 |
|
Church Council Meeting Minutes - DRAFT
Shepherd of the Mountains Lutheran Church, Park City, Utah
January 14, 2008
A meeting of the Shepherd of the Mountains Church Council was held on January 14, 2008 at Shepherd of the Mountains Lutheran Church. The president, Ron Nehring was present. A quorum was present and the meeting was called to order at 6:40. Pastor Peter opened in prayer. The minutes of the previous meeting were approved with corrections from Bill Dwyer.
1. Reports
a. Interim Pastor’s Report – see the attached report. Advent was busy but is now complete. The Techno worship went well and Pastor Peter felt there was more energy the 2nd night, and there were a lot more youth also. Ash Wednesday is Feb 6th, so there is not much time to plan. Because of the busy schedule this creates for Peter, Bill has suggested moving Men’s Bible Study to Wednesday night during lent so Pastor Peter will have Tuesday nights free. We also decided to move our Council meeting to Sunday nights at 7:00 after the evening worship during lent.[WD1]
b. Treasurer report - See attached report. December was a banner month. We currently are about $9,000 above where we began the year in uncommitted funds. Jan mentioned that we doubled our use of coffee in December over what we normally use. Loren brought up that we didn’t use our available $1,400 from Thrivent so we need to make sure we use it next year.
2. Acknowledgement of Committee Reports [WD2] – Listed committees have attached reports unless noted otherwise.[WD3]
a. Evangelism
b. Fellowship
c. Education – Currently there have been no elementary aged students attending evening worship except for the star gazing night. Therefore, there will only be adult Bible Study, catechism and high school education offered until it there is a need for elementary age education. Jan will be discussing this with the education committee at their next meeting on January 31st.
d. Nominating Committee – The following positions will be filled by nominating committee: President or Vice President, Education, Fellowship, Social Ministry, Stewardship, and Worship. It was also discussed that while the constitution suggests they nominate 2 people to go to Synod Assembly who are subsequently elected by the congregation, we’ve gotten along fine with alternate processes for 15 years, and can probably manage for another year.
e. Worship Committee - They are trying to reclaim ownership for the scheduling of Worship volunteers and get that working properly again. Easter AM services will be 7:00, 9:00, & 11:00. The PM service will be 6:15.
Jan made some comments on the evening service. She feels like the evening service is dividing our congregation right now with many who would attend in the morning coming in the evening. She did feel the techno service appealed to the youth and was different enough that it might reach a different audience.
f. Stewardship
g. Property – There was no report, but several items to discuss:
§ A locksmith was called and he believes he has fixed the front door lock for good.
§ A company will submit a bid to put up gutters. Also, the remaining two of our three heat tapes were finally turned on, so that should help with the large ice dams that have been forming. Rick was on the roof today getting off the snow.
§ After much discussion on the cleaning schedule and people who didn’t show up to clean the following was decided. Karen will be asked to gets bids on cleaning the church. Val will also submit her own bid to clean. We will then look at paying to have the church cleaned instead of assigning the weekly task to member families.
3. Executive Committee Report – was unable to meet this month, so therefore no report
4. Unfinished Business
a. Consideration of Resolution concerning pastor’s housing allowance – See attached resolution. Motion made by Jim, seconded by Loren. Passed unanimously.
b. Choir Director Update – The next 2 weeks Tanya Taylor will lead choir practice on Thursday, and singing at Sunday services.
c. Worship Times – Our worship times need to be updated at the different hotels. Executive Committee will look at this.
d. Office Manager job description and hours – Val feels that we should not have cut the hours. Bill explained that we also cut the job description by a larger percent than the hours that we cut, so she should be able to accomplish what has been asked. We did discuss having a volunteer answer the phone when nobody is in the office.
e. Bishop Bjornborg visit – He will visit on Feb 10. We will have our 2nd supper fellowship activity on Saturday night, Feb 9.
f. Public Service Matters – Sally did a wonderful job with Val’s 60th birthday.
5. New Business, (none).
6. Adjourn – 8:27 p.m.
In Attendance:
Ron Nehring
J.J. Ehlers
Bill Dwyer
Jim Hier
Loren Mercer
Sally Rajamaki
Pastor Peter VanHook
Jan Robertson
Alison Vallejo
Val Thurnell
Absent:
Rick Vipond
Vacant Council Positions:
Worship Committee
Stewardship Committee
[WD1]I guess I thought we were just committing to the February meeting at this point, but this is ok with me too.
[WD2]What about Youth and Social Ministries?
[WD3]This doesn’t make sense. I didn’t get a report from fellowship, evangelism or Stewardship, but you haven’t “otherwise noted”.
| Calendar | Location | Ministries | Youth | Staff | Sermons |