The meeting was called to order by Richard at 12:10 a.m.

Following a prayer by Stephen, the November Minutes were discussed and approved with a change to duties and Mike’s presence at the meeting.

Assignment of Duties:

Mike and Larry agreed to look into getting a gift for Stephen. Marcia and Jennifer agreed to share the Chair for ’08. Mike agreed to put the various descriptions of Deacon’s duties together into one document for the next meeting. Julie agreed to take down the greens after 1/6. Richard noted that the Deacons have coffee duty January through March, and Jennifer mentioned that it works better with two people per Sunday.

We then determined the best time for the next meeting would be after church on 1/13. and Richard proceeded to fill out the assignments for the Sundays through 1/13 below:

Coffee: 1/6 – Jennifer and Marcia; 1/13 – Richard and Ruth

Stephen also pointed out that we need 4 readers and 4 ushers for the Christmas Service.

We agreed as follows:

Ushers: Don, Richard, Larry, Moria Readers: Moria, Larry Richard Ruth

Sunday (Pulpit)Liturgist [Advent]:

12/16 (Stephen) Moira [Marcia]

12/23 (Stephen) _ [Ruth, Jennifer]

12/30 (Stephen)

1/6:(Stephen) Carolyn Bread/Juice: Jennifer

Servers: Don, Jennifer, Mike, Marcia

1/13(?) Stephen

Budget

Larry presented a proposed budget, which the Meeting amended as follows:

06/07 07/08 06/07 07/08

Deacons Actual Plan Actual Plan

Conferences

Copying 80 100 100

Postage

Publishing 36 100 100

Supplies 100 200 105 150

Gifts & Flowers 736 400 360 500

Pastoral Sub 150 600 300 600

Seminarian 1200 4050 2000

Total 1102 2600 4815 3450

Music Director Raise: 2.6%

Other Business:

The latest version of the membership guidelines were discussed and approved.

Don presented a Draft Mission Statement, which he agreed to merge with the existing duties in the church bylaws for discussion at the next meeting. After some discussion about what should be done to recognize John Anderson’s service to the church, there was a proposal to request the Memorial committee set up a memorial fund in recognition of John Anderson. We also discussed the need for a Deacon of the Day for each Sunday. This individual would be responsible to invite guests and visitors to coffee. We agreed to add this to normal assignment of duties in the future. For the next month the assignments are: 12/16: Don, 12/23: Ruth, 12/30: Larry, 1/6: Julie

The next meeting will be after church on January 20th.

Following a closing prayer, the meeting adjourned at 1:30pm.

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