Fair Trade Coffee Project

Present: Laurie Cary, Sam Hare, Wayne MacKeil, AnnElissa Leveque, Carol Scheffler, Greg Wyman

Coffee Buying Club:

General Instructions
Will have two people at the table for the initial offering. Wayne will act as a sub if someone can’t make it. People are to make checks out to the church & should pay for the coffee at time of ordering. We will charge an additional 50cents/bag above the quoted price to help defray cost of coffee hour coffee. Bring calculator & scissors (to cut off receipt). Fill out the receipt at the bottom of the Order Form & return to the “coffee club member”. Bring any extra cloth bags you have to bag coffee on order fill date. Encourage members to bring them back at next coffee fill date. Greg will tabulate & complete order, verifying the correct amount has been collected. Greg will get the funds & copy of the order to Cyndi. & will either place the order or coordinate with Cyndi re ordering.. Carol will find out from Cyndi if the order & money can be slipped under her office door on Sunday afternoon.

Schedule & Duty Roster
First Order Date 4/20 – Greg, Carol
Follow Up Order Date 4/27 – AnnElissa, Carol; AFTER ANNUAL MEETING
Order Fill Date 5/4 or 5/11 (when coffee received) Sam, Wayne

Second Order Date 7/13 – AnnElissa
Follow Up Order Date 7/20 - Greg
Order Fill Date 7/27 – Laurie

Ordering Forms
Will use the order form that has a receipt at the bottom. Carol will modify the form to include the Item Code & make multiple copies for use on 4/20 & 4/27.

Beacon Article
Deadline is 4/17. Since Beacon won’t come out until the week after the first order date (4/20), Carol will notify those folks who signed up of the dates & write an article for the Beacon.

Coffee Hour Coffee

There appears to be only 5 bags of regular & 5 bags of decaf remaining. Greg will check with Tom to be sure there is not more somewhere else and will include in the April order enough to carry us through until July. Carol will find out the beginning & ending dates for the serving of lemonade as this will affect amount of coffee consumption.

Social Witness Potluck

The possibility of participating in a SW Potluck this Spring was discussed. Consensus was that it would be better to hold it in the fall. Laurie will put the scheduling of a SW Potluck in October on the MOT agenda for May 1st. Carol will notify Joan and the other sub-committee heads. AnnElissa asked that it not be scheduled for a Monday or Friday and Carol asked that it not be Friday as that is Elsa’s day off.

Council Feedback Form

Council’s questions were reviewed but the group felt that since we are so new, we have nothing significant to add. Carol will e-mail Dan Cummings.

Adjournment at 7:45PM.