Tatesbrook Neighborhood Association - Ice Cream Social

Saturday, July 29th 11:00AM-1:00PM

Tatesbrook Neighborhood Association
First Annual Ice Cream Social

Location: The Church at Tatesbrook
Guest: Lexington Fire Department, Ice Cream, Kids and FUN

Administration Meeting Minutes - June 24, 2006

Attendees:
Mike Brady, Matt Hind, James Davis

Next Meeting:
Saturday, July 22, 8:00 AM

Purpose of Administration Meeting:

Developing leaders that can follow through with excellence in all of the five fold ministries as we coordinate body wide activities and serve each other as unto the Lord

• Discipleship
• Evangelism
• Worship
• Service
• Fellowship

Specific Topics discussed this month:

Political Meetings:
The Tatesbrook Neighborhood Association requested to use our building for a political event this fall and Jackie passed the request on to the elders, trustees and administration team. All who heard of this opportunity were in full support of this. We should embrace opportunities like this to help us tell of our mission to spread the Gospel through relationship, sharing, community, government support and grace instead of religious traditions, sacred objects, rules or laws. It should be known that the Church at Tatesbrook is not endorsing any particular party or candidate when it allows the community to meet in our building.

Finances:
Offerings down in June, but this is not unusual. Others mentioned that June format for teaching in break out groups has broken some habits and that people may be holding all of June offerings until we take offerings again in July.

Job Posting:
One of the goals of this team was to identify jobs that could make our ministry better and to better utilize some members that would like to contribute time and service but just don't know where to start. We have made some progress and still have a few roles

• Sound Mix ( Joe Joe and Josh have begun training )
• Greeting ( Brenda Jones, DonnaMarie, Kim Hind, others?!? )
• Maintaining a list of small repairs around the building ( need volunteer )
• Mercy administrator ( need volunteer )
• Moving Trash to curb on Thursday night ( need volunteer)
• Maintain a rack of pamphlets in the new bookstore (see Mike if you are interested)
• Organizing a Preventative Maintenance program for cars and homes for members in need of help ( need volunteer )

Building: ( Donovan )
The Steeple repair is the top priority and windows are a close second. The administration team decided today to tear it down at the work day in July. We also added a few new items to the list.

• With more people being active around the building, we need to remove all of the trailers (including the one that belongs to Henderson Mowing). One possible solution would be to tear down the shed and replace with a workshop / garage that would have enough room for the trailer
• One more window at dangerous point of falling out
• Repair the plumbing leading to the outside faucet in the rear of the building ( one of the other churches used it again not knowing that it would flood the nursery )

We decided to let Donovan choose the date of our Summer Work Day ( preferences are July 8, 15, or 22):

• Remove all extra trailers, cars, boats
• Put six pews on the curb or in the dumpster ( we are really looking for a home if you know of one )
• Weed the new tree sanctuary
• Remove more junk from the building
• Tear down the steeple

Youth: ( Matt )
Looking at renting a 15 passenger van for Bob's camp this year ( July 9th through 15th) in order to save money and trouble for the parents and leaders. Matt is the only leader that will be traveling down and staying there the whole time.

Calendar
We added the following dates to the church calendar:

• Picnics
  June 4, July 23
• Campout
  Youth - Sept 29-Oct 1
  Church - Aug 25-27 or Sep 1-4
• Lord’s Supper--
  First Sunday of the month
• College Move in--
  Aug 18,19,20th
  Every Sunday Tatesbrook shuttle

Main Church Calendar

June--
25- Missionaries return from Ecuador!
26-30- VBS

July--
2- Lord's Supper
9-15- Bob’s Summer Camp
15- Brother's Meeting
22- Meet with LCF ( Joint Work Day with Dumpster #3?? )
23- Church Picnic
29- Tatesbrook Neighborhood Association Ice Cream Social
30- Youth Game Night

August--
6- Lord's Supper
11-13 - Peter Lord weekend
16- FCPS starts
18-19 - UK College Move In
19- Brother's meeting at BSU ( 7:30 AM )
20- First day of College Shuttle
25-27 Church campout
26- Administration meeting at campout

September--
29-Oct 1 - Youth campout

October--

Make-A-Mess transition to VBS

Matt and his team of able volunteers of varying skills have completed the necessary modifications required prior to VBS starting. The finishing touches of paint on the walls and ceiling, bead board around the room, tile and carpet have transformed the area in one week.

Great job by all who have contributed!

I got one last snapshot of a worker. Scott is a skilled worker and drummer, so his hands are bit blurry in this photograph.

Brothers Meeting Minutes - June 17, 2006

Attendees:
Donovan Lakes, Matt Hind, Josh Wilson, Dan Leahy, James Davis, Michael Blunk, Paul Wilkerson, Tony Jones, Mike Brady.
( Dr. Scott was excused... Ecuador Mission Trip (Kim & Tim) )

Next Meeting: July 15 ( 3rd Saturday of every month )

Purpose of the Brother's Meeting:
Men getting together to share with each other. Ministering to one another and sharing encouragement from individual areas of ministry

Meeting Minutes:

After an opening prayer, Mike started by requesting that the brothers share about areas in which the church is growing and where we need to be active with God:

• Family - Mike shared that the various groups, June teachings, work and fellowship have helped to establish our identity as a family
• Community - Kevin shared that the community is becoming involved and we are just beginning to meet them where they are ( neighborhood association, youth room, Ron's youth group, VBS, fifth quarter)
• Prayer - Josh shared about how key prayer is and used a few examples from the book Praying Effectively For The Lost!

Mike then called on brothers to testify as to what God is doing with the various challenges we face in life:

Tony:

• Grandmothers facing death
• Parents realizing how important they are to each other
• Tony's understanding of God's role in family is growing

Michael Blunk:

• Praying for salvation of his brother ( a super likable person )
• Josh suggested that in praying for the lost, we need to recognize a stronghold
• His brother has just transitioned from physical destructive habits to healthy habits to injury so God has got his attention

Matt:

• Shared feedback from Kim in Ecuador
• Pointed out that he believes this may have great impact on her practice when she returns

Paul:

• Concerned about his family when he is deployed ( 3 months to Ft Dicks, then one year in Afghanistan )
• Accepting what God has given him every day
• Considering ROTC but dependent on God opening doors there

At this point, I had to leave to attend Adam's baseball tournament, but I am extremely blessed to have brothers like these.

Grace and Peace,
Kevin

Make-A-Mess falling back to original schedule

On Saturday, June 3, Matt and Josh began the dry wall work with the strips on the ceiling where the walls were removed. In this picture, Matt is on a ladder and Josh is standing flat footed on the floor. Josh's height has been very effective through the duration of this project. The strength of some of the members was on display yesterday when Jackie was carrying pews and Gadis lugged drywall single handedly.

The workers are getting tired and they hit a few snags:

• Matt and Adam cut into a power main while cutting the wall for the new serving counter
• Gadis cut through a water drain vent pipe

but they continue to press forward to complete the project before VBS needs the building.

This last week, many people learned new skills, which was one of Matt's original goals. Emilie Thomas has had a fun time helping out with several items. I think her favorite was tearing out carpet, but I only have a picture of her cleaning the blocks that will go under the serving counter. This week, our pregnant Kresta Wilson learned how to mud a ceiling on a ladder. She claimed that her inability to create a pattern was an advantage. The results indicate that this is true.

Matt's team has also made a great deal of progress prepping the walls for a fresh coat of paint this week. The border has been removed and there are three coats of mud on the exterior walls where the interior walls once stood.

Some of the members did not want their picture taken while they were working, but that rarely stops me.

And what can we say about Scott Faulkner... This man is a blessing to our body. It is good to know that we are getting things done with quality workmanship and I particularly like to see Scott training young people about electrical work.

Tatesbrook Vision

We exist to exalt Jesus Christ as we grow in relationship to Him and to each other; reaching the world from person to person, house to house, city to city, and nation to nation