Education Growth and Fellowship

Meeting Minutes of November 4, 2010

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

A. Updates on Team Responsibilities
1) Library and Scholarship: Scott reported that Scholarship is fine; not much happening now, since the real work starts in January. Karen reported that she talked to Kathy and the library is also going well; Kathy is trying to get the library weeded out. She’s open to suggestions regarding new books for purchase. The preference is to use local businesses such as Nonesuch books, which the EGF committee fully supports.

2) Sunday School: Carolyn was unable to attend this meeting and, therefore, there was no Sunday School update.

3) Faith Formation: Elsa sent us her update. One concern she brought up was the teenage Sunday School teaching policy, which is outdated and no longer fully applicable to the church. We, as a committee, voted to overturn the current policy and adopt a new guidline: to allow teenagers (who had been through Confirmation) younger than 16 to be able to teach Sunday School classes.

4) Coffee Hour: Jen reported that coffee hour is going wonderfully well; lots of volunteers and enthusiasm and helpful people this fall. Hopefully this continues all year. I think that much of this is due to all the committees and teams volunteering – really going very well.

5) Nursery: Jen reported that we still need a way of informing the nursery parents who volunteer to help in the nursery that they have to fill out Safe Church background check forms. Jen will post a sign; Scott suggested that there also be handouts with information on who to contact to get the sheets, so we’ll do that too.

6) Growth/hospitality: There was an inquirer’s meeting on Oct 26. Karen and Tom helped out with refreshments and chatting up the inquirers. After talking to some of these inquirers, it sounds like overall the night went really well. The new members are being welcomed into the church on Nov. 7. We need to find a photographer. Since Randall Landry (the usual photographer) isn’t able to be there, Jen will bring her camera and Tom will take the pictures.

B. Other really important stuff
1) 2011 budget requests – we decided on our budget requests; Tom
is entering them into a spreadsheet and sending them in to the powers that be.

2) New team member recruitment – we’re putting this on hold for now, since Scott Ayre has agreed to join the EGF team for a year (whohoo!)

3) Upcoming hospitality things for which we need to split up responsibility,
according to my binder
a. Jesus’ birthday – We need to get in touch with some of the parents
of younger children, people who may be willing to help with setup/cleanup for this event at the 5:00 service on Christmas Eve.