CHURCH COUNCIL MINUTES -- MARCH 13, 2008
Present: Darrell Paske (president), Rachel
Flogstad-Heise, Tami Lueck, Colleen Both,
Dean Maier, Tom Larson, Tim Bergin,
Donna Trapp and Sharon Ingvoldstad
Absent: Pastor Joan,
Denny Holmen and Carol Smith
Guests: Peggy Carlson and
Laurie Winters
- Approved minutes, as written, of our 2/14/2008 meeting. M/S/P (Larson/Maier).
- Approved February 2008 financial report as presented by Tim Bergin, treasurer.
Peggy Carlson presented proposed
LCC policies for Use of Church
Facilities and accompanying church, audio and video use forms
and fee schedules. Laurie Winters provided additional comments. Peggy
reported that they talked to a number of churches for input regarding
those churches’ policies and fee schedules and that these proposed
policies and fees had been discussed with our Property Chair prior to
the council meeting. Property Chair’s comments from that meeting had
been incorporated into the materials before the Council meeting. After
discussion, council requested that a $50 fee for use of sanctuary
equipment systems and a $10 fee for Chapel Hall projection screen
equipment be added to the fee schedule. Motions:
- Approved policies for Use of Church Facilities. M/S/P (Ingvoldstad/Both).
- Approved Church Use form and Fee Schedule with the addition of a $50 fee for use of sanctuary equipment systems and a $10 fee for Chapel Hall projection equipment. M/S/P (Lueck/Bergin).
- Approved effective date of April 1, 2008, for implementation of policies for Use of Church Facilities and Church Use form and Fee Schedules. M/S/P (Maier/Bergin).
Council expressed a SPECIAL THANK
YOU to Peggy Carlson and Laurie Winters for all of their
hard work on this project.
We Present Our Offering
1. Property
- Sanctuary Tiles - Broken tiles to be fixed.
- Parking - Parking in front of the church is not allowed as this is a fire lane. Tom will put up No Parking signs.
- Back Door Latch - Tom will repair.
- Spring Project - Front lawn grass to be replaced.
2. Worship and Music
- Choir Room Cabinets - New estimate to reflect 30 inch vs. 24 inch deep cabinets. Crow Wing Cabinets estimate is $5544 for construction and installation. To be paid as follows: Designated Fund: $1800; Memorials Fund: $3433.32 for a total of $5233.32. A LCC member will pay the differential of $310.68. Installation - late April - early May. Les Trapp will rearrange the ceiling lights and tiles prior to installation.
- New Holy Week Paraments - Paraments will be in place for Holy Week services.
- Youth will lead services on Sunday, April 13th.
- IHN - Here the week of March 9-16. Three families, eight people. Going well. Sandy Simonson has been in charge as I was out of town for a funeral. Doing a fantastic job! My heartfelt thanks to her. Next week of hosting is June 29-July 6 (over July 4th).
- Food Shelf - March is Food Shelf month. Presented 2007 unaudited food shelf numbers.
- Name Badges - Placed second order for name tags. Picking up on March 14th. Dean Maier purchased white boards which will hang outside the sanctuary. People can place name badges on them so they don’t have to bring them from home. Responses to badges have been good. A special thanks to Dean for getting the boards.
- Palm Sunday Services - Children will participate.
- Sunday School - Attendance a bit lower since the first of the year. Similar to past years.
- Spring Dinner - To be held for members of the congregation. Proceeds will go to the Uganda Well Fund.
- VBS - Currently planning Vacation Bible School.
- Easter Breakfast - 7:45 - 11:00 a.m. Freewill offering. Big fund raiser for the youth to be used for upcoming Mission trip. Thrivent should provide matching funds.
- Synod Training - Dean attended training for youth and family. Excellent. Great ideas for generating ways to get youth involved and keep them involved. Will coordinate with Stacey and Rachel.
- Confirmation - April 27th for 25 confirmands.
- Additional Activities - There are a number of activities coming up for confirmation students over the next six weeks.
- Volunteer Coordinator Position - Interviewed Arlene Rice for the position. The Personnel Committee highly recommends her for the position. Start date would be March 25, 2008. M/S/P (Trapp/Ingvoldstad) to accept Personnel Committee recommendation to hire Arlene Rice to start March 25, 2008. M/S/P (Both/Larson) to set work time at 10 - 12 hours per week.
- Lenten Suppers - Going well with the help of over 20 adults and many confirmation youth and their leaders. We have fed around 100 people each week. We will meet next Thursday morning to talk about how it went week by week. I didn’t find an over-all chair for the suppers but had many people volunteer to help. I organized those people into committees for each supper. It seems to have worked all right.
- Fifty Plus - Have not found new leaders, but has been meeting each month with Tom and Marlene Larson pulling it together.
- WELCA - Carolyn Blanck has been working with others to revitalize WELCA. The rummage sale is beginning to pull in volunteers. Need many more by the end of April.
- Blood Drive - To be held September 3rd and 4th. Coordinators are yet to be determined.
- Strategic Planning - Presented recommended goal priority #1. To be discussed at the April council meeting.
Old Business
Tabled discussion of Strategic
Planning Goals until next meeting.
Other
President Paske asked that all
chair persons submit written reports each month for discussion of
highlights at council meetings. Also, we will target meeting
adjournment by 9:30 each month.
We close, as always, with prayer, giving thanks and asking for guidance. All are welcome at Council meetings. Approved minutes and approved financial reports are available in the church office to any member upon request.
Respectfully submitted,
Denny Holmen, secretary
Lutheran Church of the Cross
On Hiway 13 just east of Hiway 371 at Sportland Corner
P.O. Box 29
Nisswa, MN 56468
Phone: 218/963-2564 Fax: 218/963-0294
Email: lcc@lccnisswa.org