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Executive Committee Meeting ~ February 2003In attendance: Committee Members: Pam Newland, Moderator; Susi McCall, Secretary; Ida Hardy, CWF Region President; Linda Dealy, CWF; Larry Crist, Region Minister; Marjorie Johnson, Valley CC; Lorraine Stevens, Valley CC; Ken Stamper, Treasurer; Jean Stubbs, UCC; Peggy Hill, Idaho Falls FCC; Gary Allen, Nurture Division; Brian Elliott, Ontario FCC; Gary Smith, Mission Division; Connie Day, Vice-Moderator; Leman Messley, Disciples Men. Pam Newland opened the meeting with prayer at 7:20 PM. Snake River Academy – Fishing in the Real World - Connie Day - Chair Worship & workshops will take place. There will be four workshops that each person may attend two. The four workshops will be: *For Fellowship (children, youth, senior, Bible, parenting) – Connie Day coordinator *For Worship (Contemporary vs. Traditional, praise bands, style, alternative times) – Gary Allen coordinator *For How we look (Property, building and public presence) – Roger Bray coordinator *For who we are (Disciples of Christ) – Gary Smith Coordinator March 1, 2003, at Valley Christian Church in Twin Falls Schedule: 9:30 - Check-gathering of the community 10:00 - 10:20 - Worship 10:30 - 12 noon - Workshop Time #1 12:15 - 1:45 - Lunch and Program (Bibles, Nicaragua Trip, Video, Camp Promo) 2:00 - 3:30 - Workshop Time #2 3:40 - 4:00 - Closing There will be a youth program for two age groups. Brian Elliott will teach the children from 4th grade through high school. They will have “video clips” and crafts projects in the morning and will go bowling in the afternoon Jill Waters will teach the younger children 6 years through 3rd grade. They will do crafts, games, etc. Childcare will be provided for the young children, infants up to 5 years old in the nursery. Responsibilities: Larry Crist, Lorraine Stevens – Lunch Pam Newland – Opening & Closing Connie Day – M. C. for lunch & Chair of Event 7:30 AM -- A Disciples Men & Women (CWF & CMF) Breakfast, will take place before the Academy. Both will go through the same buffet and then meet in different rooms ¨ NICARAGUA
The major emphasis of these trips will be to bring Bibles to the people of Nicaragua and help train the ministry there. The 2nd project that all the people going will work on is building a dormitory type building. The budget for the trips was discussed. It was reported that the Nicaragua pastors have requested 50 Pastoral Spanish Bibles, Dictionaries, and Bibles for the people. Larry asked how each church was doing on fundraising for this project. Each church that was present reported. It was very encouraging. There will be an orientation for those going. It was reported that we will have between 20 and 25 people able to attend the two mission trips. Larry reported that we are still short of interpreters. If any of the churches have someone who could go that speaks both languages, please check with them and then let Larry know. This will be the fourth year that a mission trip to Nicaragua will take place.
REGIONAL BOARD MEETING February 8, 2003
In attendance: Pam Newland, Peggy Hill, Connie Day, Susi McCall, Linda Dealy, Ida Hardy, Jacqui McClellan, Herb Whitaker, Janetta Piper, Jim Loewen, Jim Beckley, Roger Bray, Larry Crist, Loraaine Stevens, Marjorie Johnson, Leman Messley, Bob Claire, Steven Yager, Jani DeMond, Gary Smith, Jean Stubbs, Ken Stamper, Bob Hopper, Kurt Hopper and Brian Elliott. Everyone joined in a worship service and communion service before the meeting. The meeting was opened with a prayer from Ken Stamper at 1:02 pm. Pam Newland asked for reports to be put into the offering plate after each one was given and that we would have prayer and bless them and the work that had gone into them when we finished. · Larry Crist – Regional Pastor Report I hope you are as excited about our Nicaragua ministry as I am, this is really good stuff and will be felt for years to come. Whatever you can do to encourage people to go or give funds or pray for this ministry will not be time or energy wasted. A lot of energy, creativity and time have gone
into the creating of this The Region did purchase a new computer. It is a
laptop and has greater I am happy to report that Caldwell is in the process of calling Gary Shoemaker to be their interim for a period of one year. Nampa has called Linda Olsen, a Lutheran pastor, to
be their interim for a period of one year. She was pastor at Faith
Lutheran which shares facilities with Treasure Valley. Jim Loewen has been called to Pastor the Jerome
congregation for an indefinite period of time. Brian Elliott, Connie Day, Jim Loewen, Leman Messley, Pam Newland Kum Ba Yah * The Forest Service will share a salt solution that they get from the Great Salt Lake to help with dust abatement. * We need to get 5 –7 large trees removed and that we will have that done by professionals. * The generator use will require guidance * We will need Camp directors for Junior & Chi Rho Camps * Gary Allen will contact people to be directors & co-directors Suggestions were made for the following people: Jennifer Fort, Mike Stear, Sarah Olsen, and possibly Jill Newnham to be co-directors. The committee suggested: NOT to have CYF and Chi Rho age groups together at the same retreats. The age group is too large of age span. Have RYC leadership and retreats (day) among East & West CIT training proposed in the spring (not any later than June) · Administrative Committee Report * Recap of BMF In the region * Budget Report – Suggested change in numbering system * Year Report * At the next meeting we will set the budge * BMF Audit for Indianapolis * Letter of Ok Books by Administrative Committee * Plan workshop for all financial officers · Budget Report * Year-end checkbook balance was $4605.10 (most of it designated) * Attached * Linda Dealy asked if stove at Cascade was paid for? Answered – Yes * Larry stated the are working on getting a new grill & stove at Kum ba Yah * was mentioned that we work on getting some type of workshop f or the Hispanic Ministry · Mission Report * Nicaragua a. 24 people are committed to going. Most congregations will be represented. b. Still need interpreters c. Priorities for fund Raising are #1 Bibles – which has about enough funding # 2 Travel cost for the members # 3 Supplies for the building project of restrooms, bungalows (dorms) and recreational facilities. * Snake River Academy a. Breakfast for both Disciples Women/ Disciples Men. Kathy Hopper will speak at the Women’s and David Bell – Yakima Mission will speak at the Men’s. b. Programs for all ages c. Luncheon – Fish & Chips – David Vargas & Connie Day will have a dedication service for the Nicaragua bible project. d. David Bell, Yakima Christian Mission Director will have a display and will be introduced at lunch. e. Betty Allen will have a display of SERRV items available for purchase. f. Jani DeMond will have Free Trade Coffee available for sale. Proceeds go to Yakima Mission Youth Programs. g. Would like Larry to send hard copy of registration to each church as well as web site registration. h. Prayers are need for the continual growth and well being of the Yakima Mission
* Vision 2020 a. Roger Bray reported that the goal of having 1000 new churches and 1000 revitalized existing congregations. So far it has been going well with new ideas being explored of ways for highly concentrated areas of the Disciples to work with the less concentrated areas. * New NBA facility of 50 apartments in Boise Area. They got the ok to go ahead from the Planning & Zoning Committee. * Connie asked for the Mission Division to work on getting a workshop for Hispanic Pastors. Maybe Pablo Jimenez * Marjorie Johnson asked what version the Spanish Bibles we are sending are? Brian Elliott answered they are somewhat close to the International Version in English · Disciples Men – CMF – Leman Messley Leman has the breakfast planned for the Snake River Academy and also encouraged the men to go on-site and register for the National Meeting in Cincinnati, Ohio. · General Board Meeting/Administrative Committee report – Roger Bray * Roger met with the General Board of the Disciples, January 28-28 in Indianapolis as part of the Administrative Committee. A. At this meeting we received reports from the General Units of the Christian Church and also the office of the General Minister and President. Three things stand out from this meeting. a. New Church establishment as part of the 20-20 is doing great with 65 new churches last year! 105 since 2001. b. General Units seem to be working in conjunction with each other with a spirit of mission and cooperation more so than in years past. c. New funding form and finances are a challenge. 1. The endowed funds are not making much of a contribution to the beneficiaries. 2. General Minister and President is in deficit and will be recommending that the General Board not meet next year as a cost saving measure. Administrative will meet next year instead. * General Assembly will be Oct 18-22 in Charlotte, NC. There will be elder workshops before the assembly, the assembly will be more user friendly. * The 2005 Assembly will be in Portland. Everyone should plan on attending. · Disciples Women - CWF - Ida Hardy Linda Dealy and I attended the ICWF cabinet meeting at San Antonio, TX January 24 – 29, 2003. We worked on new studies for CWF for 05-06 & 06-07. We met with Arnold Nelson, who is the new president of Homeland Ministries (went over some issues with him). We had work groups on General Assembly agenda and activities to be in October. The work groups were: a. Visioning/futuring group for CWF b. Anti Racism/Pro-Reconciliation c. Clergy sexual ethics/Children’s Safe Place We visited Inman Center and Inman Christian Center’s Apartment Communities. Saturday, Feb 1st was CWF Regional board meeting at Red Rock Church. We finalized plans for the CWF breakfast at the Snake River Academy. Cathy Hopper will be our speaker. It will be held at Treasure Valley Christian Church. Depot Gill will cater the meal. The cost will be $8. We will be taking an offering for the Nicaragua Project. We also planned Spring retreats – West District will be in Ontario, Or on April 5, 2003 and East District will be in Pocatello on April 26, 2003. Fall Retreat will be August 8-10th at Kim by Yah. Susan Gonzales Dewey from the Pacific Southwest region will be the keynote speaker. She is the Regional CWF Staff person and pastors a local congregation. The theme will be “Feed My Sheep” which is the 2003-04-study theme. Cost is still $50 early registration. We would like to have a “mug” collection for the camps. We are now working toward the 2006 Quadrennial, which will be a joint venture with the women of the United Church of Christ. It will be held in Indianapolis, Indiana. We have purchased 25 songbooks called “The Best of the Best”. These will be used for the regional Women’s programs. We are also working toward finding and purchasing at least 25 Chalice hymnals. This will make it easier to obtain song leaders and continuity of selections. · Assembly Planning Committee – Connie Bray Connie reported that the plans had come together for the Snake River Academy. The plans are as above mentioned in the Mission Report. · Pam Newland asked if everyone had read the minutes of the last meeting. Jani DeMond made a motion to accept them, Janetta Piper 2nd. MP · Brian Elliott had prayer and blessed the reports that had been gathered in the offering tray. · Old Business * Jani DeMond reported that the Yakima Indian Mission now has a full-time Mission Director, a full-time Program Director and a 1/3 time Pastor. They also have a full time intern that is the daughter of President Ham of the Disciples. * Jani asked for prayers for the mission as the Homeland Mission Division is going to stop funding Yakima. · New Business – None · Pam Newland asked the Board Meeting Trivia Question? Which of our churches is the oldest - Pocatello or University? The answer was University, which began in 1889. Pocatello will was started in 1908. · Jani DeMond made a motion to adjourn the meeting at 2:07 PM
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