Saturday, May 20, 2017


Building Relationships with People in Christ

May 15, 2017  - Finance Committee Meeting     (H)



Items to be included in Session's consent agenda  -none

Items to be voted upon or needing discussion by Session - none

Items for information only -see below



Members present: Ed Ingram, Bill Melewski, Sandy Moore, Don Pine, Linda Schumacher, and Paul Luce & Pastor Pat (via speaker phone)

Members absent: Barry Holmes, & Don Young



Sandy opened with prayer



v  Endowment Committee

o   No report since Bill’s been out of town and Don Y had hip surgery



v  Financial Secretary Report

o      Linda will be on vacation 7/11-7/26 so no contributions will be posted 7/11 - 7/30.  Paul will keep an eye on the bank balance and notify Sandy if it appears that funds need to be transferred from savings to insure that there is enough in the checking account to pay expenses – particularly payroll.

o     Linda plans to distribute mid-year statements on Sunday, July 2, 2017.





v  Treasurer Report – see report attached

o   Finance Committee approved transferring funds from Lena Martin's undesignated memorial fund to 28101

o   Sandy has a lead on an outside party who might be interested in doing BRPC Treasurer duties.  The committee was in favor of Sandy finding  out what this person would be willing to do and what they would charge

o   It was decided that Paul does not need to post the financial reports on the BRPC website blog



v  2018 Stewardship Campaign -

o   Various theme ideas were shared including:   “Stories of Faith”, “Cross Your Heart”, and “Pony Express”

o   After some discussion, the committee decided to use a heart theme this year with people telling stories “from the heart” about why they love BRPC along with a skit about giving from the heart that Linda had seen online

o   We want to keep the Pony Express as an idea for next year. 



v  Joy Scholarship Requests -  Deadline for applications is June 1

o   Request to use Joy Scholarship Funds to repay student loans was denied.  Ed will communicate this information to the families that made this request

o   It was decided to make it an annual process to create a report of how the Joy Funds have been used each year.

o   Pastor Pat is pursuing whether or not this scholarship money can be used for seminary students who do not belong to our Presbytery

o   Sandy will be sending a personal reminder of the deadline to some of the folks we identified as possibly being qualified for these funds







Next meeting June 12, 2017 - 6:30 p.m.



Pastor Pat closed the meeting with a prayer





Respectfully submitted, Linda Schumacher