Minutes of 12/6/2011 Meeting
Present: Bob Boyer, Nora Fajnor, Pastor Erik Goehner, Bill Stoll, and Gordon Henry
Absent: Pat Gallagher, Mary Goodenough, Tracy Blois and Melissa Henry (After opening Erik moved to the Executive Meeting)
Our
Goals of
the committee focus on three areas: fostering the spirit of volunteerism among
1. Opened with a prayer from Erik. Minutes from 11/1/2011 were approved. Gordon will submit minutes to Marilyn to be posted on the web.
2. Fair Trade Coffee
3. Summer of Soul Care – Shoe Recycling – Pat picked up and delivered the boxes of shoes to Soles 4 Souls. Gordon will post pictures and write up on kiosk.
4. Blood Drives for 2012 – Bill Stoll reserved three dates for blood drives February 26th June 17th and October 21st. Will check church calendar and add.
5. Alt Christmas – LWR Fair and Gifts of Hope – The craft sale did very well on first two Sundays - we ordered more for the final Sunday which also had a great response with not too much to return – final numbers by January meeting if it’s ready. Gifts of Hope also stellar start with over $5,500 so far – will keep poster in office until Christmas and may have a final number in January.
6. Habitat for Humanity – Site in
7. LSS Collection – Bob delivered a load of donations recently and is keeping an eye on the bin. Mary has been getting articles to the newsletters.
8. LSS/Project Understanding “Home to
9. Many Meals –
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11. Assemble homeless kits at the Dec 18th
Children’s program – Melissa and Tracy will set up and supervise the table
at the Pizza dinner.
12. Mount Cross Shirt sales – Sunday of the Annual meeting – Gordon proposed setting up a table on Sunday Jan 29th at service and at the meal and meeting – approved by those present.
13. Souper Bowl of Caring Feb 5th – This national fundraiser program will be done to support St Columba’s food bank and will be supported by a matching grant from Thrivent.
14. CROP Hunger Walk – March 11th - Set for old town – more details soon.
15. Church Budget update – Cash flow issues discussed and some other issues of members directing contributions to “not leave the church” may be clouding the budget process.
16. Thanks – Gordon thanked all for the great year and many accomplishments of the team.
17. Hunger Postcards – Discussed having available at coffee sales and the annual meeting
18. Next
Meeting: January 3, 7:00 pm at
19. Closed with a prayer by Gordon.