fall.
We have started a new project called "Fish". As I remember, when you teach someone to fish, they learn how to feed themselves for the rest of their lives. The objective of project "Fish" is to develop a deliverable of the Computer Ministry Best Practice methodology. This deliverable is intended to replicate the Computer Ministry's methodology in other churches or non-profit organizations. Project "Fish" will be done in conjunction with Stephen Gooding, CFA Gooding Partners who wants to develop a ministry fashioned like the Computer Ministry in conjunction with the KC Kawanis. The outcome of this joint project with Stephen has my interest.Travis Skare and Rick Housh will head up the "Adult" one-on-many project. The objective of this offering is to establish a internet based network of computers using free software. The target audience is an adult wanting to use a computer network in a shared environment much like a Community Work Center. The anticipated software cost of this offering should be close to zero. Using donated hardware, we anticipate the hardware and software cost to be close to zero for this offering. With guidance from the Missions Ministry, we would like to place this offering with the best candidate presented.
I am proud of Travis Skare's contribution to the Kingdom.COM project. He is a High School Senior with a God given talent for computers that makes him invaluable to the Computer Ministry. He headed up Judy Cooper's Kingdom.COM Computer upgrade project done this fall/winter. The Village Church congregation will be able to see his work and the work of other members of the Computer Ministry's efforts by January 13, 2002 in the Kingdom.COM room within the education wing.Submitted by Tony Liu