rmt survey test

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SECTION A: TELL US ABOUT YOURSELF

1. Please check the box for your current status, below(Required)

an active pre-retired minister expecting to retire within ten (10) years

an active pre-retired minister expecting to retire within five (5) years

a spouse of a Retiree/Pre-Retiree

a Retired minister

a widow of a deceased retired minister

Other

2. If officially retired, check the box below for your pastoral leadership role at the time of your retirement:(Required)

3. Are you attending or serving with a Free Methodist Church?(Required)

Yes

4. Describe any assigned ministry role(s) in which you have served:(Required)

5. Are you regularly involved in ministry for remuneration outside of the FMCIC?(Required)

Yes

6. Comment

7. Are you involved in non-ministry work to supplement your income?(Required)

Yes

8. Comment

SECTION B: CONNECTIONS AND INFORMATION-SHARING BY RMT

Click here to visit the Retired Ministers FMCIC webpage: fmcic.ca/retiredministers

NOTES: RMT uses emails and occasionally letter mail to communicate with our constituency. Below please rate the clarity and content of RMT’s communications :

1. Have you visited the Retired Ministers webpage during 2025?(Required)

Yes

2. Is information clearly presented?(Required)

3. Is the content usually helpful & interesting?(Required)

4. Check the box(es) below to indicate your most preferred means for RMT to communicate with you(Required)

Connectional gatherings

Over the past several years, RMT has arranged face-to-face events for retired ministers, spouses and widows, held mostly at FMC campgrounds and General Conference.

5. Do you recall receiving RMT’s messages about such gatherings?(Required)

Yes

6. If you have not attended any such gathering, kindly indicate the main reason(s) below:(Required)

7. In the future, are you interested in meeting with other retired ministers by means of:(Required)

Webinars online via Zoom

RMT has arranged and promoted the following webinars via Zoom – Five Most Common Mistakes in Wills; Grief and Mourning; Navigating your Finances in later Years; Medical Assistance n Dying (MAID); Uncommon Retirement (with author Jeff Haanen); Setting Boundaries with Adult Children. The three webinar titles above in BLUE can be accessed by clicking on them, or throught the RMT webpage: fmcic.ca/retiredministers
These videos can be watched at your convenience- please do so!

8. Do you recall attending live on Zoom or watching any of these webinars live on the above link?(Required)

Yes

9. Please indicate which webinars were personally helpful / beneficial for you?

10. Was there a particular reason(s) you did not join any of these webinars?

11. In 2025 RMT emailed to you a copy of a book by Jeff Haanen, “An Uncommon Guide to Retirement”. Did you find this book helpful?

Your Ministry Stories

We now are equipped to video record the ministry stories of retired ministers. Several have already been recorded, and the FMCIC has created a Vimeo showcase that contains all the videos that have been published to date. You can access it through this link: vimeo.com/showcase/11938791 Going forward we’d love to similarly cover every retired minister, as agreeable.

12. Do you have a ministry story you’re willing to share?

Yes

13. Are you willing to provide a story by:

Video Interview

In Writing

SECTION C: ADVOCACY

In 2025, with some encouragement by RMT, the denomination undertook a review of the long-standing policy that a retiring minister and spouse are to separate themselves from their ending congregation for a minimum of six (6) months after a new permanent pastor is installed. Certain aspects of the policy have been amended this year– see page 9 of the Church Transitions Handbook here: Church Transitions Handbook

1. What is your view of the changes to the amended policy?

2. Notes on Questions A to H

RMT has identified a number of specific issues or challenges which retirees or pre-retirees may experience, as itemized in (a) to (h) below. RMT is already in constructive discussions and advocacy with denominational leaders about remedial options.RMT wishes to learn the importance of each issue to you personally. For each item below, select a number between “1” (very low importance to you) and “5” (high importance to you). N/A means not applicable or no answer.

(A) How important is it to you for RMT to seek to establish volunteer positions of Regional Retired Minister Chaplains, each assigned to a specific geographic region, to provide spiritual care and emotional support to retired ministers and their families, and a consistent pastoral presence for them?(Required)

(A.1) Would YOU be open to contacts by such a Chaplain for care and prayer?

Yes

(A.2) RMT is recruiting for these positions of Retired Minister Chaplains. Would you possibly consider serving in this capacity and like to read the job description?(Required)

Yes

(B) How important is it to you for RMT to continue to encourage the denomination to arrange for qualifying retirees to be eligible for medical insurance which (for a monthly fee) covers a portion of selected expenses that are not covered by your provincial Healthcare plan(Required)

(C) How important is it to you for RMT to continue to encourage the denomination to prepare a “Planning for Retirement Handbook” that covers a broad range of measures which an active minister and spouse need to consider and act on during their final years before retirement?(Required)

(D) How important is it to you for RMT to encourage the denomination to give to retirees free or subsidized access to the financial planning services of the advisory firm “More Than Enough”, as is already given annually to a limited number of active pastors?

(E) Canada Life is the pension provider for ministerial retirees of FMCIC. How important is it to you for RMT / FMCIC to ensure that Canada Life provides to each pre-retiree, at least six months before their retirement date, a statement of their probable level of pension upon retiring?(Required)

(F) How important is it to you for RMT / FMCIC to encourage Canada Life to offer to pre-retirees at least annually an online orientation session on “How to Prepare for and Live in Retirement” including key pension decisions which retirees need to make before or upon retiring?

(G) How important is it to you for RMT / FMCIC to encourage Canada Life to assign to a soon-to-retire pastor one of their representatives with whom the pastor can ask to speak whenever calling with a question?(Required)

(H) How important is it to you for RMT to encourage the denomination to Invite retirees to attend, as able, the regional pastors’ retreats and also to underwrite the retirees’ expenses to attend these gatherings and General Conference?(Required)

3. In your opinion, which TWO of the above eight matters (A to H) should have the greatest priority for advocacy by the RMT?(Required)

4. If you have any other questions or comments, please respond below.

SECTION A: TELL US ABOUT YOURSELF

SECTION B: CONNECTIONS AND INFORMATION-SHARING BY RMT

Connectional gatherings

Webinars online via Zoom

Your Ministry Stories

SECTION C: ADVOCACY

2. Notes on Questions A to H

Who We Are

Quick Links

Ministry Areas

Events

Resources