The meeting was called to order by Richard at 7:30 p.m.

Stephen opened with a prayer.

Richard began the meeting by making a motion to approve the minutes of the last two meetings. Ruth pointed out that she was not a Deacon at the January meeting, still a unanimous vote approved both minutes.

Assignment of Duties:

Richard agreed that future agendas will reflect time for in-care individuals at the beginning of subsequent Deacons meetings, and Larry Cooke agreed to again take the March meeting minutes,

To kick off the Housekeeping tasks, Stephen described his Liturgist training and suggested a few non-Deacons, who participated. Julie agreed to call them, with the results reflected in the assignments below.

Sunday Liturgist Assignments:

3/11: Larry Cooke 3/18: Jan Geist

3/25: Harold Hoyt 4/1: Carolyn

Communion Sunday Servers

Don Law Marcia Rollins

Mike Mahrle Ruth Dawkins

Bread & Juice – Julie Victorine

Because it is so close to the next meeting, Stephen suggested we also begin assigning tasks for Maundy Thursday 4/5/07, and Easter Sunday, with the following assignment:

Maundy Thursday Recruiter – Ruth

Setup – Richard, Larry

Bread/Soup – Larry, Richard, Julie

Communion - TBD from Mike, Don, Richard, Larry, Marcia, etc.

Old Business:

New Member Sunday is scheduled for 5/20.

Stephen said the Thursday night prayer services have been going well, though sparsely attended (about 6+ per service).

He then mentioned that a number of the members who have been sick are doing as well or better than can be expected, and that food was much appreciated by those receiving it.

Following some brief discussion, Stephen went on to the next item, providing the Deacons with the new Phone Tree.

Richard said the Council approved an Intern for the 07/08 budget. After some discussion about the need to look for someone now, considering the travel difficulties for most candidates, it was suggested that Patricia, Kristen and Eileen be notified, to possibly help in the search.

New Business:

Richard then described the Council’s new Vision committee, and the need for a representative from the Deacons. Ruth said she was going as the Pastoral Relations representative, so Larry Cooke agreed to represent the Deacons. The first meeting on 3/11, was an open idea session where specific ideas and goals relating to the general areas defined in the Communication Meetings of ’05 were generated. The next meeting will be on 4/15.

Richard then presented Stephen’s Membership policy. A discussion followed, including Richard’s comment that he was ok with it as a direction. Most thought they were good membership categories. It was suggested that we share it with the Visioning committee. Julie said she appreciated the write up, and suggested those members who have been sick be included in Sunday’s prayers. We then agreed to discuss it further at the next meeting.

Stephen said one of the goals for this year was to bring the Mountain Community and Skyland Church together, and Richard agreed to add it to the agenda for further discussion next month.

It was mentioned we that we should add equipment to take new pictures of the members to this year’s budget, particularly since the wall of pictures is very dated, and incomplete.

Julie mentioned the Sunday School teachers would like more time with the children and wanted to minimize the announcements to reduce the children’s time in the service. Stephen agreed to rearrange the order of the service, allowing the children and teachers to leave immediately after the words for children. As a result in this Sunday’s service we actually put the Announcements after the children left.

Marcia said La Salva, Santa Cruz and Skyland UCC churches were planning a UCC 50th anniversary get together, but July 1st was the only available Sunday. We agreed that it was feasible since the event doesn’t start until 4pm, well after our traditional 4th of July celebration.

The next meeting is scheduled for April 3rd at 7:30.

Following a prayer led by Stephen, the meeting adjourned at 9:10pm.

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