{"id":16006,"date":"2022-12-05T17:44:25","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T22:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fccej.org\/v5\/?p=16006"},"modified":"2023-01-03T06:49:47","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T11:49:47","slug":"december-2022-church-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fccej.org\/v5\/december-2022-church-council\/","title":{"rendered":"December 2022 Church Council"},"content":{"rendered":"

December 6, 7:00 pm – Marvin Lounge<\/h3>
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If participating remotely, please remember to mute your microphone unless you are speaking in the meeting<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>
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  • Opening Prayer – Pastor Mark<\/li>\n
  • Changes to the Agenda<\/li>\n
  • Approve Minutes: November Council Meeting<\/li>\n
  • Staff Update<\/li>\n
  • Financial Update<\/li>\n
  • Budget Update<\/li>\n
  • Motion 1: Finance Committee moves to allocate $5000 to the Vermont UCC Hope Fund.<\/li>\n
  • Discussion topic: Josh’s Transition\n
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    • Jan 15 – final Sunday Preaching<\/li>\n
    • Jan 19 – last day in the office<\/li>\n
    • Celebrations:\n
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      • Jan 13 – Church-wide dinner with selected speakers<\/li>\n
      • Josh will try to meet individually with some people<\/li>\n
      • Farewell Cottage meetings: 3-5 events of 8-10 people, hosted by member<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
      • Gifts: possible stole from Terri Livak, cash gift<\/li>\n
      • Council Next Steps:\n
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        • Congregational discussion about future models – Annual Meeting<\/li>\n
        • Pre-meeting discussion about options, cost, roles Pros\/Cons<\/li>\n
        • Council brainstorming about roles\/options ideas – email Council possible models, talk to your friends at other churches, reflect on options<\/li>\n
        • Are there expenses we don’t incur because of budget?\n
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          • Outreach, evangelism, do we hire an interim?<\/li>\n
          • Length of time\/What’s next?<\/li>\n
          • Period of discernment; typical AP 3-4 years – exhausting if search takes 18 months<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
          • If we decide to hire a new Associate Pastor, Council will appoint a search committee<\/li>\n
          • If we decide on an alternate model, HRC will come up with Job Descriptions, Finance\/salaries, search committee (3-5 people) for those positions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
          • Discussion\/questions from reports submitted by committees, recognized groups and teams – if warranted<\/li>\n
          • Any other questions from reports<\/li>\n
          • Other Discussion<\/li>\n
          • Request for agenda items for next meeting on Jan 3, 2023<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

            Ushering assignments for committees (3rd Sunday of the month):<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>
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            • Committee<\/div><\/span><\/li>
            • Christian Education<\/li>
            • Missions<\/li>
            • Thrift Shop<\/li>
            • Deacons<\/li>
            • Food Pantry<\/li>
            • Hospitality<\/li>
            • Music<\/li>
            • Communications<\/li>
            • Trustees<\/li>
            • Stewardship<\/li>
            • Nominating<\/li>
            • Ushering<\/li><\/ul><\/div>
              • Month<\/div><\/span><\/li>
              • January<\/li>
              • February<\/li>
              • March<\/li>
              • April<\/li>
              • May<\/li>
              • June<\/li>
              • July<\/li>
              • August<\/li>
              • September<\/li>
              • October<\/li>
              • November<\/li>
              • December<\/li><\/ul><\/div>
                • Date<\/div><\/span><\/li>
                • Jan. 16, 2022<\/li>
                • Feb. 20, 2022<\/li>
                • Mar. 20, 2022<\/li>
                • Apr. 17, 2022<\/li>
                • May 15, 2022<\/li>
                • June 19, 2022<\/li>
                • July 17, 2022<\/li>
                • Aug. 21, 2022<\/li>
                • Sept. 18, 2022<\/li>
                • Oct. 16, 2022<\/li>
                • Nov. 20, 2022<\/li>
                • Dec. 18, 2022<\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agendas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fccej.org\/v5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fccej.org\/v5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fccej.org\/v5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fccej.org\/v5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fccej.org\/v5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16006"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.fccej.org\/v5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16067,"href":"https:\/\/www.fccej.org\/v5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16006\/revisions\/16067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fccej.org\/v5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fccej.org\/v5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fccej.org\/v5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}