The meeting was called to order by Richard at 11:55 a.m. followed by a prayer from Stephen.

T’Shala In Care Update:

Last year, T’shala’s position at the Watsonville Community Hospital did not get funded. After working for no pay for a few months, T’shala found a Chaplin in training position at Kaiser Hospital in Santa Clara. She explained that, while the work at Kaiser has been difficult, with a long commute, it has also been rewarding. She also described a number of opportunities that may be opening up soon. She is currently in the process of looking onto and evaluating these new opportunities. This, and her existing obligations have limited her availability, but she will continue help our church, when she can.

The December minutes were then approved.

Assignment of Duties:

We then determined the best time for the next meeting would be after church on 2/10. and Richard proceeded to fill out the assignments for the Sundays through 2/10 below:

Coffee: 1/27 – Richard and Julie; 2/03 – Jennifer and Larry;

2/10 - Richard and Marcia

Sunday (Pulpit)Liturgist :

1/27 (Stephen) Mike

2/3 (Stephen) T’shala

Bread & Juice: Marcia Servers: Ruth, Jennifer, Larry, Marcia

2/10 (Stephen) Moira

2/17(Stephen) Julie

Relationship with Marina Congregation

Since the last meeting Stephen tried to communication with the Marina Congregation without success.

PSR Intern:

Stephen suggested that we might want to consider taking on an intern this fall, since PSR is willing to cover up to ½ of a church’s intern training cost. We then discussed how to ask the congregation whether they would like to have another intern this fall. One option was to bring it up at the Annual meeting. We tabled the motion until Stephen could find out more about the program from PSR. After the meeting Stephen found out that PSR only considers covering part of the intern training costs after a church signs up for an intern. At our meeting we agreed request in our budget only ½ of the funding for an intern in ’09, so we agreed to wait until the next Deacon’s meeting.

Old Business:

Mike presented, as his last action item, a sorting of the existing three Deacon’s task lists organized by task. We agreed to make the resolution of the tasks a goal for next year.

Annual Report

Richard requested that those who had time stay to create the annual report for the annual meeting. I suggested that it would be easier if Richard just wrote it himself. Richard then compiled a list of accomplishments and goals from the Deacons, to be included in the report.

After we thanked Mike, who was leaving the Deacons, and Richard, who was leaving the Chair, Stephen closed with a prayer, and the meeting adjourned at 1:30pm.

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