United Congregational Church of Southern Africa
Executive Committee Meeting
Maryland Educational Centre, Hanover Park, Cape Town
19^th to 22^nd March 2007

1.         Introduction:

The UCCSA is going through some interesting times through which we are looking for ways of coming alive through the Vision Plan and the guidance of the Holy Spirit.  This process requires all of us to find ways through which we can be responsive to the spirit.  Like the seven Churches of Asia Minor the Spirit is challenging and speaking to us, and it is for us to allow the Holy Spirit to interpenetrate, mould and direct us.   Our meetings should be opportunities for listening to the Spirit and the Mind of Christ rather than just go through agenda items.   We have to create a new spirituality of meetings, which will decrease the pace of the meetings and spend more time in prayer than just rush through the business.  The last executive committee meeting took at bold step in deciding to explore the possibilities of adopting the ‘Kgotla Consensus Model' of conducting meetings.  This way we will move away from the culture of having officious and at times adversarial meetings to that of seeking the mind of Christ.