Building Relationships with People in Christ

September 14, 2020- Finance Committee Meeting     (H)

 

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

Items to be voted upon or needing discussion by Session – sale of BRPC shirts (see 7 below)

Items for information only – see below –

 Members present - Bill Melewski, Sandy Moore, Linda Schumacher, and Don Young.  Pastor Elizabeth and Paul Luce were also present.

 Members absent – Barry Holmes, Ed Ingram, and Don Pine

 This meeting was held via Zoom.  We missed those who couldn’t be with us.

 1.  Financial Secretary Report

·         Boxes of offering envelopes to be used in 2021 have been ordered and received.  The cost is $87.50 + shipping and handling – final bill has not been received.

 2.August Minutes were approved

 

3.  Treasurer's Report (see August 2020 reports in Drop Box) –

·         Paul reviewed the August reports with the committee.  We are still in OK shape

·         Bank balance dipped below $10,000 last week but with contributions received 9/13, the ACH that will be deposited 9/28 and two more Sundays in September, it was the consensus of the committee we will not transfer any funds from savings at this time.

 

4.  Per Capita

·         $500 payment made in September

·         Current balance is $2,788 due by end of year.

 

5.  2021 Stewardship Campaign

·         Pastor Elizabeth created 2 logos and gave the committee several ideas for bible verses and hymns to be used along with our 2021 Stewardship Theme of “Socially Distanced/Spiritually Connected”

·         Linda made a motion that we use the logo with growing plants and intertwined roots, Scripture - Colossians 2:5; and hymn “We Are One in the Spirit”.

·         Sandy has talked to Barry and he is working on this year’s stewardship letter.  When his draft is complete, he will email it to the Finance Committee for their input.

 

6.   Paul Vance’s BRPC credit card

·          A new Visa credit card came in the mail with Paul's name on it.  Karen made up a letter to Visa canceling that card & Sandy signed the letter.  Card will be returned without being activated.

7.  BRPC T-Shirt and Sweatshirt Sales

·         It has been expressed at various Zoom fellowships and traveling fellowship that some people would like to get a generic BRPC shirt to wear

·         Carol Schumacher has gotten a quote from Classic Awards in Overland Park KS which is owned and operated by a friend of hers and a barbershop acquaintance to several BRPC members.  He is offering us a discount and is not charging any set up costs.

·         Pricing is shown on the attached information sheet and was figured on a minimum of 50 shirts (any combination of those shown).

·         It was the consensus of those at the meeting to recommend that Carol be allowed to pursue getting orders for shirts and to order them with the following stipulations:

o   50 orders are received

o   Payment for shirts is received before placing the order to avoid any funds coming out of the church’s funds

             

             

 

8. Request from Grace Cox Johnson e

·         Grace has asked for a separate $300.00 account to be set up from which she can purchase music

·         It was the consensus of the committee that no additional account is needed since there are several Worship accounts from which music could be purchased as well as two large memorial funds that are designated for music

 

9.  Insurance Renewal

·         The cost for our insurance which includes Property, Liability, Umbrella, and Worker’s Compensation is increasing $733.00 for the year to a total of $12,261.00.

10.  REAP

·         Missions and Outreach Committee has requested that any checks that are sent to the church for REAP be given to their moderator, Marsha Elbasani, before being deposited.

·         From now on, Linda Schumacher will give any checks received for REAP to Marsha so she can fill out an income voucher to accompany any donations received by BRPC for REAP.

·         Linda also informed the committee that a couple of checks had been received in the past 5 months that were made out to “REAP”.  Since the bank does not allow us to “sign over” a check to someone else, Linda mailed those checks directly to REAP.

11.  Online Giving

·         Bill Melewski did extensive research and provided the Finance Committee a cost comparison of twelve Online Giving Programs.  They all average 2.5-3% in transaction fees

·         Bill’s recommendation was that we do not pursue this at this time since depending on how many people might use online banking, the cost/loss of income to the church could be significant

·         No final decision was made.  We will put this on next month’s agenda to discuss again when, hopefully, all of our committee members as well as Pastor Elizabeth (who had to leave our meeting before we were finished) can be present

 

Next meeting will be 1:00 PM on October 12, 2020.  via ZOOM

 

Opening devotional/prayer will be given by Linda Schumacher

 

Respectfully Submitted,     Linda Schumacher

Sandy ended our meeting with a prayer.