Building Relationships
with People in Christ
October 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,
Bill Melewski, Sandy Moore, Don Pine, Linda Schumacher, & Paul Luce (via
speaker phone)
Also
present: Pastor Ron
Members absent: Barry Holmes and Don Young
Ed Ingram opened with a prayer.
The committee approved Don Pine’s motion to
approve the September minutes.
1. Financial
Secretary Report
o
Linda will be out of town from 10/19 through
10/25. Ed Ingram will put away this
Sunday’s offering. There will be no
posting again until 10/22/08.
o
Linda reported that based on pledging members
who are no longer with us or that have indicated they are not going to be able
to complete their pledge for this year, she projects that we will receive a
minimum of $6771.00 less in pledges
than the total amount pledged and based on others that she is guessing may fall
short, it could be as much as $9291.00 less for 2018
2. Treasurer's Report (see September 2018
reports in Drop Box)
o
Paul reviewed the September financial reports
with the committee
o
There was some discussion of items to be
considered in preparing the 2019 budget.
e.g. based on this year, it appears the budget for property insurance
will need to be increased
3. Stewardship Campaign
o
Schedule was reviewed:
·
10/7 – From the Heart Talk by Bill Melewski –
kudo’s for doing such a fine job!
·
10/14 – From the Heart Talk by Manns
·
10/21 – From the Heart Talk by Justin Urriola
·
10/22 – mail out Stewardship Letter and Pledge
Form – Don Pine has written the letter and Linda made some minor edits -Linda
will prepare 2019 pledge form and send to the committee for their review and
editing
·
10/28 – Skit by Finance Committee – Stacy
Schumacher will make us new props
·
11/4 -Stewardship Sunday
4. Capital Campaign
o
The good news from the Property Committee is
that it appears that the greater part of the cost of repairing the roof will be
covered by insurance due to hail damage in August
o
So, no capital campaign will be proposed at this
time
5. Budget
o
Most of the committees have provided their 2019
budget requests
o
Paul will prepare a budget accordingly
o
Per Personnel Committee’s request, Paul will
provide figures for a possible 1, 2, or 3% increase in staff salaries to be
used as guide for consideration
6. Joy Scholarship Applications
o
We have received applications from four
Heartland Presbytery seminary students.
o
The applications and letters from each applicant
have been emailed to Finance Committee members
o
We will decide who will receive a scholarship at
our November meeting.
7. Per Capita
o
It was decided at our August meeting to send
$2500.00 of our per capita to Presbytery but this had not been done yet
o
Sandy filled out a voucher tonight to have this
check sent to them
Next meeting 630 p.m. on November 12, 2018
Opening Prayer – Bill
Pastor Ron ended our
meeting with a prayer.
Respectfully submitted,
Linda Schumacher
