Ministry
Board Meeting
June 27, 2011
Minutes
In attendance at the meeting
were: Lori Andrews, Becky
Gitthens, Pastor Glenn Heinsch, Pastor Steve Vetter, Bob York, Dick Wortham,
Cindy Curley, Tim Byer and Liz Byer Absent:
Margie Langston and Robert Clausen.
Pastor Steve opened the meeting
in prayer at 7:05.
Tim Byer read Phil. 2:1-5.
He felt these were good verses to use as a mission statement for this
Board.
1 Therefore if you have any
encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if
any common sharing in the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, 2
then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one
in spirit and of one mind. 3 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or
vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, 4
not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the
others. 5 In your relationships with one another, have the same
mindset as Christ Jesus:
The group spent some time
going over the format of each meeting. Starting
time will be promptly at 7:00 p.m. The
time-lines listed on the agenda will be followed closely but some flexibility
will be allowed if the subject is important. Items will be decided by a general
consensus. The group will work hard
to have each meeting ending by close to 8:30 as possible.
Agendas for the meetings will be sent out one week prior to each meeting
along with other pertinent information.
It was decided that certain
basic information will be gathered for topics being presented to the group.
Please share with your groups that the template
will be on the main page of FBC’s website, on the left hand side of the page
titled Ministry Board’s Information Sharing Template. The flow of
information would be: a certain
committee has a project ->they would fill out the template with the basic
info -> give it to their Ministry Board Leader -> who would send it to Tim
Byer so he could send it out with the next agenda. The group presenting that
information would be asked to come to the up-coming meeting and share their info
and excitement about their project.
* This Ministry Board is
not designed to take away the power and decision making ability from committees.
It is just in place to help communication with the other committees.
Purchase of the new baby
grand or grand piano was presented during this meeting and each representative
reported no adverse thoughts from their groups.
The “care and feeding” of the piano would come from the worship
team’s budget. Also they were
asked to designate the people who will care for the heater/ humidifier.
A note will go into the bulletin announcing the new piano and asking
parents to help us keep the children off the stage.
Each Ministry Board Leader
checked with their groups about storage. The
group discussed new up-coming storage areas, and that some old ones had been
cleaned out. Tim Byer asked that
each party only clean out the area that belongs to them…not someone else’s.
The budget process was also
discussed. It is not the responsibility of any Ministry Board Leaders to do the
budget for their groups.
It is only the job of this Board to be sure the groups have the info they
need to complete their budget requests for 2012.
Please communicate with your groups that there
will be a line item for childcare on the budget forms this year. Dick
Wortham asked that a copy of the budget form be sent out soon so he can share
that with his outreach group.
Round Robin time for each
Leader to share info about the groups they represent:
* Downstairs bathrooms off
Jr. Church room will be remodeled. More storage will come from this
* A person is needed for All Church Dinners.
* Need more teachers for Children’s Sunday School.
* Need more small group leaders.
Tim asked for
each leader to monitor how the “one-service” idea is working for
everyone’s groups.
Pastor Steve handed a
Discussion Sheet on Present and Future Facility. He stressed this is just a
discussion sheet. The Elders’ feel
the congregation first needs to agree on the issues of our facility before we
move forward with any other ideas concerning the current or new facility. Please use this sheet to generate discussion with your groups.
Pastor Glenn Heinsch closed
the meeting in prayer at 9:01.
The next meeting is
scheduled for July 25 at 7:00 p.m.
Template
for Sharing Information about a New Project at FBC
Project
Name:___________________________________________________________________________
Timeline:
______________________________________________________________________________
Financial
Info:___________________________________________________________________________
Contact person for the
project?______________________________________________________________
Which mission(s) does it fulfill at FBC
Winning, Growing, Serving ?
______________________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________