MINUTES: CONGREGATIONAL MEETING
November 19, 2006

Dave Brabec, council president, called the meeting to order at 9:50 A.M.

Pastor Gunderman led the meeting in prayer and after the prayer Dave turned the meeting over to Lee Wangstad of the Nominating Committee.

Nominating Committee

Lee thanked members of the committee and those that had accepted nominations to serve.

Lee read the nominee names for all offices and asked for nominations from the floor.

Donna Trapp (Motion - Ann Lanz/Second - Mary Brumfield) was nominated to serve as chair of Music and Worship. Hearing no further nominations, there was a motion, second and approval to close nominations.

Election

Ballots were cast at 10:00 A.M.

Subsequent to ballot count, the following were the election results:

    President: Dave Brabec
    Vice President: Darrell Paske
    Secretary: Dennis Holmen
    Treasurer: Mary Backlund
    Outreach: Colleen Both
    Worship and Music: Donna Trapp
    Youth: Dean Maier
    Synod Assembly Voting Members:
        Marjorie Holmstrom, Leon Holmstrom, Sandy Simonson
    Memorial Garden & Columbarium Board:
        Robert Warneke
    Endowment Fund Committee:
        William Nemitz, Timothy Bergin, John Erickson, Robert Warneke,
        Thomas Larson
    2007 Nominating Committee:
        Marvel Ring, Wes Anderson, Kari Campion

Worship Service Start Time

President Brabec opened the floor for discussion of first service start time (8:30 vs. 8:15).

Education Chair Tami Lueck explained that Sunday School begins at 9:30 and the current schedule makes it difficult to accomplish their teachings as desired. She explained this is why her committee, along with Worship and Music, brought the request to council to change the service start time to 8:15.

Conversation Included: Concern was voiced regarding potential added inconvenience for the elderly. It was also indicated that if inconvenient, there is a second service at 10:30.

It was asked whether the 8:15 start time is a "Given" or will there be a vote to make a final determination.

A trend of Sunday School attendance for the past 5 years was requested. President Dave indicated that the request would be placed on hold for now and the council would conduct a review of the statistics. Based upon experience, concerns were expressed indicating support of the 8:15 start time. It was also stated that this is not a new discussion and that ministry to our children is very important.

Finally, it was asked if we could vote on the service start time at this meeting. President Dave indicated that we could not as it was not on the agenda as an item to be voted upon.

President Dave indicated that the issue will be on the agenda and a vote will be conducted at the January 28, 2007 meeting.

After prayer, the meeting was adjourned.

Respectfully Submitted,

Denny Holmen, Secretary
November 21, 2006

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