Council Minutes from May 2013

Genesee Lutheran Parish Church Council Minutes

May 14, 2013

In attendance:

Pastor Dave, Gayle Rossebo, Patrick Adams, Amy Peterson, Jennifer Parkins, Susan Riggs, Doug Cartwright, Linda Chilson

Amy did devotion on Stewardship.

Doug reported on buildings and plans. They are planning on weed & feeding the lawns. There was a discussion on replacing the steps at St John’s.

Pastor’s report-

First Gospel group was at Patrick’s house, he found this to be very helpful. Theology on Tap went great. Youth will be attending the new Star Trek movie on the 16^th.

He will be gone some Sundays this summer so will be looking for people to help with services.

First Sunday in June church will begin at 9:30 through the summer at Valley Lutheran.

Pastor hired a couple of kids to mow the lawn at St John’s.

Rosanna asked to use the Fellowship Hall at St John’s on May 25^th for graduation party, this was okayed by the council.

Ole suggested recycling the can to get the youth a soda maker. Pastor donated a buffet warmer.

June 9^th there will be a showing of the Sunday School movies.

Pastor gave a report on Synod conference and came back with some ideas for Stewardship.

This summer we will be getting some books and dvds by Mark Allen Powel for the council to pass around to read and watch to help us come with how we want to handle it here at Genesee. When we come back in September we will discuss what we have gotten from the books and dvds.

There is going to be a workshop on Stewardship at Moscow Emmanuel Lutheran, will get more details on that for us.

Pastor is going to be working on having church’s from our cluster doing some things together. The first one he would really like to work on is inviting them to attend and be involved in Rock-N-Roll Sunday in September.

Another is to have a Good News Evangelism workshop on some of the things we do differently here and that seems to be working. ie: Theology On Tap.

One Celebration Sunday we may have a bus for us to go to another Church in the Cluster and celebrate with them.

Next meeting will be in September.

Council Minutes from April 2013

Genesee Lutheran Parish Church Council Minutes

April 9, 2013

In Attendance:

Patrick Adams, Susan Rigg, Courtney Sharnhorst, Amy Peterson, Jennifer Parkins, Linda Chilson, Gayle Rossebo, Dan Carter, and Pastor David Deckard

Amy will do devotional next month.

Susan went over the Budget report and let us know she will transferring one of the CD’s into the general fund.

We discussed what is going to happen with Vacation Bible School this year, there was someone who was going to coordinate it but she had to back out due to other obligations.  The theme this year is Code of Armor. Pastor Dave felt as long as we could get people to help out he could come up with a plan so that we will have VBS. He will report back on how he is progressing with that.

We moved on into the Pastors report-

Pastor reported on how well Easter services went and thanked everyone for helping with services and music.

There will be a monthly meeting with any Parishioners that would like to come help work on sermon ideas for the month.  

Pentecost Sunday is May 19^th and would like ideas on how we want to celebrate it this year.

Services move out to the Valley Church May 5^th and will continue at 10 through May and change to 9:30 in June. The 28^th of April is the last day for Sunday School for this year.

On Saturday soon he would like to get people to come help clean up the yard and take down lights at St John’s.

We need to come up with guidelines for how the church will help with funeral services and meals. Susan said she will help organize meals unless anyone else wants to do it. We do need to get names and phone numbers of people who are willing to help out with the meals.

Next month we will work on our Mission Statement