Stewardship Committee
Minutes of October 26, 2010 meeting
1. Present: Dick Hough, Bob Brundage, Herb Holler, Pastor John.
2. Meeting opened with prayer by Pastor John.
3. Pastor John thanked the committee members for their good work on this year’s program. The encouraging response already indicates a good choice was made to return to a variation on the Pony Express style of distributing the materials.
4. As of this morning (10/26), we had received about 142 responses. Three baskets were sill out. And about two dozen packets were undelivered. Some will be delivered, some will be mailed.
5. Dick Hough will contact the Priests about finishing their neighborhood. Geri Bradley said she would deliver to hers later in the week. Carol Paul, Jan Gerk and others have offered to deliver the remaining packets.
6. A few suggestions were made for next time:
· Simpler instructions
· Add email addresses, especially for the foreman, as people seem less willing to phone these days.
· Change the instructions so that people deliver to the closest home rather than the next on an alphabetical list.
· Use one foreman per neighborhood
· Instruct foremen to phone/email more often to keep track of basket
· Add a line on the Time & Talent Report for those who might like to help organize a neighborhood service event (see #8 below)
7. Follow-up plans. At next meeting we will address postcards to all those who responded, thanking them for their part in a successful harvest, etc.
8. Neighborhood service project. We would still like to see the neighborhoods gather together to plan and execute a service project of some kind, involving as many members of the neighborhood as possible. We’ll wait until the new year to work on this. In the meantime, committee members are asked to think about someone in each neighborhood who would be a good person to ask to facilitate a brainstorming and planning session with their neighbors. We’ll discuss possible helpers at next meeting.
9. Some kind of thermometer (wine bottle?) to visualize the number of households that responded and the amount pledged will appear in the newsletter, or Sunday Grapevine, PowerPoint on Sunday, etc.
10. Next meeting: Tuesday, November 23, 2010 at 7:00 p.m.
Respectfully submitted,
Pastor John W. Soyster
Secretary pro tem
“Tending The Vineyard”
The 2010-11 Stewardship Program
A. Goals B. Calendar C. To Do List D. Questions
E. Ideas F. Scripture Resources G. Vignette
· live among God's faithful people,
· hear the word of God and share in the Lord's supper,
· proclaim the good news of God in Christ through word and deed,
· serve all people, following the example of Jesus,
· strive for justice and peace in all the earth.
· and planned giving (see www.mountcross.com/talents.pdf)