Prince of Peace is almost one year in to the PBG journey now, so it's time to elect some new members to our Board of Directors.
We will have three vacancies come June 1st. The biggest question we've been wrestling with is, how many people do we put on the ballot? Three? Five? Ten? Everyone who gets nominated by the congregation?
It's a tough decision with no clear right or wrong answer.
On the one hand, putting only three names on the ballot doesn't feel quite right. A certain amount of choice does give the voting members of the church a more significant role to play. If we only give them three names for three positions, why even have an election at all?
On the other hand, too many names on the ballot brings challenges also. Too many choices on the ballot practically ensures that the congregation will not be well informed about who they're voting for. Who has time to get to know the qualifications of twenty candidates? It also means that some will be "winners" and others will be "losers" in the election. Hard to avoid hurt feelings in that scenario!
We decided to balance these concerns and go with a ballot of five, from which we'll elect three. We've published bios of all five candidates and produced a ten-minute video about the candidates that we're showing at the voters' meeting, right before the election takes place.
What does your congregation do?
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