Zion Lutheran Church Council Meeting Minutes

Zion Lutheran Church
Council Meeting Minutes
April 12, 2011

Present: Ward Jones, Gus Schill, Jennie Motheral, Susan McMahon, Kent Bressler, Pastor Mike Williams, Donna Kelley, Tammy Gold, Mike Borchers, John Dennis and Jeannie Hargis. Absent: Jess Erlund, Sara McKeon and Holly Shirley. Guest: Larry Cattean.

Opening Prayer & Devotion: provided by Susan McMahon

President’s Comments: Mike briefly mentioned the new “consent agenda” process and asked that everyone make an effort to turn in reports to Donna in a timely manner in order to assure the new process works effectively.

Vice-President’s Comment: Kent stated he had nothing additional to report.

Pastor’s Comments: Pastor Mike stated he had two letters he would like council to review. One is a letter of support from council and the congregation for the improvement and expansion project at the Children’s Center. The second letter was from Men’s Bible Fellowship which is a group of about 100 men who meet every Monday evening. This group would like to rent Zion’s facilities for a percentage of their donations. Discussion was held. Motion was made by Gus to approve usage of facility to the Men’s Bible Fellowship group. Motion was seconded by Kent with amendment that Pastor will see that leaders of group are trained on security system to assure building is locked and unlocked properly and report back to council with beginning date. Motion carried.

Guest: Mike introduced Larry Cattran. Larry explained that he and his wife moved to Kerrville from California and joined Zion in November of 2010. He stated that after attending the last congregational meeting, he realized that the congregation did not seem to have a Trust Plan. He said he would like to help bring focus to congregational giving. He provided an outlined proposal of a Congregational Trust Fund which would include a perpetual fund and a memorial fund. Larry stated he would be willing to serve on the organizing committee. Discussion was held. Jeannie and Larry are to work together to review the current monies available in the different funds and present to council for discussion at the May meeting.

New Business:

Treasurer’s Report: Jeannie provided review of financial reports. She asked that anyone who has questions or needs something specific to please call her or send email request to her directly and not to Lyndsay.

Consent Agenda: Motion to approve items on the consent agenda was made by Ward. Items included are the Minutes of March 8, 2011, Treasurer’s Report, Children’s Center report, report from Evangelism, Property and Worship & Music. Motion was seconded by Kent. Motion carried. As part of the Evangelism report, Jennie included remarks that members of the congregation had asked her about a new pictorial directory. Jennie has stated that she had not had any volunteers to take on the project. She will discuss with Jerry & Vanda Stowe for their input as they were the primary organizers of the previous directory.

Committee Reports:

Fellowship: Tammy reported that Easter breakfast was planned and asked for council members to serve. She noted that Lenten meals had gone very well.

Parish Ed: Susan noted that she had a few volunteers sign up to be a substitute in the nursery on Sunday’s as needed. But that she was disappointed as only one person signed up as a substitute for Sunday school and three for the summer children’s program.