Committee Minutes
9/8/07
Members
in attendance: Shirley Luhmann, Rev. Christina Berry,
Heidi Chapman, Rev. Bill Kleymann, Rev. Jim Krapf,
Charles Moore, Rev. Herb Rotunda, Duane Scherbing, Jim
Stevens, Connie Seltz
Members
not attending: Rev. Don Crissinger-Clark, Dorie Oja,
Rev. Tom Gard
Ex-Officio
Attenders: Rev. Sue Coller
Actions
Taken:
*Revisited
the grant request for the Women Walking With Women in
Guatemala from the Health Ministries L5021 account.
After discussion and a review of the parameters of the
account, Shirley will contact the grant requestor to
obtain an accounting of the expenses and funding from
the trip as it has already occurred. The committee has
directed Shirley to determine the final amount (not to
exceed $1,000) that would be approved from the
aforementioned account.
*Approved
a grant request from Faith Presbyterian in Silver Lake
for $750 from E3150 (Computers in Churches line item).
Al Jorgenson has already deemed that Silver Lake will
meet the criteria for this program
*The
committee designated Don & Jim to review the
Computers in Churches current policy and bring forth
recommendations of any changes needed as since the
inception of the program was several years ago, and
technology has evolved since then.
*Obtain
verification of 2 line items in the budget recap from
L5013
*Approved
the transfer of $2,000 from E3150 designated for the
Clearwater Conference to be moved and set aside for the
2008 conference. Form will be completed to have this
designated amount moved yearly for this biannual
event.
*Update
from Jim on the Hispanic-Anglo Ministry Partnership
Project. A job description has been emailed. Worthington
has had several community events. Community Outreach is
a large focus area..
*Update
on the overhaul/redesign of the Presbytery website. Sue
is working with Nathan and we were able to view a few
sample web pages. Committee has also authorized Virginia
to move any funds remaining from the original amount of
$3,000 by the end of the year and have it set aside for
the completion of this project.
*Sue
gave updates on the 5 churches she is working on Natural
Church Development with:
-St. James is proceeding to put together their
health team
-Willmar has their survey completed and is moving
to put an action plan in place
-Marshall has small groups
meeting
-Renville is putting together their health
team
-Canby is in the small group
stage
*Discussed
the time that Sue is spending on NCD. She is possibly
only needed at 7 meetings with each church and then
possibly future update meetings with the
churches.
*Discussion
about training additional people and that Sue could
possibly train them. Also discussed that if more than 1
church in a Cluster was interested in NCD, then the
first 2 initial meetings could be joint
meetings.
*Proposed
that if additional people are trained for NCD, that
CG&D pay a stipend of $250 per church for the first
year. The churches would pay $250 for the survey, all
travel expenses for the trainer and $100 for the final
survey.
*Sue
will put together a presentation for the February
Presbytery meeting about NCD. She will prepare handouts
and CG&D will possibly order the books to be handed
out. Sue will also put a proposal together for our
November meeting about how to get the NCD info out to
churches, recruiting trainers, and ongoing funding,
etc.
*Shirley
will complete form for Virginia to create a separate “L”
account specifically for NCD and to move any funds
received & expenditures to date to this
account.
*Letter
to be prepared to go out in early 2008 to the Whiteseal
contracted churches with the parameters of obtaining
their 2nd year of funding. Discussion at the
next meeting about increased funding for these
churches.
*Learned
that Jackpot Junction and the reservation have
defibulators that are available to any churches that
request them (while supplies last). Don will forward the
info regarding this to Shirley who will compose an email
with the information to be sent to all the churches in
our Presbytery.
*Motion
to approve funding for 6 people ($80/person) to attend
the Transformation Retreat in Iowa. Committee member
funds will come out of E2180 and the remaining will come
from E3150. Attendees will report back to the committee
at our next meeting.
*Richard
joined the committee to discuss how there are several
areas where CG&D and COM overlap (as well as some
areas with Congregational Resources). Committee has
designated Shirley & Don to meet with other members
of COM & CR with Sue to see how all of these
committees can work together in these overlapping areas.
*Also
discussed partnering with COM and non-committee members
to develop more personal relationships with churches in
the clusters. For now, CG&D triennial visits will
continue as is.
*Shirley
to gather remaining recap reports from completed visits
and send back to the churches with letters. Discussion
at next meeting about on-going follow-up with
churches.
*Discussed
how COM & CG&D can help churches who express
that they have leadership issues. More discussion needed
as to how we can help churches that aren’t already
working on NCD or with Dr. Whiteseal. Sue, Shirley,
Richard & Jim will have some discussion regarding
resources & training/eduction in the next few weeks
and info will be brought back to next meeting.
*Reviewed
email from Ed Morgan regarding interest from CG&D to
work with St. Cloud in the area of Campus Ministry.
Christina volunteered to sit in on St. Cloud’s visioning
meetings regarding this. (Shirley will attend with
Christina if able)
*Discussed
New Church Development and that CG&D will take the
lead from the Task Force. Shirley will contact Kathy T.
regarding this.
Actions
pending:
-Next
meeting November 10, 2007 from 10-2. Committee members
should think about the competing needs in the Presbytery
and to think about our committee’s role within the
Presbytery.
-Any
committee member who has completed a Triennial visit is
to forward their recap report to Shirley L by
9/15/07.
