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INTERNATIONAL PARTNERS MINISTRY
ACTION TEAM
Minutes for
10/26/07
Over-Arching
Goals:
1. Enable churches and their members to
engage in effective
ministry
2. Overcome barriers of communication,
culture, gender and age.
3.
Facilitate face to face
interaction
4. Interpret and apply understanding
learned through the international
Partnership
Members
Attending:
Karen Woehler, Lynn Yueill, Rev. William
Yueill, LeRoy Ennenga, Gary Woehler, Rev. James
Krapf
Members Not
Attending:
Rev. Stacey Steck, Carol Stiles, Jan
Prehn, Diane Gravley, Gladys Ratzlaff, Edith Alvarez,
Merrilyn Arndt, Harold Kampa, Heidi
Stauffenecker
Actions
Taken:
1. 10/26/2007 - Voted to approve August
4th minutes as entered on the Presbytery
site.
2. 10/26/2007 - Voted expense Invoices for
the recent water filter project actual expenses be
passed back to Virginia at the Presbytery
office. This accounting should be in US dollars
figured at the rate of 7.5 Quetzales to the
dollar.
The remaining cash may be returned to
Virginia
or passed on to the next project leader. Bill will
contact Harold regarding this
action.
3. 10/26/2007 - voted this policy for
future cash advances:
"Members of delegations who
are
working on
projects may be given cash advances authorized by
IPMAT. Within 60 days
of
completing the project, the members who have
received cash advances must submit expense
invoices and remaining balance of the advance to
the Presbytery's financial manager. This
accounting should be calculated at the current
rate of exchange between dollars and
quetzales."
4. 10/26/07 - Voted to transfer $5200 in
the delegation account to L5075 for
anticipated
delegation from
Occiente
('08) and our delegates to a net work meeting in
Quatemala (08).
5. NOTE: This $5200 is in addition to the
$6704.71 remaining in accounts #3180 and #3138.
6. 10/26/07 voted that any balances
remaining in #3180 and #3138 be transferred to L 5085
for
Water Project
Supplies.
7. NOTE Accounts as of 10/25/07: #3180 Committee
Expense & 3081 Committee Educational
material have expenditures totaling $995.29
leaving a balance of $6704.71; #L5075 Int
Partners Task Force has balance of $8422.76;
$4,395.89 was transferred into this account from
Hearts and Hands Project L5093-2; #5082 Water
Project travel (in and out for the most part)
has
a balance of $2156.27; #L 5085 Water
Project Supplies has a balance of
$619.55
8. NOTE '08 Committee
Expense: $2000.
Committee Education Material $500.
Exchange
Delegate $7200.
9. 10/26/07 voted that financial gifts
between Minn. Valleys Presbytery and Occidente will be
channeled in the manner prescribed by current
National P.C.U.S.A. policy.
10. 10/26/07 It was voted to house at the
Presbytery office items and documents illustrative of
the history of our Presbytery’s Partnership with
Occidente Presbytery.
11. Previously approved $500 to $1000
(L5075) approved for Gary to attend Mission Conference
is to be written to CAPACITA in the amount of
$730.35.
12. Authorized Karen W. to write a Valley
Bridge article about supporting missionaries of
P.C.U.S.A., particularly David
Thomas.
13. Jim Krapf reported on the Oct 14-15
Synod Hispanic Ministry Gathering:
1) there are many models - a provided Hispanic
Pastor, a video titled "Prairie Salsa", a
pastor
who has a soccer outreach problem.
2) We in the U.S. are a missional church in which
the mission is among us where we are
in
the U.S.
3) Resources for Spanish ministry in Spanish are
now much more available.
14. Alma Lili's e mail responding to the
idea of Hispanic ministry in Minn. Valleys Presbytery
and her availability: It's a good
idea. As proposed its larger than someone coming in cold
and becoming acquainted with 3 or 4 different
communities can accomplish. Alma Lili
suggests a field study of the several Minn.
communities.
15. NEXT INTERNATIONAL PARTNERSHIP ACTION
TEAM meeting
Friday, April 11,
2008.
Actions
Pending:
Devotions were from the Year Book of
Mission, 10/23/07 describing the Siblia water filtering
project from Harold Kampa's report.
Old
Business
1.
Next Water Project:
Where:
Quizel.
Potential dates: Jan.25, Feb 1, Feb
8.
Who?
LeRoy Ennenga, Gary Woehler, ?Edith Alvarez,
?Thalia Taylor (whose first
language is Spanish, St Peter, Union
Church),
Kurt (Crosby) Matt Lockwood, (Bill Y.
has contacted him).
Individual costs: $700-$1000.
Cost of Material: $1500 from Living Waters
Warehouse in Tenn.-Ozone generator, and
filters.
2. The letter of invitation to MVP in Sept
'08, including the Presbytery meeting, as been
signed
by appropriate
MVP leaders and sent.
3. Clarification is needed on requests
from Occidente reported by delegation in 10/06 and
reaffirmed in Oziel's 10/11/07 email. Are the
requests for Internet Radio worship services,
and
C.D.s for worship for broadcast to Latino residents in
MN.
Is this a means for
Occidente's mission to and through MN Valleys
Presbytery to Latino/Hispanic people in MN?
A
vehicle is not something the International Partnership
is prepared to do.
4. Minn.Valleys Pres. Presbyterian Women
visit to Occidente Presbyterian Women 2/08:
a)
Kathy Terpstra may know about this,
b) Women Walking with Women participants reported
no problem in Christian women of
Occidente gathering with Minn. Valleys Pres.
Presbyterian Women.
5. Gathered items and documents of the
Partnership.
The box is in the Presbytery office. Karen
and
Edith will review and organize the
material.
6. Mission Challenge '07 visit by mission
worker David Thomas itinerating in Minn.
Valleys
Presbytery indicated that the emerging mission
model is based on friendship, solidarity and
partnership.
7. Hispanic ministry initiatives in Minn.
Valleys Presbytery: Attorney
Susan Roberts (1st
Presby Ch, St Cloud) is knowledgeable and works
with immigrants. Rueben
Armendariz who
presented cross cultural ministry to Cong Growth
& Development in the past is deceased at
age
99.
8. November 27 Presbytery meeting at
Willmar:
we'll have some time. Report on Water
Project,
Hispanic
Ministries, and Invitation for new International
Partnership members.
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