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A. Articles for Newsletter-April Issue

Stephen will write an article on One Great Hour of Sharing

(4/16). Mary Ellen and Jackie will write an article about Global Strategies Sunday (4/23) as well as speaker Bridget Nolan and her work with Dr. Amman in the Congo with HIV prevention.

B. Booklet on Mission Giving

The Booklet describes all the various organizations that receive contributions from Skyland Church. Joseph will contribute an article on New Horizons School. Jackie gave us a first draft of the completed Booklet. Mary Ellen made suggestions on formatting and editing it. We discussed publishing, assembling and distributing it.

C. Global Strategies for HIV Prevention

Joan spoke with Bridget Nolan who has agreed to give a talk about her work in the Congo on Sunday April 23. She has kindly agreed to stay after church for a potluck/discussion. We will ask the deacons as well as the church community for help with the potluck. Ms. Nolan will bring photos/slides/visual aides that can be projected at the potluck.

D. The Mission Board Outreach Calendar

We have a yearly calendar of the Mission Board's various tasks and projects and when they are undertaken during the year. A volunteer referral list for charitable organizations was also created. Both lists will be given to Larry Lopp.

E. Coffee Hour

The Mission Board is responsible for the months of March and April.

New Business

A. There was a discussion as to the best time to put out the tube for the Heifer Project. June was a possibility with consideration given to also putting out the quarters tube during Advent.

B. Plans were made for One Great Hour of Sharing on Sunday, April 16th.The donations at the Maundy Thursday supper as well as the Easter collection will go to OGHS.An article about it will be in the April Newsletter.

C. Jackie spoke about Bread for the World and an appropriate date for our offering of letter writing to support funding for programs that provide food for hungry people in this country and abroad. May 7th held the most potential for writing letters to our representatives in Washington DC as Congress would still be in session.

D. We decided to wait until the next meeting to discuss the monthly activities Calendar update.

E. The date of the next meeting is 7:30PM April 20 at Joan Law's house.

F. Denie Albert resigned from the Mission Board. She will be sorely missed. Fortunately Gina Foster has agreed to be a member and will attend our April 20th meeting. Welcome aboard!

G. Jackie gave each of us a list of board members, phone numbers and email addresses. Thank you.

H. On Sunday, March 19 Stephen will give a sermon on health care. This is a continuation of the series of Lenten sermons inspired by The Left Hand of God by Michael Lerner. In support of a health care initiative for children, Jackie Seymour will have a ballot petition at coffee hour. All members are invited to sign this petition in order to get an equitable health care initiative for children on the November ballot.

I. UCC Share

The Mission Board will discuss the UCC Share budget request at the next meeting.Stephen explained how the name has changed from Our Churches Wider Mission to UCC Share. Stephen will explain both the financial relationship to the UCC as well as the process of submitting the budget to the trustees to those of us on the Mission board who are not familiar with it.

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