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
Pastor Pat
closed the meeting with a prayer
Respectfully submitted, Linda
Schumacher