Building Relationships
with People in Christ
January 8, 2018 - 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, Don Pine, Bill
Melewski, Sandy Moore, Linda Schumacher, Don Young and Paul Luce (via speaker
phone)
Also present: Pastor Pat (briefly)
Members absent: Barry Holmes
Bill Melewski opened with a devotional.
1. Minutes of
the December 2017 meeting were approved
2. Financial
Secretary Report
o
Sharon Schroer
had prepared a list of the outstanding bills to be paid and Linda provided the
current bank balance after today's deposit.
It was determined that we currently have enough funds to pay the bills
without transferring any funds.
o
Statements of
2017 giving to BRPC were distributed after worship on January 7 and more will
be given out on January 14. Any
remaining after that will be mailed.
o
Special offering envelopes
(per capita, one great hour, etc.) will be distributed on January 21, 2018.
o
2018 per capita
amount is $43.29
3. Treasurer's
Report (see December 2018 reports in
Drop Box)
o
Paul reviewed
last month's reports with us. There was
nothing unusual in them.
o
The Treasurer's
Report was approved.
o
Paul agreed to be
available via phone by 12:20pm on 1/28 for the Congregational Meeting
o
Paul has agreed
to continue as our Treasurer until we can find someone else to take on these
responsibilities.
o
There was some
later discussion about this. Sandy knows
someone who might be interested but would want to be paid something. Sandy will find out what their fee would be. The suggestion was also made that possibly we
could share someone to do these duties with another church.
4.
2017 Highlights & 2018 Goals for Congregational Meeting Packet
o
2017 Highlights
§ Five people were assisted in furthering their
education by the distribution of $2800.00 from the Joy Scholarship Fund
§ BRPC is current in payment of their per-capita for the
first time in many years. This is thanks
in large part to a very generous ONE-TIME donation to cover the amount due in
excess of the amount we've collected over the years
§ There was an increase in the amount pledged for 2018
in comparison to the amount pledged in 2017.
The committee is convinced that this is due to the academy award worthy
Stewardship Skit:)
o
2018 Goals
§ Increased giving to BRPC to avoid the need to transfer
funds from our savings
§ Increased percentage of members who pay their per-capita to allow us to stay
current in payment of this obligation without having to use general funds
§ Increased giving to the BRPC Endowment Fund
5.
Manual of Operations
o
The committee
discussed Linda Schumacher's questions and proposed changes. Linda will revise the Finance Committee's
portion accordingly and send it to the Finance
6. Old Business
o Sandy reported that the proposed Credit Card Policy
was approved by the Session (see Finance Dec 2017 minutes)
o Sandy also reported that the session approved the
requests by CE for pie sales and the Mission and Outreach dates from our
December meeting
7. New Business
o
We were given
information about the partnership being formed with Zion Grove Missionary Baptist
Church but were told that no financial decisions were needed at this time about
that.
Next meeting FEBRUARY 5 - 6:30 p.m. This is a
change from our usual date due to some scheduling conflicts.
And, everyone said, "AMEN".
Respectfully
submitted,
Linda
Schumacher
