Building Relationships with People in Christ

October 12, 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 – none

Items for information only – see below –

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

 Members absent – Barry Holmes

 This meeting was held via Zoom.

 1.  Financial Secretary Report

·         Boxes of offering envelopes to be used in 2021 have been received.  The cost was $110.25

 2.  September Minutes were approved

 

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

·         Paul reviewed the September reports with the committee.

·         For the most part, lower expenses are still balancing out our lower income, so we still haven’t had to transfer any funds from savings

·         We are fortunate that so many of our members have been able to continue to support our church

·         Treasurer’s reports were approved for review

 

4.  Per Capita

·         $1000.00 payment was made recently which leaves a little over $1700.00

 

5.  2021 Stewardship Campaign

·         Pastor Elizabeth will be preaching a four Sunday stewardship series on 10/18, 10/25, 11/1, and 11/8. 

o   11/1 is All Saints Day so that will be most of the focus, but stewardship will be included in the service

o   11/8 will be pledge Sunday.  We are hoping this will be an in-person service

·         Also, on each of those Sundays, a BRPC member will be asked to  give a 2-5 minute stewardship moment answering the question "How have you experienced BRPC this year to be socially distanced - spiritually connected, and why are you choosing to pledge in 2021?"  

o   Linda Schumacher will make a video for 10/18

o   The Finance Committee made some suggestions of people for the other Sundays.  Pastor Elizabeth will contact them to see if they are willing/able

·         Barry Holmes composed a wonderful stewardship letter which has been approved by a grateful Finance Committee

o   Linda S will add the church logo, etc and mail it along with the pledge form for 2021 on or about 10/28

6.  BRPC T-Shirt and Sweatshirt Sales

·      This endeavor was approved by the Session and is currently ongoing.

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7. Request from Grace Cox Johnson

·         This request had been resolved

 

8.  Online Giving

·         After another discussion on this, it was the consensus of those present to consider this again in 6 months

o   At that time, we can review the options and our circumstances

 

Next meeting will be 1:00 PM on November 9, 2020.  via ZOOM

 

Opening devotional/prayer will be given by Ed Ingram

 

Respectfully Submitted,     Linda Schumacher

Pastor Elizabeth ended our meeting with a prayer.