Getting Started Email to Colleagues

Just some easy language to adopt, helping you initiate things

One of the hardest part of faith250 is going to be logistics. That might be the holiest way we serve democracy this year, simply by doing logistics. Calendars, doodle polls, scheduling, oh my!

I’m facing the same hurdles with my local cluster so I thought I’d share the email I sent to my colleagues for your adaptation. Please note, the recipients of this email are all people who heard me either speak about faith250 at our regular monthly interfaith breakfast, or people I called.

Friends,

I hope you are all doing well. I am writing to solidify our local faith250 cluster and help us start the process of finding dates to meet.

Introductions are in order. Included in this group are those who have verbally or electronically shared an interest in creating a local cluster for this program.

[list names and institutions here]

I think this is the right number of congregations for us to have a reasonable group size when we gather our communities. However we may add 2 more churches, both on the fence at the moment.

As for scheduling, the bigger hurdle will be reserving dates on our congregational calendars. To that end I took the liberty and privilege at looking out to the Winter/Spring and finding some dates. For us at NVHC Thursday nights are the freest for something like this, but that may not be true for everyone. How do these dates look for your congregational calendars? I’m envisioning some Spaghetti Dinners, 6:00-8:00 PM kind of thing.

1/22, 2/12, 4/16, 5/28

Please be honest if these won’t work and we will adjust.

Then we need to find some dates for all of us clerics to meet and start the conversations.

Please fill out this [doodle poll] so we can find a date for our first meeting. Hopefully one of these will work to get us going.

Thanks and Shabbat Shalom,

Michael