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January 23, 2003
| Each January, Church Council sponsors an All
Committee Night.
Incoming and outgoing members of the various church committees assemble
to discuss the aspects of their committee as a way to introduce the
newer
members as to what their committee does and how it works.
Also, each committee names a Chairperson, Secretary and a Representative to the Council. Lastly, each committee decides when they will meet. |
 Mission Ministries Team |
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| After meeting in small groups, all get back together to close out All Committee portion and move on to a church council meeting. Newly appointed Council Reps attend and report out their committee information. Remaining committee members are then free to leave. | |||||
 Trustee's |
 Buildings and Grounds Committee |
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 Christian Education Committee |
 Decaons |
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Council Minutes 1/23/03 Pastor Jim Melhorn called the meeting to order at 7:00pm (New Hampshire time) with a scripture reading and prayer. Following his words of welcome, all participants were asked to introduce themselves. All officers and committee members were invited to attend the service of dedication of church leaders on 1/26/03. Committees were asked to meeting to review their goals for the upcoming year, to discuss the process they will follow to do that work, to elect a chairman, council representative and secretary, and to establish their meeting schedule. Jim expressed his willingness to work with committees and attend their meetings at their request. Don Umlauf also extended a welcome to the committee members and invited the council representatives to attend a council meeting immediately following the all-committee meeting. Following the closing prayer by Pastor Jim, the all-committee meeting adjourned at 8:00pm. Chairman Don Umlauf called the council meeting to order at 8:15pm. The minutes of the annual meeting were approved
with one correction.
Written minutes from the deacons and membership committees were
accepted
as presented. Council reviewed procedures for
submitting committee
reports and meeting dates to the secretary for inclusion in the
bulletin
and Deaconer. Treasurer Jane Hannon reviewed procedures
committees
should follow for submitting bills for payment. Committees
are asked
to e-mail copies of minutes, meeting dates, etc. to Steve Henrikson so
they can be included on the church’s web site. Written copies
of the guidelines
were made available. The collector’s report was
accepted as presented.
The trustees will appoint an interim collector until the position is
formally
filled. 14% of the pledged amounts were collected in
December.
100.4% of the pledges for 2002 were collected.
The meeting adjourned at 9:00pm following a closing prayer by Don Umlauf. Respectfully submitted, |
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