Diversity Committee

November 16, 2008

Present: Dolores Broberg, Carol Scheffler, Deb Theriault, Leigh Garrett, Joan Carrier, John McCall

The minutes of the previous meeting were approved.

Old Business:
Women in Harmony ad. Deb will revise the ad for use in both the winter and spring concert programs. Leigh will invite Women in Harmony to use our sanctuary for the spring concert. The deadline for the ad is sometime in January.

October Social Witness Ministries (SWM) potluck. Dolores realized that there is an overlap of membership; the same people on various committees are involved with SWM.
The next potluck is on April 26, 2008.

"For the Bible Tells Me So". The DVD has been placed in the library. It is also available at Blockbusters. Kathy will write an article for the Beacon.
"Anyone and Everyone" is another movie that Deb has purchased. Joan said that it could be reserved at the CE library through the inter-library loan system.

New Business: Budget. We have not spent any funds from the budget in 2008.

Clothing Drive for Preble Street Teen Center. 40% of the homeless teens staying in shelters nationwide are LGBT youth. Deb will contact the Teen Center about the possibility of having a clothing drive and will e-mail the committee with the information.

GLSEN request for a donation and an offer to do a presentation. It was decided that we will ask the GLSEN to present a forum after Diversity Sunday.

ONA coalition donation. These funds have been earmarked in the Mission Outreach budget as it has been done in the past.

Diversity Sunday, January 18, 2009. The theme will be who/what is a family? John suggested 4 or 5 brief statements about who/what is a family and 2 or 3 minute vignettes.
• Family – who you love and who loves you.
• John will find a scripture for the day and pass the resources around via e-mail.
• John will brainstorm with Joan and Deb about the service. The committee should e-mail the group with questions and suggestions for the service. Meeting Tuesday December 2 4:30 pm.
• Possibilities for speakers:
1. Dolores will speak to an adoptive adult
2. Single parent
3. Someone who has built a family of unrelated people
4. Foster parent
5. Gay or lesbian parent(s)
Maximum of 3 speakers

Next meeting: January 4 at 11:30 a.m.

Minutes taken by Kathy Cotter