The Teams for Closing The Congregation Are Starting Up - and a Revised budget

Tuesday night was a council meeting. Our first one in about 2 months.

At the meeting we worked on a revised budget - pretty much prorating many expenses to end on June 10th and changing some salary since I had an overhaul with my staff this year and changing the ministry teams and the amounts they are given.

We also consolidated our accounts into one checking and one Investment Fund that has money to pay my salary in it. We sold the stocks. We combined all our funds into just a general operating fund.

Then we talked about the ministry teams that were mentioned in the resolution.

With the weekly newsletter I sent out a list of who is on what team and what the duties of the team are.

Team Responsibilities

*Please note:  All teams will report back to council with their recommendations.

Worship:

Plan any special worship services, including Celebration (5/20) and Taking Leave (6/10)

Disbursement:

Determine percentages of where all cash funds will be donated.  (Final vote by congregation)

Holy Things:

Inventory and maintain list of Holy Things.  Plan Open House for Holy Things.  Invite churches to Open House, including contacting Synod for names for any new mission churches that may be in need of Holy Things.  Disbursement of Holy

Things.

Property:

Inventory non-Holy contents of Church.  Decide what is to be discarded.  Prepare for Silent Auction.  Decide what items (even if sold at Silent Auction) must remain in the church building until closing.

Social:

Plan for any remaining social events, including (but not limited to) Celebration Dinner and 81^st Anniversary.

Archive:

Choose representative materials to be archived.  Box and arrange for delivery to District Archives.  Disburse balance of items.

Mission:

Decide on where weekly tithes will be disbursed.  (Not limited to current recipients).