Administration Meeting Minutes - July 3, 2010

Attendees:
Botched communication and scheduling for meeting... no attendance, but great consensus.

Next Meeting:
Saturday, October 2, 8:00 AM

Purpose of Administration Meeting:

Developing leaders that 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:

Discipleship
There were several signs of life this past quarter from the College Group, the Youth Group, Community interaction, Elders study, and even the Ecuador trip and the young families working on the nursery could be described as discipleship in a way.

We have some great teaching coming up in July with David Ravenhill and hopefully with Bob Warren in September.

Worship
Sound board, power amp and speakers were purchased in the second quarter. The team is still considering a new keyboard, a new laptop for media shout, mounting the monitors and moving video input to the rear of building.

Fellowship
Continued interest has been express about the Men's Retreat and Women's Retreat with a family campout. If anyone has a specific idea about where or when or anything else, please see Matt and Kim as they are looking for options.

During the second quarter, the posse headed to Gatlinburg and the "College" "Couples" camped with the bear at Red River Gorge. The college and youth groups are still planning on going together to Cedar Point.

Finances
In terms of spending less than we are given, we are even for the first half of the year. We had a surplus in the first quarter and we have consumed that completely in the second quarter. Giving is still strong for the year so I don't foresee us clamping down on spending like we had to in previous years, but it is possible.

Josh Covington and Dan Thurman are doing a great job getting the building back in shape with the cash flow that used to go to the mortgage and here are the things that they have on their list to do this summer:

• Security of the building - Locks need maintenance ( Dan T. has seen children in the building on multiple occasions during the day and we really need to take care of this before someone gets hurt when the building is not supervised by adults )
• Counter tops for Kitchen and Youth Room
• Parking lot - A smooth black surface would be easier for us to shovel and walk on. ( Dan T is going to be experimenting with some black top sealer, if it works he will need some extra backs and elbows to do the whole thing )
• Remodeling Mike's Office.

Building and Grounds:
Look at the kitchen! Josh Covington continues to make his way through the building working on the floors. Even before the last piece of the kitchen renovation is complete, Josh has turned his attention to the bathrooms. He is working with a few people about colors and other improvements for the women's restrooms before he gets started on the walls. In the meantime, he is stripping off wall paper, repairing the plumbing and ventilation and flooring so that the decorating will be able to proceed.

Dan, Josh and I have begun meeting on the first Tuesday of every month so that we can all talk about the week to week activities that we will try to summarize from quarter to quarter.

If you have any questions about the church history, Josh is becoming quite familiar with the design, implementation, maintenance and repair methods that are documented in the dirt and mold in corners of the building. His vantage point as church archeologist is very valuable, but limited. You can understand a people by the things that they make and do, but to really understand a church, you must relate with its life.

Evangelism:
Community Cookouts, Yard Sales and Back Yard Bible Schools are the main activities this year, but more and more I am seeing that the ideas and service that are being distributed in the marketplace and community are so very valuable.

• Can you consider a horse or two in the artwork displayed about our city as the world comes to visit as evangelism?
• Can you consider involvement in the community as evangelism?
• Can you consider exchanging ideas with the world as evangelism?
• Might we even consider sports a platform for evangelizing Life?

On a more traditional definition of evangelism, our streams and missionaries are doing so much it is hard for us to keep up: Abigail, Tim, Linda, Kim, Michael, Joe Joe, Justin, Erica, Mikey, Cindy, Bob, Kim, Rick, Donna

Church Calendar


July--
3 - Administration Meeting
4 - Lord's Supper
6-9 Backyard Bible School
7 - Community Cookout ( Wednesday night )
8,9 - Prepare for yard sale (after 6:00 PM )
10 - Yard Sale ( 8:00 AM to 1:00 PM )
10 - Work Day for Yard --- Bring saws, lopping shears, shovels, hedge trimmers, pickup trucks, rakes
10,11,12 - David Ravenhill ( Park United Methodist )
11-17 B.A.S.I.C. Youth Camp
18 - Church Picnic ( Shelter #5 )
31-Aug1 - Summer fun at Cedar Point ( Youth and College )

Aug--
1 - Lord's Supper
15 - Church Picnic ( Shelter #5 )
20 - potential weekend for family campout

Sep--
5 - Lord's Supper
9-13 - Mancation to Colorado
10-12 - potential weekend for Bob Warren
17-19 - Men's Retreat at Wesley Woods
24-26 - potential weekend for Bob Warren

Oct--
2 - Administration Meeting
3 - Lord's Supper
6,7,8 - potential weekend for family campout
31 - potential weekend for family campout

Nov--
7 - Lord's Supper

Dec--
5 - Lord's Supper