Mission and Outreach

Meeting Minutes of June 3, 2010

Attendees: Laurie Cary - Chair, Jan Bosse, Sandy Dyer, Mike Kasputes, Kendra Palmer, Richard Parker, Carol Scheffler, Kristen Silvia, Greg Wyman, Elsa Peters (part time)

OPENING:
Laurie opened the meeting with an original note concerning service and the Mission team. Departing members – Carol Scheffler and Greg Wyman – were thanked for their service; new members – Jan Bosse, Kendra Palmer and Kristen Silvia – were introduced and welcomed.

MAY MINUTES:
Corrections to Minister’s Moment
– “Discipleship” will be the theme for next year’s program for our local church, not for the Conference.
– Micah Project: “…………. Kristen Silvia or Gretchen Reynolds might be ……..”
Minutes approved as corrected.

MINISTER’S MOMENT:
Pride March will be held in Portland June 19th. March is at noon. Meet at 10:30 in Monument Square.
A week long Mission trip in Maine is being planned for next summer (2011).
Elsa’s sabbatical will be in 2012. While she has not finalized her topic, she is considering exploring how churches address justice issues. She welcomes other ideas from the Mission Team.

TREASURER’S REPORT:
Donations for blankets totaled $770. This will be sent directly to Church World Services.
It was decided to add Sweetser to our list of approve charities. Richard will update the list and distribute.
The following payments were approved. Reference Greg’s budget report for additional information and details.
$500 Andover-Newton Theological Seminary
500 Center for Grieving Children
500 Protestant Hospital Ministry
500 Serenity House
500 Shalom House
500 Spurwink Services
500 Sweetser

OLD BUSINESS:
FOOD DRIVE – May’s food drive collected 30 Bags of groceries.

MISSION OUTREACH SEVICE ASSIGNMENT 2010/2011:

HOMECOMING SUNDAY - Assignment pending church Council’s decision if this will take place.

BEACON ANNOUNCEMENTS (Special Offerings)- Maureen Clancy

SPECIAL SUPPORT – MAINE & UCC - Richard Parker. This is a new item and consists of assembling a schedule for distributing payments to our various charities. The initial schedule will be based on 2009/2010 dispersements.

BULLETIN BOARD - Assignment not needed.

MISSION MALL - Carol Scheffler

THANKSGIVING BASKETS - Kendra Palmer

CHRISTMAS GIVING TREE - Jen Hardin and Sandy Dyer

CHRISTMAS MITTEN TREE - Bob and Andrea Morse

MISSION HANDBOOK - Laurie Cary

LONGCREEK YOUTH DEVELOPMETN CENTER BIRTDAY CAKES - Maureen Clancy and Sandy Dyer

MISSION SUNDAY - TBD – see note below

EMERGENCY FOOD PANTRY - Sarah Randall

THE MICAH PROJECT - Gretchen Reynolds – if not willing, Laurie, Kristen or Jan may be interested

CHILDREN’S CLOSET - AnnElissa Leveque

Mission Sunday – The question “Is the Mission Team interested in doing?” was left unanswered. Laurie has discussed with Pastor McCall and the best time would be in Feb 2011.

Mission Mall: Will be held 20 Nov 2010

CHURCH CONTACT LIST: Laurie to revise and distribute to the team.

STRENGTHEN THE CHURCH OFFERING: it has been agreed by Laurie and the Pastors, that no special offering will be held for this cause because of the number of special offerings already taken. However, it may be a candidate for inclusion as one of the areas supported by the Easter or Christmas Offering.