Newsletter, July 13, 2008

“Family and Friends” Business Meeting
Sunday, July 13, 2008

Sign up sheet indicates that next Class Social is being hosted by Tony and Amy Murphy. However, they were not in attendance at the meeting so no details were discussed.

Discussion regarding subsidizing cost of child care during Class Socials.
Historically, Ed and Claire paid Robin $45/night and parents paid $5/child or $10/family while also chipping in to help cover cost of pizza for both staff and children.
Janet will approach John Haney about whether the church would be willing to continue this ministry in the Wheeler’s absence to allow parents with small children to be more able to attend Class Socials.
Janet will also discuss with John the discovery that Robin was inadvertently not compensated for the last 2 events.

Karen will be moving which forces us to nominate a new Class Treasurer.
David McCorvey volunteered and discussions ensued about closing existing account and opening a new account under church’s identification numbers that has free checking and will be easier to access, etc.
ADDENDUM: ERICA LARSH WOULD LIKE TO BE CLASS TREASURER. DAVID WILL GIVE HER THE OFFERING THAT WAS COLLECTED DURING THE MEETING TO BE DEPOSITED IN THE CLASS ACCOUNT.

Discussions continued regarding the class account. Currently, there is only about $8 available due to recent expenditures within the class with the Wheeler’s departure, baby showers, donations to groups within the church, etc.
Carla voiced that she’d like to see us gradually return to having a cushion available in the account. This would allow the class to more easily give appointed funds to appointed individuals to carry out class functions which is preferable over having to raise money among whoever is present as a need arises.
Karen pointed out that historically, any money raised by “passing the hat” during class time was divided with half going into the class account and half going to the church into an account earmarked for Sunday School Classes in general. This is simply historical and class discussion continued regarding whether we’d like to continue that practice or decide to allot our funds in some other manner.
Discussion continued on other ways the class could build up the account through fund raising, etc.
It was further decided that this matter should be considered and discussed with more class members than the number present and discussion should resume at the next class meeting with the intent to come to some conclusion on allotment of class funds.

Rave reviews ensued on what a fantastic job Tony and Amy are doing as they lead our class in study. Carla reminded the class that both Tony and Amy are more than willing to share this experience with anyone who would like to also share in leading the class in study. Several individuals seemed interested and it was stated that anyone who was interested could go to Tony and Amy to discuss options or ideas.
Along those lines, Carla suggested that Amy may want to offer her position as Outreach Coordinator to lighten her load. Amy has been doing a fabulous job and may want to continue, so Carla will talk to her before we solicit volunteers.

Paul expressed that he would like to see the online Blog continue and volunteered to do it. He requests any hand-outs from class studies in order to help him and prefers it to be e-mailed in a Word format when possible.

It was discussed that Newsletters can be generated by anyone in the class as the need arises in order to distribute information in a timely manner. Paul will try to forward the most updated list of e-mail addresses of class members to all class members so that this will be possible.

Paul discussed that the Trustees are seeking to find groups that may be willing to volunteer their services in order to alleviate the need for the church to hire outside help for maintenance and repairs around the building. It was decided that our class would like to first tackle the Resource Room and will meet August 2nd at 9am to do so.
ADDENDUM: ORGANIZATION OF THE RESOURCE ROOM WILL BE RESCHEDULED DUE TO CONFLICTS WITH SCHEDULES OF MEMBERS OF THE CLASS.

Meeting was adjourned. Next meeting date will be determined by next scheduled Class Social.