Tuesday, August 14, 2018


Building Relationships with People in Christ
August 13, 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, Bill Melewski, Sandy Moore, Don Pine, Linda Schumacher, Don Young  
Also present:  Pastor Ron and Paul Luce (via speaker phone)
Members absent:  Barry Holmes

Don Young opened with a prayer.

1.  Financial Secretary Report
o     After today, no deposits or postings of contributions will be made again until August 30th because Linda Schumacher will be on vacation
o     Linda reported that she needs to order pew envelopes because the only ones we have are in the pews and they are becoming depleted.  So, she plans to order monthly, weekly, and special offering envelopes for 2019 at the same time.  Also, we are down to one box of weekly offering envelopes and there is a minimum order of 25 so the cost of envelopes this year will be more than last year. Don Pine made a motion which was approved to give Linda the authority to call and determine the best price available for what we need.  Linda will consult with Finance Committee Moderator, Sandy Moore, if she needs assistance in deciding what to order.

3.  Treasurer's Report (see July 2018 reports in Drop Box)
o        Paul reviewed the July financial reports with the committee
o        Just as a reminder, we used some of Ann Wiltfang’s Memorial Fund to pay for the expense of Pastor Pat’s farewell events.  This action was approved by the committee via email in July.
o        Property – General Maintenance – Account #54101 – is already more than $4000 over the budgeted amount.  Linda Schumacher will complete an Adjusting Entry form transfer the $4196.78 in acct. # 28612 received from Insurance for roof repair to help defray the deficit in acct. # 54101.  Property Committee will need to either request transfer of funds from one of their other accounts or request memorial funds to cover the rest of this deficit and to have available funds for any other general maintenance that may come up in the remainder of this year.
o        Committee agreed to send $2500.00 to Presbytery to pay a portion of BRPC’s per capita to Heartland Presbytery.  The Committee also discussed the need to continue to strongly encourage everyone to pay their per capita.  Sandy will put a reminder in the newsletter incorporating some of the ideas expressed by the committee…including suggesting that people pay the per capita for someone who is unable to do so since realistically we know that not everyone on our rolls will and can pay their per capita.

4.  Joy Scholarship
o   Christopher Gilbert & Yvonne Atikem were awarded $1000.   each for the fall term.

6.  Capitol Campaign for New Roof
o       Estimate for entire new roof is $55,000.00.   With inflation, it might be $60,000.00 by the time we get it finished
o       Temporary repairs are projected to last for 3 years so the goal would be to raise funds for new roof in that time period.
o       We will combine this campaign with the regular stewardship campaign just like we did with the AV.

7.  Stewardship Campaign
o       Stewardship Sunday will be November 4, 2018
o       We’ll discuss theme and other promotional “activities” at next month’s meeting.  There was some preliminary discussion of tying the entire Stewardship Theme with the need for a new roof.

7.  Endowment Fund  - Don Young asked for ideas to  promote the Endowment Fund at the same time as our monthly birthday celebration during worship.  It was decided to have a slide on the screen in the sanctuary on that Sunday each month reminding everyone to consider donating to the endowment fund on their birthday.  Don will ask some of the slide team to create such a slide.

Next meeting 1:30p.m on September 7, 2018

Pastor Ron ended our meeting with a prayer.


Respectfully submitted,
Linda Schumacher