Stephen began the meeting with a prayer.

Gina and Stephen gave an update from the Vision committee on their work:

Green Priorities:

Recycle Kitchen waste

Photovoltaic cells on roof

Tankless hot water

Become a certified green business with Santa Cruz county (in process)

Outreach priorities;

Institutional feeling—need to make more inviting.

Outreach to other churches—May 5th—meet at Mormon Church; at 9:00

Outreach to community:

3 movie nights, involve youth

Continue providing food

Continue to support Heifer

Summer Art camp—in Process—

Youth priorities

Nursery space

Be ready to accommodate new children

Spiritual growth

Short series of Bible Study—two or three times a year.

Other:

Youth music—needed, like the Christian Stations

Jeremy says the glue that ties the church together is the women.

Need to present to congregation the concept of two-deep leadership in children.

We may need youth help or parent help.

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Jan Swayne is looking into new Sunday school chairs. Jan Suggests we buy a table and two chairs have a leaf. Council decided they need to talk to religious education committee about these things.

Gina wants to put movies in MNN—one per month, Friday nights—free movie. Advertisement banner was proposed for bridge or at little store. Another suggestion is to have free popcorn. Jan moved, Nancy jo second that we show “Charlottes Web”. After discussion, the vote was unanimous for doing so. John Gaffney is working on that on a better sound system for Whitaker Hall. We need a video projector that can work with computer or dvd player. A Contact book for where we keep diff objects was proposed. Gina will send her committee’s recommendations to those who would be interested by email per committees.

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Update from the Pledge Committee on progress.

Gerry and Don report that Pledges –are at 39 responses $96,000. Compared to last year it is much the same. Strategy is not working as well as we had hoped. What to do?—wait. Financial status –June 6-march ytd 07, pledges on target. Offerings as expected. Most Disbursements are under budget except trustees nonutility. We should have a positive cash flow by end of the fiscal year.

Latest correction /additions to our Organization list.

Skyland Church Council, Committees & Boards for 2007

Moderator (Larry Lopp)

Vice Moderator Gina Wetherill

Clerk Del Mahrle

Treasurer+ Gerry Alonzo

Asst. Treasurer+ Jan Swayne

Auditor (Jim Bowen)

Delegates Larry Lopp Patricia Wood

Youth Delegate Julia Selfridge

Alternates Jan Swayne Jackie Seymour

Term ending 2009 2008 2007

Trustees Brian Wood* Bob Fohl Bruce Victorine

(Maire Howard) Jim Bowen Fern Thompson

___________ Wes Smith Phillippa Siersema

Deacons Marcia Rollins Jennifer Busam* Don Law

Ruth Dawkins Richard Lyness* Julie Victorine

David Cooke Larry Cooke Mike Mahrle

Religious Pam Nates Jeremy Cole (Holly Reed)*

Education ___________ Will Clark Lea Fairweather

___________ Kim Gautho Kim Cunningham

Sherrie Starkie

Missions Nancy Jo Lopp TShala Olivieri

(Jackie Seymour)* Ann Evans

(ME McTamaney)

Harold Hoyt (Joan Law)

Music & Arts Joyce Haworth

(C. Schwabecher) (Brenda Jatho)

(John Gaffney)*

(Paula Leary)

Patricia Wood

Pastoral Don Law M E McTamaney*

Relations (Ruth Dawkins) Kristen Pratt

Endowment Larry Cooke Jay Jatho John Heyes

Chairman: Future Present Past

10K Run __________ Paula Leary/Lynn Nixon Paula Leary/Gina Wetherill

Harvest Festival ___________ Peggy Johnson/ Jim Bowen Terence Leary

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+ Positions without term limitations, * - 2007 Chair

( ) Parentheses indicate in 2nd term,

Committee Chairs Share:

1. Women’s group proposes that we start work on the women’s bathroom, as well as the finishing the wheelchair ramp

2. Deacons met with two youth interested in the youth minister position. They will come to a meeting with Stephen and the deacons. The council will meet when deacons have made a recommendation. Deacons will meet next week

3. Pastoral Relations finished gathering evaluations of Stephen. Will meet with Stephen then will give a report to congregation.

4. Women’s Group—two more meetings. Soap making is the last event to be sponsored. Considering women’s bathroom. Women’s clothing will be sold at Harvest Festival. They will be stored at Del’s Mahrle’s house after they are sorted.

It was proposed that Lou McTamaney be elected to the Trustees. Richard moved, Gerry seconded that he be so elected. After discussion the council voted unanimously to do this.

The Harvest Festival sorting project was presented. Some ideas were suggested to make sorting easier. We need a place to store donated items and we also need to “get the garage back”. Harvest festival is filling it much of the time. Need to rent temp storage space for storage, and erect a tent near to it for sorting. This system would be more secure than the former system. Larry will take this on. He estimates it will cost a few hundred dollars. We also want to build affiliations so that we are not just taking left-overs to the dump. We need to have someone for each category to make sure so they can be recycled. Sometime in June or July, we will go through the garage and get organized, for better storage. It was proposed that we could sell items on “Craig’s list” and donate the money.

Discussion :

Should we appoint monitors for:

1. A person to note what needs doing, outside and inside.. (fix it box)

2. A person to call

3. A person who is designated to fix it.

We need to think about this.

What would be their term and duties?

Which committees should they come from?

Larry will send this to the trustees.

Larry suggests it is time to activate the Memorial Committee. We need to check by-laws to find out what to do with the memorial funds. It would be nice if we could get the new chairs from that source. We need to contact the donators. Nancy Jo, Richard and Larry will work to figure this out.

After discussion about how to streamline the operation of the council, Stephen led the closing prayer.

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