Marks of Fruitfulness
Purpose
The North Texas Conference strives to cultivate clergy fruitfulness. From the moment of initially discerning one’s call that extends beyond the status of retirement, clergy are encouraged to keep growing and maturing by God's grace. The CLD in conversation with the Board of Ordained Ministry and the Board of Laity has identified three formative arenas of fruitfulness: Living Discipleship Fruitfulness, Leading Congregational Fruitfulness, and Developing Missional Fruitfulness.
These three arenas are further lived out in twenty skills and competencies necessary for the church's mission of kerygma (proclamation), koinonia (fellowship) and diakonia (service). These twenty identifiable and measurable skills and competencies informs an ongoing process and system for evaluation, feedback, resourcing and life-long learning. The purpose of ongoing evaluation and feedback "is not to prove but to improve." "Evaluation can be considered an ongoing process that strengthens our ministry, giving us the opportunity to reflect periodically on how well we are fulfilling our commitments to Christ, the church, and one another."
The "Marks of Fruitfulness" is the North Texas Conference's online system for providing evaluative tools, feedback, mentoring and coaching resources, and improving clergy fruitfulness as disciples, as leaders of congregations, and as missional developers in the community and world.
Marks of Fruitfulness (Word Document)
Marks of Fruitfulness Evaluation (PDF)
Process
The evaluation process for the North Texas Conference is available for completion between November 1 – December 15. All appointed clergy and their staff parish (SPRC/PPRC) committees should log into the system with the username and password previously provided via email. All evaluations should be completed no later than December 15.
If you have general questions, please contact your District Office or email ntcmof@ntcumc.org.
General Information
System Requirements: Microsoft Silverlight is required for the evaluations and some of the other features of the Marks of Fruitfulness system.
Marks of Fruitfulness Evaluation Website
If username or password assistance is needed, please contact your District Office or email ntcmof@ntcumc.org.
Completing the Evaluation:
- Review the Marks of Fruitfulness Description document to become familiar with the skills and competencies that will be evaluated.
- To maximize your time, it may be helpful to use the above mentioned document to capture and save comments. Copy and Paste (using Ctrl-V) into Marks of Fruitfulness.
- When beginning work on the evaluation, please allocate 20-25 minutes to complete. Unfortunately, at this time you are unable to begin and save it to come back at another time. Once you begin, you must complete it in one sitting and submit it. If not, all the information will be lost. (this is something that has been addressed with the developer)
- Each "mark" will require a comment that supports your rating. This is a free form, so add any information that will be supportive. If the "mark" has not been demonstrated, please select "not observed."
Printing the Evaluation:
Self/Team Reviews are now viewable and printable after they are submitted.
- Under the Evaluations tab, select “My Review”
- View/Print any type of review that they have submitted (Self or Team);
- Select the View button and the form will appear;
- Select Print (top right) to generate the form for printing.
