Council Meeting 4/9/08 Minutes (Unreviewed)

 

Meeting was called to order at 7pm by President Bob Dellorfano.

 

Present: Bob Dellorfano, Joan Talbert, Pastor Rust, Ed Blakelock, Egon Lippert, Pete Schultz, Joe Childers, Ralph Bitely, Gloria Kneen, Bonnie Roach, Mike Corriher, Don Michaels, Karen Ellenberger.  Absent: Bob Morrissey, Lorrie Hagy (represented by Karen Ellenberger)

 

Minutes (March): Motion made to accept March Minutes by Joan Talbert, 2nd by Ralph Bitely. Carried.

No Special Guests.

 

Pastor’s Report- *Wkend Service attendance in March averaged 282. Easter services attended by 438. *Leslie Albrecht will be going on a June Mission trip to Nicaragua. Pastor would like to take up a freewill offering to help sponsor her trip. *6 youth will be confirmed on 5/11. An oral review on day of confirmation (Statement of Faith) will be conducted during the Sunday school hour that Sunday. Pastor plans a recruiting effort for future confirmands. Starting age is 5th to 6th grade. Hospitalizations: see Report. Pastor reported on member that had recently returned to services at St Andrew. Pastor thanked the Council President and Finance Committee for looking at Church Goals for the next few years, even though there may be much disagreement on what these should be church-wide. Even shut-ins have been excited to hear what direction the church may be taking. Pastor is very excited about a VISION plan to focus on our mission. Pastor commended council for being willing to take action. There will be a Congregational Vote, for a Mission/Vision Study, on April 20th.

 

Finance Report- Ed Blakelock. Operating income is ahead by $9,386.90. Motion made, to take $500 from unassigned memorials to support Leslie’s mission trip, by Ralph Bitely, 2nd by Gloria Kneen. Motion carried. A freewill offering will be taken to support this trip on 5/4/08.

 

Personnel: Work survey of Administrative Asst has been completed by Ken McCain. He will compile and make suggestions to be presented at next council meeting. Mike will invite Ken to come to the next council meeting. An Administrative Asst Job survey (from other churches) is still being compiled and may be presented for next council meeting.

 

Evangelism: verbal report-Don Michaels. Committee has decided to meet the first Monday of each month at 10:30am. Don Michaels thanked Pastor for his sermons on Evangelism. 2 committee members will man the table in the Narthex on 4/12&13, 4/19&20, 4/26&27- for church members to sign up to distribute packets on Door Knobs in the area they sign up to cover. Discussion followed that knocking on doors and speaking with the occupants may go further in the Evangelism outreach effort.

 

Fellowship: Gloria Kneen – had no April meeting. Will have a meeting in May to cover the Confirmands’ Luncheon.

 

Property: Ralph Bitely- 2 new leaks have developed in the roof. Appear to be similar in cause as previous leak.

Property has a Job Request form located in yellow envelope across from office.

 

Stewardship: Bob Dellorfano handed out a letter from Synod outlining procedures for changing the Constitution.

 

Christian Ed: Barb Riegel. Need to order Sunday school materials for all of next year. Will use Seasons of the Spirit curriculum. Will need an extra $900 for the Christian Ed budget to purchase these materials. Motion made by Karen, 2nd by Gloria to move $1000 (from retained earnings) into line item for SS materials. Motion carried.

 

Worship &Music: Joan Talbert- see report. Letter from Deb Steady read to council and passed on to W&M. Motion made by Karen E., 2nd by Don Michaels to move $500 from retained earnings into a line item for a supply pastor. Motion carried.

 

Youth committee: see report. Karen reported on the April 25th talent show/spaghetti dinner. Tickets are on sale now from youth or committee members. $ will go into the youth fund.

 

Finance Committee: Egon Lippert reported on committee’s discussion to make Glenn Kaijala Asst Financial Secretary. Motion made to make Glenn an Asst Financial Secretary by Egon, 2nd by Ralph. Motion carried. Pete Schultz reported that the committee was unanimous in its recommendation to use

Kairos proposal for a “Vision Statement” and a “Report of Findings with Recommendations”. Funding to come from Schellhorn monies. Pete reported that Kirby Smith’s presentation did not feel right for St Andrew. He reported that Misenheimer felt we needed a Vision Process BEFORE we had a Debt Reduction Program. Bob Dellorfano will send out a letter to the congregation notifying of the April 20th congregational meeting. Pete Schultz will present the Kairos Vision program at this meeting. Motion: By Egon, 2nd by Barb :To accept the Finance Committee’s recommendation of the Kairos “Vision Statement” & “Report of Findings with Recommendations.” The funding for this will come from the monies already designated by an earlier Council Vote. Motion Carried Unanimously. Egon and Bob Morrissey will oversee the project.

 

President’s Report: see Report.

 

New Business: none

 

Unfinished Business: Council members need to review the Synod letter on constitutional changes.

 

Social Committee: Barb Riegel talked about the refuge family. Htoo Lay Dwe now has a hospital job in food service.  Being a Baptist minister, the family will be visiting Temple Baptist, to decide where they will attend in the future.

Discussion followed about a possible Asian Mission Church run by Htoo Lay Dwe here in our own church. Temple has already approached him. Barb to discuss with him on Saturday. Motion, by Karen 2nd by Joan, to let Htoo Lay Dwe know the council wants to support him as a pastor of a Mission Church here at

St. Andrew. Motion Carried.

 

Meeting was closed at 9:37 pm by Bob Dellorfano, with The Lord’s Prayer said by all.

 

Respectfully submitted,

Karen Ellenberger