Committee Meetings - March

Last week was a busy week of meetings. The Lord is at work at Maranatha, and it can be seen clearly in the advancement of the ministry from the Board's perspective.

Finance - we have found a consultant that we are going to recommend to the Board for evaluating our preschool's effectiveness and future. As I mentioned in previous posts, the preschool is a key piece to our school from two main vantage points: 1) it is a primary gate to attract new families to Maranatha and 2) it serves as an essential profit generator to fund operations of the K-12 schools. So this consultant, if confirmed by the Board, will be looking at how we are perceived in the community, the strength of our programs and what we can do to better market our school among other things. Hopefully we will have items we can tackle even before the new school year starts.

Facilities - we reviewed all of the work that has occurred this year to maintain and upgrade our facilities. We then reviewed plans for the upcoming months which includes building the monument sign at the North Campus and some additional signage on the west end of the North Campus. Finally, we discussed the position of the Committee on future growth plans for our facilities that we will present to the Board this Thursday. I will share the results of the Board discussion in a later post.

Planning - reviewed the input we received from the 5 focus groups concerning succession planning for the superintendent. We received invaluable insight and gained the advantage of multiple perspectives on how this position affects the school. In the next step of preparation, we will be massaging all of that information into working documents that will help in the transition process. A reminder, there has been no announcement that Dr Daugherty is retiring, the Committee and the Board are just being proactive in planning for this momentous event when it does occur.

Development - this committee is meeting this Thursday and will tackle some important topics such as specific plans to grow our school, an evaluation of a consultant firm that could help us in our development efforts and get some updates on the effectiveness of our current development efforts.

Please pray for wisdom, unity and discernment for our Board as we discuss and decide on these important topics.