GOOD
SHEPHERD LUTHERAN CHURCH CONGREGATIONCOUNCIL
MINUTES – DATE: APRIL 12,
2010 Members
Present:
Debbie Appleyard, Steve
Bartsch, Ione Miedema, Patrick Zdun, Tammy Neumann, Freddie Scott,
Shelly
Schneider, Cathy Lau, Matt Berrier
Ex
Officio Present: Becky Curtis, Recording Secretary,
Pastor Peter Ruggles, Ruth Raatz, Financial Secretary
Excused:
None
Guests:
None
CALL
TO ORDER
Meeting
called to order by Vice President Steve Bartsch at 6:36
p.m.
OPENING
PRAYER
By
Pastor Peter, taken from “Blueprints for Change – A Manual for Change in
the
21st Century Congregation” Chapter 10 – I don’t have any
gifts.
GUEST
COMMENTS
None
MINUTES
–
March 8, 2010
The
minutes were approved as distributed via email.
TREASURERS
REPORT
for the month ending March 31, 2010
General
Fund
Expenses
exceeded receipts by $1,787.51.
Contributions were $80 higher and expenses $1,957 higher compared
to
average. Compared to last year,
contributions were $4,412 lower and expenses were $1,200 lower. Easter was in March last year which may
have increased contributions somewhat.
Ending balance is $2,735.
Federal and State Withholdings were $1,375 which are expensed but
will
not be paid until April.
Building
Fund
Contributions
exceeded expenses by $1,405 resulting in an ending balance of $9,330. Contributions were $3,276 compared to
$3,991 last March.
Short
Term Designated
Receipts
and disbursements for Word Hunger were $39.30 Receipts to the Flower
Fund were
$370. Youth had receipts of $35 and
disbursements of $984.36. The end
balance for STD is $16,782.
Sunday
School had receipts of $82.06
Building
Contingency and Equipment/Replacement Fund had no activity.
MSC
to accept the Treasurer’s Report for the month ending March 31, 2010 and
place
on file. (Shelly Schneider, Matt
Berrier, all ayes)
“TALK TO COUNCIL”
FEEDBACK
None
PASTOR’S
REPORT
April 12, 2010
Baptism: Nathaniel Jacob
White
Marriage: None
Funerals: Joann Lange
New
Members: Troy
DeRuyter, Britt
Paulson
1st
Communion: Mason
Coffren, Sierre Coffren, Reed Curtis, Kjersten Geisler, Arin Jelmeland,
Isabella
Jewell, Bethany Mader, Katja Schroeder, Isaiah Schulz, Samantha
Stuttgen
Hospital
Visits: Joyce
Baneck, Nick Beeman, Joann Lange,
Carol Rothfusz
Nursing
Home Visits: Marshfield
Care Center Worship
Meeting
Attended:Other: Easter
Shut-in
Visits: Elaine
Peterson, Jack Neumann, Sally
Kautza, Helen Swanson
MSC
to approve the Pastor’s Report and new members (Steve Bartsch, Tammy
Neumann all
ayes)
Pastor
distributed the Quarterly Financial Report to compare income and
expenses from
2009 to 2010. Expenses are higher
this year than they were last year while the offering has remained the
same.
President’s
Report
– Ione Miedema
Welcome
Cathy Lau and Matt Berrier to their new positions.
MINISTRY
REPORTSFELLOWSHIP-Freddie
Scott
No
Report.
LEARNING-Cathy
Lau
Looking
for a Vacation Bible School Coordinator and looking at dates to hold
VBS. Looking at having a get-together for the
men of the congregation.
OUTREACH-Tammy
Neumann
1.
Attended
Nominating Committee meeting on 3/15
2.
Attended
Congregational meeting on 3/28
3.
Attended
Community Gardens meeting on 4/5
4.
Coordinating
workers for Community Gardens work days at Good Shepherd on 4/24, 5/1,
5/8 @
9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
5.
Next
Community Gardens meeting is 5/3 – 9:00-10:30 a.m. at Center for
Community
Outreach Conference Room
PROPERTY-Matt
Berrier
Matt
is prioritizing the landscaping needs for the church property. Lawn needs to be finished around the
building, replace the edging, patios and gardens. The
bare minimums are the brick edging,
the patio, and to repair the lawn.
Work nights will begin in a couple of weeks. Pastor
reminded that there are funds
from the building funds for the repair of the grass, and edging as those
items
were destroyed because of the building project. Pastor
would like to start a short-term
designated fund for people who would like to donate toward the
landscaping, both
specifically for bushes and general donations to the project. Motion to create a short-term designated
fund-Landscaping (Shelly Schneider, Patrick Zdun, all
ayes).
STEWARDSHIP-Debbie
Appleyard
No
Report.
YOUTH-Shelly
Schneider
April
17th is National Youth Service Day, April 24th is
the Soup
and Socks Boy Scout Food Drive and they need help again this year. Items on the list of how to spend the
$3,000: projector, furniture for confirmation room, laptop, carpet for
sanctuary, meditation garden, tv, donation to Marshfield Area Coalition
for
Youth, band and lock in, giving it to a nursing home, keep in the budget
for
confirmation spending-flowers and meal for confirmation, furniture for
fellowship hall, peanut grinder for Malawi. Shelly
and Steve will discuss how and
when it will be presented to the youth and the youth will vote on the
options.
WORSHIP-Patrick
Zdun
Good
comments about Holy Week and Easter with decorations and worship
services.
UNFINISHED
BUSINESS
1.
Feedback
from the special meeting - Ione sent copies of by-laws and constitution
to the
office to put on the website.
2.
Nominating
committee update – The group has met a couple of times and have
nominations for
the positions coming open.
3.
Picture
directory – There are two volunteers who will work on it but neither
will
volunteer to lead it. The plan is
to have pictures taken in September.
4.
Audit
Committee – Members have been selected but they have not met yet. Lee Babcock will coordinate a date for
the audit.
NEW
BUSINESS
1.
Vote
for council members on May 16, pastor would like to have a new member
welcome on
that day. There are about 15 new
members in the past year. Pot Luck
after the second service.
Announcements
Next
Council Meeting:
May 10, 2010 6:30 p.m.
Host: Patrick
Zdun
MSC
adjourn (Debbie Appleyard, Shelly Schneider all ayes)
Meeting
adjourned at 8:43 p.m. with the Lord’s Prayer.
Respectfully
Submitted,
Becky
Curtis, Recording Secretary
Job Title
Fellowship Ministry Director
RESPONSIBLE TO:
Congregation Council
DESCRIPTION OF
RESPONSIBILITIES:
The Fellowship
Ministry shall initiate activities and
programs to strengthen the fellowship between congregation members,
including
youth, spiritually and socially.
The Fellowship
Ministry Director shall have authority
over and supervision of the ministry.
The Director shall appoint one ministry member to be the
secretary, whose
duty it shall be to keep minutes of all ministry meetings.
The Director shall chair ministry
meetings, prepare the meeting agenda,
and represent that ministry at meetings of the Congregation
Council. The Director may call special meetings
of the ministry as necessary. The
Director shall consider, authorize and present to the Treasurer for
payment
individual bills pertaining to his/her ministry within the limits of the
approved budget and any additional constraints imposed by the
Congregation
Council.
The Director is
also responsible ensuring that the
ministry:
1.
Submits a
report of activities at the congregation meeting held in
January.
2.
Performs
the functions and duties assigned to it by the constitution, bylaws and
any
resolutions of this congregation.
3.
Initiates
and accomplishes such activities and programs which will advance the
mission and
goals of this congregation.
4.
Administers all funds set aside for its work by budget
appropriation or
by resolution of this congregation.
The ministry shall be responsible for ensuring that expenditures
do not
exceed those authorized. The
Congregation Council may restrict expenditures to conform with the
actual
financial condition of this congregation at any time.
5.
Keeps
permanent written minutes of each meeting, such minutes to be the
property of
this congregation. After each
meeting of the ministry, a copy of these minutes shall be submitted to
the
President.
6.
Sets the
time and frequency of ministry meetings, except that, for good and
sufficient
reason, either the President or the Pastor may call a meeting of the
ministry at
any time.
7.
Employs
its coordinators (and committees) to accomplish the objectives of the
ministry
in specific areas.
8.
Prepares
an annual budget request to be submitted by the director to the
President in the
form and at the time requested.
reports to
church council
