Elder Minutes For 24 October 2011

PRESENT: Doug Joseph, Jack Norman, George Cope, Dave Tinker, Wray Petry, Frank St. John, George Joseph,
ABSENT: Jim Norman


Pastor Cain, Pastor Moore, and Debbie Carey joined the Elders to pray for the needs of the church. 


Debbie Carey provided the administrator’s report:
    > Offering was $30,043
    > Attendance was 685 in the Main Sanctuary
    > First Steps enrolment was up this month.
    > The Force Mains Work will begin next week. Circle Christian entrance will be detoured to the other side while the work is ongoing.
    > We will be having a Veggie-Tales event in the New Year.
    > There has been substantial financial saving because of the new Air Conditioners. 


Debbie exited the meeting at 4:50PM.


There was a motion made by Frank St. John and seconded by Wray Petry to pass the 10/17/2011 minutes. It passed unanimously.


Pastor Cope gave an update on the current Dino status and ruling. 


The Elders discussed the upcoming Finance Council meeting. 


At 5:40, the Finance Council entered the meeting to discuss budget and the current financial state of the church. 


There was significant discussions concerning future activities and planning. 


The FC left the meeting at 7:50.


With no further items, the meeting was adjourned at 8:15PM. 


Submitted by Doug Joseph

Elder Minutes For 17 October 2011

PRESENT: Doug Joseph, Jack Norman, George Cope, Dave Tinker, Wray Petry, Frank St. John
ABSENT: George Joseph, Jim Norman


Pastor Cain, Pastor Moore, and Debbie Carey joined the Elders to pray for the needs of the church. 


Debbie Carey provided the administrator’s report:
> Offering was $27,460
> Attendance was 740 in the main Sanctuary
> Debbie expressed a few concerns that need to be addressed in next year’s budget
> We have been working with Bob Miller for new signage on I-4. Debbie gave an update on where we are and gave the Elders some examples of proposed signage concepts. 


Debbie exited the meeting at 5:15PM.


There was a motion made by Frank St. John and seconded by Jack Norman to pass the 10/10/2011 minutes. It passed unanimously with a pair of minor revisions. 


Pastor Cope gave an update on the current Dino status and ruling. 


There were discussions concerning future activities and planning. 


Frank St. John made a motion that was seconded by Wray Petry that the decision made by the arbitration committee will be followed and executed by Calvary.  


There was a lengthy discussion concerning personal situations in the church.  


The Elders discussed the Budget meeting and the ramifications with our current status.


Pastor Cope discussed future plans and vision for 2012. 


David Tinker shared a ministry that has been on his heart. 


With no further items, the meeting was adjourned at 7:15PM. 


Submitted by Doug Joseph

Elder Minutes For 10 October 2011

PRESENT: Jim Norman, Doug Joseph, Jack Norman, George Cope, Dave Tinker, Wray Petry, George Joseph

ABSENT: Frank St. John, (Dave Tinker has been given his Proxy)

Pastor Cain, Pastor Moore, Pastor Krall, Debbie Carey joined the Elders to pray for the needs of the church.

After a time of prayer, all of the pastors and J Johnston exited the meeting.

Debbie Carey provided the administrator’s report:

>  Offering was $21,281

>  Attendance was 748 in the main Sanctuary

> Rainaldi recommends doing the asphalt in November rather than Dec/Jan time frame (re: force main move)

>  A discussion was held concerning a corporate policy

Debbie exited the meeting at this point (at 4:55PM).

There was a motion made by Jack Norman and seconded by Wray Petry to pass the 10/03/2011 minutes. It passed unanimously.

There were discussions over some issues that came about during Pastor Cope’s absence.

There was a motion made by Jack Norman and seconded by Wray Petry to pass the 10/03/2011 minutes, which was unanimously approved by the remainder of the Elders.  


There were discussions over some issues that occurred during Pastor Cope’s absence. 


At 5:15, Pastor David Evans came in and a discussion was had concerning vision for the coming months. 
The Elders prayed over David. 


Pastor David left at 6:30PM and the elders had further discussion. 

Jim Norman made a move that Debbie Carey will be given the permanent role as Church Administrator. It was seconded by Wray Petry. It passed unanimously.

The Elders were presented with a list of new members and they were approved unanimously.

The issues concerning Dino were again discussed.

 Pastor Cope shared his excitement of the coming vision for 2012. He said that he will discuss this in more detail in the coming weeks.

With no further items, the meeting was adjourned at approximately 7:15PM. 

Submitted By Doug Joseph

Elder Minutes For 3 October 2011

PRESENT: Jim Norman, Dave Tinker, Doug Joseph, Jack Norman, Wray Petry, George Joseph, George Cope

ABSENT: Frank St. John,

Pastor Cain, Pastor Moore, J Johnston, Pastor Krall, Debbie Carey joined the Elders to pray for the needs of the church.

After a time of prayer, all of the pastors exited the meeting.

Debbie Carey provided the administrator’s report:

>  Offering was ~$44.2k

> Rita has transferred $200,000 from several reserve accounts to the operating account.

>  First Steps Preschool and Childcare is reducing staff hours to compensate for the drop in attendance.

Debbie exited the meeting at this point (at 4:45PM).

There was a motion made by Wray Petry and seconded by Jim Norman to pass the 9/26/2011 minutes. It passed unanimously.

Because of Frank St. John’s absence, we decided to table the decision to make Debbie Carrie permanent in her position. All of the elders responded favorably to this decision.

There were discussions concerning Dino’s meeting with Pastor Cope. The Elders have been actively pursuing resolution to this situation.

There were discussions concerning Pastor Cope’s meeting with Dino. The Elders have been actively pursuing resolution to this situation.


The Elders have created a blog that will have an abbreviated version of the minutes which can be accessed at www.CalvaryElders.Blogspot.com.


[10/3/2011] Action Item Doug Joseph

·         Get Debra Farish / Rebecca Darling / Jonathan Hendricker to add this link to our website

·         Possibly discuss how to advertise it so people know it is there

·         Place it in the email that goes to the congregation.

Pastor Cope spent some time sharing about his experiences during the past 60 days. 

With no further items, the meeting was adjourned at approximately 7:15PM.

Submitted by Doug Joseph