Education Growth and Fellowship

Meeting Minutes of October 7, 2010

Attendance: Karen Pierce-Souza, Elsa Peters, Jennifer Fetting, Scott Ayer, Tom Hamerski

I. Agenda
A. Updates on Team Responsibilities:
1) Karen updated us on Library and Scholarship. In both cases, things are good and nothing needed for now.
2) Carolyn was unable to attend tonight’s meeting, so we didn’t get an update on the Sunday School, but at least one Sunday School teacher seems to think it’s going well.
3) Elsa gave us her Faith Formation update. We voted on choices for the children’s offering
a. Camp Sunshine
b. Winter Kids
c. Pilgrim Lodge
4) Jen reported that Coffee Hour is going shockingly, amazingly well. People and groups are being wonderful about volunteering and that is great. We’re filled up through Christmas!

B. Other items:
1) Homecoming Sunday
a. None of us had heard any feedback from other people re: the new setup, other than people liked the coffee hour that day.
b. EFG committee liked it better
c. Not sure how it will work next year
2) Nursery – We need those parents who volunteer to help downstairs to do background checks for Safe Church. There is no such list, however, so we need to figure out a good way of identifying these parents and getting the necessary forms to them.
3) Two potential new members of the EFG team visited today, Tom Hamerski and Scott Ayer. Tom is on board (whohoo!) and Scott is thinking about whether he has time and will let us know.