Claim these Items by November 18th

LCF and Mars Hill made a significant contribution to the clutter clean up this week. On Monday, after Mars Hill was finished, they cleaned out their locked closet. A great deal of the contents that they were able to throw away were old, valueless things from Tatesbrook in the back of the closet where moth and rust destroy.

But in this case, it was mold and mildew... While cleaning and prepping to paint, LCF found water damage. I'm pretty sure the source of the problem is the elbow on the downspout on that side of the building.

Kara was also able to clean the kitchen ( and reorganize it, of course ). It looks great. Ladies, you need to check this out.

Since this is mostly Tatesbrook stuff and LCF has already approved it going out the door, I'm going to suggest that the Brother's move it directly to Herbies after the Brother's meeting this morning.

I really don't want to miss next week's trash pickup, because we will need the Herbies for the following week when we clean out the Sound Room.

Progress towards Cleanliness

Kara combined weeks 5 and 6 this week and will be filling the week 6 slot by working with Billy to rearrange the Kitchen, LCF Storage and Coffee Shop Storage so that the chairs can be stored near the fellowship hall.

Completed:
Summer - Two full dumpsters plus 6 Herbies per week or so plus overflow at times.

Week 0 - Extra clutter removal throughout the building to prepare for the debate on Oct 16th ( 7 Herbies plus overflow thrown away on 12th )
Week 1 - Sanctuary Closets / Mike's Office ( 6 Herbies thrown away on 19th )
Week 2 - Mike's Office / Supply Closets ( 4 Herbies thrown away on 27th )
Week 3 - Bookstore ( 6 Herbies thrown away on Nov 2nd )
Week 4 - Supplies / Kitchen Closets ( 7 Herbies, lots of paint and other overflow thrown away on Nov 9th)
Week 5 - Bathroom / Closet in front of fellowship hall / Classrooms ( to be thrown away on Nov 16th )

Proposed:
Week 6 - Tatesbrook junk out of unlocked LCF Storage ( to be thrown away on Nov 16th [no waiting period] )
Week 7 - Sound Room Closet ( to be thrown away on Nov 30th )
Week 8 – Please provide input to Kevin ( to be thrown away on Dec 7th )
Week 9 – Please provide input to Kevin ( to be thrown away on Dec 14th )

Claim these Items by November 16th

After cleaning out the 4 & 5 year old room and recleaning some other areas, Kara only came up with a filing cabinet and a storage tub as items to be claimed by November 16th.

It appears that we are seeing the light at the end of the tunnel!

For next week, we will be removing the chairs from the hallway. Kara and Billy are working on a plan to move the chairs to one of LCF's storage areas near the fellowship hall.

There are two carts holding chairs that can fit on one cart so throwing away one cart is a definite goal of mine. Throwing things away is a lot easier than finding storage places in our constrained space.

Progress towards Cleanliness

Kara's injury did not slow her down much, so we replaced the week 4 schedule break with a cleanup of the supplies closets for the kitchen and the cleaning. She is making tremendous progress.

Completed:
Summer - Two full dumpsters plus 6 Herbies per week or so plus overflow at times.

Week 0 - Extra clutter removal throughout the building to prepare for the debate on Oct 16th ( 7 Herbies plus overflow thrown away on 12th )
Week 1 - Sanctuary Closets / Mike's Office ( 6 Herbies thrown away on 19th )
Week 2 - Mike's Office / Supply Closets ( 4 Herbies thrown away on 27th )
Week 3 - Bookstore ( 6 Herbies thrown away on Nov 2nd )
Week 4 - Supplies / Kitchen Closets ( to be thrown away on Nov 9th)

Proposed:
Week 5 - Bathroom / Closet in front of fellowship hall ( to be thrown away on Nov 16th )
Week 6 - Classroom clutter on floor/cabinets ( to be thrown away on Nov 23rd )
Week 7 - Sound Room Closet ( to be thrown away on Nov 30th )
Week 8 – Please provide input to Kevin ( to be thrown away on Dec 7th )
Week 9 – Please provide input to Kevin ( to be thrown away on Dec 14th )

Claim these Items by November 9th

Kara went through the cleaning and kitchen supply rooms and the mop room and has moved all of the paint and maintenance items to the lost and found area at the end of the hall.


On November 9th, she will fill all the paint cans with kitty litter and take them to the curb.


In my 17 years at Tatesbrook, I have never seen the supply closets so organized and clutter free. There are a few electrical items that may be valuable so you may want to look through the clutter this week.


We have been given some more red stackable chairs so we may be able to get rid of the metal chairs on bulky racks that seem to live in the hall lately.

Sanctuary Allocation

Fellowship Hall Allocation

Education Wing Allocation

In recent walk throughs of the building with Kara and with LCF, it has become clear that there needs to be a map of ownership of areas of the building. After much discussion, this is what we believe is the current ownership of the areas in the Education wing for 2006.

Mortgage Reduction Report

As we begin to discuss the 2007 Budget, I thought it would be good to update everyone on our progress toward our goal of debt elimination. As you may recall, at the beginning of 2006, we had hoped to make extra payments to reduce the mortgage at an aggressive rate that would allow us to achieve our goal in late 2008. At times this year, we were on that pace, but after the completion of three quarters, we have dropped our pace back to the rate of 2005.

The current projection of debt elimination at this slower pace is mid-2009.

Claim these Items by November 2nd

GOOD NEWS!

We are down to one shelf of clutter for this week! That means we can eliminate a clutter collecting table from the hall next week!

The pictured items are headed toward Good Will or the curb on November 2nd.

Progress towards Cleanliness

Due to an injury, Kara will be taking it easy this week if she works at all, so I have moved the schedule back one week.

James Davis, Kent Pittard, Gregg Greer and I walked through the entire building this morning as well. After the walk through, we decided to move the Sound Room Closet to later in the month so that LCF and Tatesbrook can remove some of the clutter before Kara gets to it.

Completed:
Summer - Two full dumpsters plus 6 Herbies per week or so plus overflow at times.

Week 0 - Extra clutter removal throughout the building to prepare for the debate on Oct 16th ( 7 Herbies plus overflow thrown away on 12th )
Week 1 - Sanctuary Closets / Mike's Office ( 6 Herbies thrown away on 19th )
Week 2 - Mike's Office / Supply Closets ( 4 Herbies thrown away on 27th )
Week 3 - Bookstore ( to be thrown away on Nov 2nd )

Proposed:
Week 4 - Break
Week 5 - Bathroom / Closet in front of fellowship hall ( to be thrown away on Nov 16th )
Week 6 - Classroom clutter on floor/cabinets ( to be thrown away on Nov 23rd )
Week 7 - Sound Room Closet ( to be thrown away on Nov 30th )
Week 8 – Please provide input to Kevin ( to be thrown away on Dec 7th )
Week 9 – Please provide input to Kevin ( to be thrown away on Dec 14th )

Administration Meeting Minutes - October 28, 2006

Attendees:
Mike Brady, James Davis

Next Meeting:
Saturday, December 2, 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:

Finances:
Balances are lower than normal, but no concerns. It is now time to be thinking about the Budget for 2007. Please make Dan, Mike and Kevin aware of any ministries that will need financial resources in 2007. Mike suggested that we set up another Biblical Financial Principles class soon for some of the folks that have recently joined the church.

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.

• Maintaining a list of small repairs around the building ( need volunteer )
• Mercy administrator ( need volunteer )
• Maintain a rack of pamphlets in the bookstore (see Mike if you are interested)

Building: ( Kevin/James for Donovan )
Windows remain the top priority. LCF suggested sliding windows with screens instead of crank windows. We also added a few new items to the list.

• A few windows in rear of building at dangerous point of falling out
• Need to repair drywall and paint in entry way.
• Plumber: Repair the outside faucet in the rear of the building
• Plumber: Repair the leaking faucet in the upstairs men's restroom
• Plumber: Repair baptistry heater ( water heater or jacuzzi heater instead of current system)
• HVAC ( Install air return for the sanctuary, Ventilation for Sound room for equipment, workers and most importantly the thermostat )
• Lighting: Sanctuary and foyer
• Remove brick mail box - replace with a normal mailbox in one of the community's cluster of mail boxes. Safer for drivers pulling out of driveway, elimination of an eye-sore.
• Need to rebuild shed or tear it down ( need communication with users and neighbors )

A few work items that occured during October:

• Repair of Thermostat in back section of education wing (Thanks Billy)
• Stripped and waxed floors ( Thanks Tim )
• Removal of clutter ( Thanks to all, especially Kara )

Youth: ( Matt )
No report this month, Matt in Texas for his grandmother's funeral.

College: ( Mike for Josh/Kent )
Kent has a vision for college ministries in homes of Tatesbrookian's. Someone that can understand that college students stay up late... and minister to each other best at that time.

Calendar
We added the following dates to the church calendar:
November 12: Thanksgiving Dinner ( Pot blessed meal )

Main Church Calendar

November--
5- Lord's Supper
12 - Thanksgiving Meal after church
18- Brother's meeting

December--
2 - Administration meeting
3 - Lord's Supper
16 - Brother's meeting
17 - Christmas Caroling

Brothers Meeting Minutes - Oct 21, 2006

Attendees:
Dr. Scott, Paul Baker, Duane Keaton, Fred McKinney, Tony Jones, Mike Brady

Next Meeting: November 18th ( 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:

Brothers testified as to what God is doing with the various challenges we face in life:

Tim:

• "Blue Like Jazz" - Story of Ron Rabbit chasing a carrot all his life, then....
• "Forgotten Children" - Story of children ripped from families, trained as warriors in Uganda
• Confirmed River of Life plans to build at least one well in Africa ( .., I'll be, It is .., Make me ..)

Tony:

• lots of schoolwork
• naming of gray hairs in his beard
• 22 girls over for Abby's slumber party

Duane:

• Duane's nephew, Andrew Morgan left for Iraq yesterday. His wife and child live in Texas.
• Asked about the purpose of the Brother's meeting as it relates to the direction of the church. Discussion ensued:
  1) Weekly Prayer on Monday ( corporate meeting with God )
  2) Monthly Brothers Meeting ( corporate meeting with each other )
  3) Monthly Administration Meeting ( dealing with physical, administration needs )
• Prayer is the backbone of all the ministries. It places our focus on Christ.

Mike:

• Reminded everyone to pray for Paul Wilkerson
• Up late with friends from out of town after attending Lafayette/Henry Clay football game
• Returned to the house to put his guest to work

Kevin:

• Encouraged about God's work in the community
• Plea for brothers to provide feedback to Mike & Dan
• Requested prayer covering for our ministers dealing with youth

Fred:

• Good to be on fall break
• Enjoying life in Missouri
• Delivered HTML of church website on CD
• Officially established as a Tatesbrook Stream

Paul:

• Relating to Carmen's 15th birthday, Paul shared of his childhood experience of stealing his grandmother's car before he had his license and being chased down by the police.
• Sunday School has boosted the worship service:
  1) Prepares the people for worship
  2) Reinforces the message ( many times it is the same message )
• Paul votes for Sunday School to continue after these topics are complete

Grace and Peace,
Kevin

Strip and Wax Floors

Tim Padget will be stripping and waxing the floors in the fellowship hall on Friday, October 27.

He has reserved the church from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM.

The floors will ready for use by 5:00 PM for the coffee shop that evening.

Tim will also be providing the church with a few industrial grade vacuum cleaners that are still in good condition, so there will likely be a few old residential grade vacuums appearing in the clutter pile for November 2nd.

All vacuums should be labeled as to where they are to be used, who they belong to, and where they are to be stored.

Plans for progress toward Cleanliness

In an effort to help people know when the clutter was collected and removed from the building, I have taken pictures of what we are throwing out as we go.

If you are missing something valuable, please check the lost and found area first... to see if you can rescue it.

If it is not in the lost and found area, then please check the pictures on the following website:
Cleanliness

Our intent is not to throw away anything valuable to anyone. Our intent is to provide a clean and safe environment for all users of the building. As you attempt to clean up the clutter, I would encourage you to continue to use the shed as a temporary staging area as the clutter moves toward the trash, but please be aware that it is also a very unsafe place that will need to be torn down in the not too distant future.

As you prepare to remove clutter, please be considerate of others and do not simply move it to other areas of the building as a shortcut.

Kara is working with me to choose the next areas to address, so please provide me with any input about areas that you feel are off limits. Right now, our plans are to proceed as follows:

Completed:
Summer - Two full dumpsters plus 6 Herbies per week or so plus overflow at times.

Week 0 - Extra clutter removal throughout the building to prepare for the debate on Oct 16th ( Seven Herbies full plus overflow thrown away on 12th )
Week 1 - Sanctuary Closets / Mike's Office ( 6 Herbies full thrown away on 19th )
Week 2 - Mike's Office / Supply Closets ( to be thrown away on 27th )

Proposed:
Week 3 - Bookstore ( to be thrown away on Nov 2nd )
Week 4 - Sound Room Closet ( to be thrown away on Nov 7th )
Week 5 - Classroom clutter on floor ( to be thrown away on Nov 16th )
Week 6 - Bathroom / Closet in front of fellowship hall ( to be thrown away on Nov 23th )
Week 7 – Please provide input to Kevin ( to be thrown away on Nov 30th )
Week 8 – Please provide input to Kevin ( to be thrown away on Dec 7th )

Communication is a key to this being successful. Please let me know if there is anything we can do better!

Claim these items by October 27th

Kara has cleaned out the first week of clutter and left the table for the second week. This set of clutter came from the two supply closets in the back of the fellowship hall.

Some really encouraging observations so far:
1) Kara is making good progress toward being able to clean
2) LCF spent time last Thursday to clear out a few things from the hall and stairs before Kara got to them. This will take a few weeks off of the total time to clean the place up. Thanks!

Claim these Items by October 19th

Lost & Found






Please claim these items by October 19th before they are taken to GoodWill!

There is a new Sheriff in Town

Carol Davis has found a very special person to fill the cleaning role that we have been looking for. This is a great answer to prayer. The search took on a higher priority after two different users of the building complained about the cleanliness over the summer.

Carol and I took Kara through the building to show her the ropes and she was stunned at the clutter. She will be working two days a week until she gets the place in shape, and then will go down to one day.



She is starting with the sanctuary this week.


She will be moving on Mike's office and the Tatesbrook Sound Closet the following two weeks. ( October 16 - 27 )

In November, she will be moving to the fellowship hall, kitchen, stairways and the classrooms.



Kara is a pastor's daughter so she understands the needs of a church body. She is also aware of the sensitivity involved in dealing with other people's things, but none of the members of the church bodies that share the building want her to be moving things around in order to be able to clean.

If this table belongs to you, please take it home. We will be taking it to the street soon, tables do not belong in the hallway.

The pictures in this blog are the "Before Kara" pictures. I'm looking forward to seeing the "After Kara" pictures in 2007.

This final picture is a picture of the designated "Lost and Found". I don't believe any of it is "Lost and Found", so Kara will be cleaning this off. If the item looks valuable to Goodwill, she will take it there, otherwise it is headed for the trash.

Administration Meeting Minutes - September 23, 2006

Attendees:
Matt Hind, Kim Hind, Dan Leahy, Donovan Lakes, James Davis

Next Meeting:
Saturday, October 28, 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:

Finances:
Not much to discuss this month. No unusual expenses. Offerings are modest.

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.

• 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/Kevin )
Windows are the top priority now that the steeple is repaired. We also added a few new items to the list.

• Need to repair drywall and paint in entry way now that steeple is repaired. ( Entry way is dry this morning! )
• A few windows in rear of building at dangerous point of falling out
• Repair the plumbing leading to the outside faucet in the rear of the building
• HVAC ( Install air return for the sanctuary, Fix second upstairs thermostat for youth room, Ventilation for Sound room for equipment, workers and most importantly the thermostat )
• Remove brick mail box - replace with a normal mailbox in one of the community's cluster of mail boxes. Safer for drivers pulling out of driveway, elimination of an eye-sore.
• Baptistry is in need of cleaning and repair
• Need to rebuild shed or tear it down ( need communication with users and neighbors )

A few work items that occured during September:

• Trailers and cars have been cleared from the backyard and parking lot! (Good Work)
• Parking Lot stripe painting has finished ( Thanks Theresa )
• Removal of LCF storage ( Thanks Kent )
• Repair of the Steeple ( Thanks Donovan & James )

Youth: ( Matt )
No report this month, meeting pre-empted to help Mike.

College: ( Josh )
No report this month

Calendar
We added the following dates to the church calendar:
Oct 6- Fifth Quarter after Henry Clay (@ Henry Clay)

Main Church Calendar

September--
24- Paul Wilkerson Testimony
29-Oct 1 - Youth campout

October--
1- Lord's Supper
6- Fifth Quarter (after Henry Clay)
13- Fifth Quarter (after Scott County)
11- Mayoral Debate at Tatesbrook
11- Church Planter from India at Living Hope Fellowship
20-22 Bob's Fall Retreat
21- Brother's meeting
27- Fifth Quarter (after Woodford County)
28- Administration meeting

November--
5- Lord's Supper
21- Brother's meeting
28- Administration meeting

December--

New missionary called from Street ministry

Many of you know that we have supported Jeff and Tonda Street and their family as they minister to the French speaking communities throughout Quebec and in their summer mission projects around the world.

I received the following email from Jeff and thought I would pass it along to all of you so that you know that God is at work in the missions we are supporting and so that you can pray specifically for Christina.


Greetings from Quebec!
I want to thank each of you for your continued prayers for our ministry and take a few minutes to tell you more about one of the young people from our youth group.

Below you’ll see a picture of Christina. She is 19 years old. She is the youngest of 5 children from a christian family, however the 3 oldest children are not believers.

It has been exciting to see how Christina has grown spiritually over the years. We met her when we came to Quebec in 1997 to start learning French. She was a member of our first youth group and participated in our first overseas trip in 2000 (to the France & The Czech Republic). It was during this trip while distributing copies of the “Jesus” film and inviting children to attend our VBS in Toulouse, France that she was attacked by a muslim teenage girl who kicked her in the stomach. I’ll never forget as I walked her away, crying, from where she’d been kicked I asked her, “Are you ok?” Her response? “Yes, I’m not crying because I’m hurt; I’m crying because I want to hit that girl back, but I know that’s not what God would want me to do!” Later that day the same muslim girl returned and asked our group for a copy of the “Jesus” film. I’m convinced that that girl had already seen a little bit of Jesus in Christina and wanted to see more.

After finishing high school in in 2003 we helped Christina organize a year in Brazil to attend the Word of Life Bible Institute in Belem. While there, God did great things in her life, including calling her to full-time missions. Today she is going to college back here in Quebec City and preparing for how God will lead her into full-time ministry. She is also our most faithful attendee at our monthly prayer meeting for world missions.

Please pray for her as she goes about her studies here. Her older siblings discourage her from serving the Lord and the vast majority of her college professors are atheists and antagonistic towards spiritual things. Also, please pray for her ministry in her local church as she is heavily involved in the children’s ministry. Lastly, please pray for direction to where the Lord wants her to minister in full-time missions.

Thanks for your participation in Christina’s life!

Blessings!
Jeff (& Tonda) Street