PoG Leadership Team Meeting 7/31/13

The following are notes from tonights meeting:

We reviewed and fine-tuned the proposed mission statement: We are called to express God's love revealed through Jesus Christ by - Listening, embracing and responding to the needs of our community and world; - Stretching and strengthening caring relationships and inspired teachings that span the generations in our congregation; - Nurturing a transformative culture of reflection, encouragement, honesty, openness and inclusivity; - Caring for God's creation through education and conservation.

and came up with the following recommendation with the question of whether to include caring relationship from above. We welcome anyones additional input or changes:

We are called to express Gods love revealed through Jesus Christ by: Listening and responding to the needs of our entire community and world through inspired teachings that span the generations in our congregation; Caring for Gods creation through a transformative culture of reflection, encouragement, education and conservation.

Ministry Developer job description was reviewed and approved as is. Thank you Bill for your work pulling this together! o Pastor Eileen will post the job description on the Synod website, Trinity college, Seattle University of Theology, Seattle School of Theology and Psychology, SPU and PLU o Resume submissions due by September 6th o Leadership team will meet on September 11th to review resumes

www.pointeofgrace.org o Review the new website Pastor Eileen createdcheck it out!

o If you belong to one of the life groups like POG Walkers, Bible Study, POG Ladies - recommend images to Pastor Eileen that are representative of your group/team members

Coins for a Cause in expansion of Living Water, we will be reviewing future submission for programs which need funding (Back Packs for Kids, etc.) Bill will announce the opportunity this Sunday. Future submissions will be given to the Ministry Developer once she/he is in place. Alarm system need to have at least 2 1! volunteer to answer inbounds calls (confirm by early September). Andre Lannertone has agreed to be out 1st point of contact. Develop a system for volunteers to open the church a lock box was recommended and need a location (Rolf/Bill will identify on Sunday, August 4th) Sunday School o proposed a more structured lesson format o we need to set up a schedule of volunteers (2 per week) o ideally we would have 2 classes for younger kids (elementary) and older (junior high) well incorporate music at the beginning of each SS, with Dianne supporting us

August 7th cancelled this meeting since we dont have many outstanding issues August 21st at Carol Loges home: 14406 60th Ave. W, Edmonds 98026; 425-446-2703

Please let me know if you have any questions or if I omitted any points that should be shared from our meeting.

Karin Lannertone