Administration Team Meeting - January 4, 2014

Attendees:
Dan Thurman, Mike Brady, Tony Jones, Glen Perry, Kent Billingsley

Next Meeting:
Saturday, April 12, 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:

H E A L T H


Discipleship
Get plugged into the body by joining one of the following small groups!

• Monday - Men's Prayer group at Wilson's
• Tuesday - Wild/Wild/Westerfield/Wilson/Wilkerson Group 
• Wednesday - River of Life Group
• Thursday - "The Posse" 
• Friday - Jones Group
• Sunday - Youth Group

Mercy
A great deal of our meeting was focused on how we can truly help the community in a healthy way.  For the last decade, we have been meeting individual needs of those that request help and that is helpful; some groceries here, some utility payments there, some transportation from here to there.

What Glen challenged us, was to consider that the gospel was the ultimately helpful power that Tatesbrook is equipped to deploy to the community.

We observed that many community programs are programming isolation.  Isolation works directly against our mission at Tatesbrook to build community upon a true loving relationship where a king left his throne to be with us.  If our ministry to meet individual needs were to grow, we would be programming isolation as well.  God wants to be with us, and he has informed us that he wants us to love each other..  and showed us how...

There are a couple of community programs that we think we can work with to build community in our community..  We are praying about how that can happen.


Roles
I expressed my desire for God to place a burning desire upon the heart of a current or a coming member for Evangelism, Discipleship or Missions.  I believe that is something God wants to develop in our little body.  If God does not place that on any heart, then I stand down and admit that maybe community and leadership is not as important as we say it is.

Kent also shared an important reminder that the Roles are more about the heart of the person than the hands of the person.  As we eagerly look forward to new people in new roles, it is important to make sure that their hearts are in the ministry.  We should not be filling roles that employ task masters to drive the tasks of the historical needs of the body.  Our life is new every morning and so are our needs.  A heart adjusts to those needs.  Muscle memory serves the past.

Worship
Our worship has never been better.  And 2014 looks like a great year to sharpen our tools.  While we paying customers requiring weekly use of the building, it was a little tougher to improve the infrastructure, but now we have the freedom to rebuild a few things.

Finances 
We finished the year spending less than what God entrusted to us.  2013 was also the first year in the last 30 years that we spent more on Giving ( Missions + Mercy ) than we did on the building and grounds.  God clearly is continuing to bless us with provision.   The elders also indicated that they have been praying about increasing our missions giving, but will provide details for those Missions adjustments for 2014 and 2015 at the Celebration.

Building and Grounds
The mysterious quarterly water consumption has disappeared for this quarter.  The world may never know where all that water went.  I consider it a contribution to our city for all the water that they provide to our community.  Dan Thurman presented a list of all the items that were addressed in 2013.   The list was very large, but it was also important to note that it was more focused on maintenance than repair.  We will want to expedite some of the sanctuary repair and improvements in 2014, but outside of that, it looks like we should benefit from Dan's stitches in time during 2013 to save us nine in 2014, 2015, 2016...


Church Calendar

January --
3-5 -- B.A.S.I.C. College Winter Retreat
4 -- Administration Meeting
5 -- Lord's Supper
10,11 -- Leadership Retreat
16 -- Third Thursday Cook-in
17 -- Community Prayer and Ministry
17-19 -- B.A.S.I.C. Youth Winter Retreat
26 -- Celebration

February --
2 -- Lord's Supper
2 -- Super Bowl Sunday
8,9 -- Encounter Weekend  ( Eliminating strongholds that hold us back )
20 -- Third Thursday Cook-in
21 -- Community Prayer and Ministry
21-22 -- B.A.S.I.C.  Truth trumps theology

March --
2 -- Lord's Supper
20 -- Third Thursday Cook-in
21 -- Community Prayer and Ministry
31 -- Fayette County Public Schools Spring Break

April --
6 -- Lord's Supper
6 -- Financial Health #1 ( God owns everything )
12 -- Administration Meeting
12 -- Color Me Rad
13 -- Financial Health #2 ( Give to God cheerfully )
17 -- Third Thursday Cook-in
18 -- Community Prayer and Ministry
20 -- Financial Health #3 ( Sunday Evening )
25-27 -- B.A.S.I.C. Men's Retreat
26 -- Spartan Sprint in Laurel, IN
27 -- Financial Class #4 ( Sunday Evening )
28 -- Memorial Day

May --
4 -- Lord’s Supper
10 -- Work Day ( Clean up the trees, flower beds, picnic tables, grounds for summer of ministry )
11 -- Mother’s Day
15 -- Third Thursday Cook Out
16 -- Community Prayer and Ministry