Nominating Committee- striving to match your gifts to the church’s call
This group of skilled volunteers matches the skills and gifts of individuals with the needs of the Prairie to Pine Region. The church needs your gifts, skills, and experience! Please scroll down this page to see the latest opportunities, which include not only Regional Council committees, but specific task groups and our many partnerships. Click here for the latest national church opportunities, which are managed by the General Council.
Committee membership for 2021-22: Joey Dearborn, Frances Flook, Betty Kelly, Teresa Melnychuk, and Anna Stewart. For the sake of privacy, committee members’ personal emails are not shared here. Please contact the committee at p2p.nominations@gmail.com
If you’re interested in an opportunity, or would like to nominate someone else (after checking with them):
Here’s the Nominating form and a chance to share your skills and background with the committee. All information given is treated as confidential.
2021 Nominating committee report (list of all governance groups and their members)
Committee responsibilities
- Recommends persons to be appointed by Prairie to Pine Region or its Executive, to serve as members of its Executive or Committees, and if required as representatives to General Council.
- Ensures that the Region and each of its commissions, committees and task groups provides clear job descriptions, terms of reference, length of term, suggested composition/balance for their group when declaring vacancies and requesting new members.
- Informs the people of the Regional Council about the many ways to serve the ministry of the Region, and invites you to consider how your gifts, experience, and diversity can contribute to the life and work of the Region.
Nominations Updates and Opportunities
Your invitation: Regional meeting planning committee 2023
You’re invited to consider whether you or someone you know would welcome the challenge of helping plan the in-person (yes! So we pray!) Regional Council meeting, June 1-4 2023, likely in Winnipeg....
Seeking a treasurer for Prairie to Pine
Volunteers are the lifeblood of the United Church. At the regional level, various committees and task groups rely on the wisdom and God-given talents that committed individuals bring to these...
Openings: Executive and Annual Meeting 2023 planning
Your Nominations Committee has been hard at work, and so have a number of people who have expressed interest in a wide range of opportunities. Now there are two key opportunities left: the Regional...
Full list of opportunities in the Regional Council
PDF version of this letter. This letter was emailed directly to all Regional Council delegates on 11 March 2022. Greetings to all delegates to Prairie to Pine Regional Council from your Nominating...
Regional Council opportunities for the coming year opening now
Ecclesiastes 4:9-10 tells us that “Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labour: If either of them falls down, one can help the other up. But pity anyone who falls and...
Opportunities to serve the Regional Council and partners
Your Nominating Committee has a number of openings for the new year (and earlier!). These include the Annual Meeting Planning Committee; the Fred Douglas Society board; and the Nominating Committee...
Introducing your General Council 44 Commissioners and alternates
After the nominations closed, the P2P Nominating Committee met to ensure that list of proposed commissioners meets the requirements set by the General Council and where possible honors the recommend...
Nominating Committee update: here are continued needs
This opportunity is now archived, but we welcome your interest in future opportunities. Thank you to the many, many people who have said yes to letting their names stand, or who have suggested...
Nominations to the University of Winnipeg Board of Regents
This opportunity is now archived, but we welcome your interest in future opportunities. Prairie to Pine Region is eligible to name ten [10] persons to serve on the University of Winnipeg Board of...
Are you called? Summary of opportunities to serve
Download this letter as a PDF here. There are over 90 members of Prairie to Pine currently doing work for the Region and the wider church - that is, doing work on our collective behalf. We extend a...
