Announcements

• Office Closed Jan 21st

  The church office will be closed on Tuesday, January 21st.

• Message from Church Council

  Our newly reorganized Church Council met for the first time Jan. 9 with representatives of most church committees there to organize and plan for 2019.

   

  Last fall, after a meeting of the congregation to study the proposal, we changed how lay  leadership works. Instead of many committees meeting each month and business moving from committee to committee before ultimately reaching the council, all committees are  represented on the council and most business decisions can be made by the council without myriad meetings.

   

  This format is used by many other United Methodist churches and is particularly effective for smaller congregations such as ours. We’ve been exploring it in various forms for the last three years.

   

  Serving on the council: Mary Holloman, Chair; Pastor Don Dunn, Worship and Nominations; Mary Fulk, SPR; Ann Chandler, UMW; Vera Senn, Evangelism; Carla Ryan, Endowment/Memorial, and SPR; Christy Price, Finance; Tura Yount, Volunteer Coordinator, ; Mary Mantz, Trustees; Marilyn Bluhm, Memorial/Endowment.

   

  Council meetings are open to all members of the congregation. The next meeting is set for Feb. 6 at 5:15 in the Fireside Room. Copies of the minutes of the Jan. 9 meeting are posted in the fellowship Hall.

   

• Message from Trustees

  Trustee Repairs made in 2018

  We wanted our congregation to know what the trustees have repaired or replaced this last year.

  Due to our broken pipe behind the office, we had to dry out all the carpets, reglue the carpets back down, replaced the cove base, and replace sheetrock in the office that was ruined by water.  We also decided that since we had a plumber hired for the above that we also have him, attach the  family room toilet to the floor, replaced two toilets in the ladies room with chair height toilets, replaced toilet flappers, put in two new sinks in the ladies room down from the kitchen, automatic flusher on one urinal in men’s room plus several sinks needed new aerators or plumbing underneath sinks replaced.

  We did minor repairs to the roof to prevent any leakages, we replaced one faucet in the kitchen with a really nice one with a sprayer to help us fill pots and clean sinks out.  We repaired a broken stain glass window on the east side of sanctuary due to vandalism and have put new locks on the gates hopefully to prevent further vandalism.  We also have gotten all six cameras installed in our hallways to prevent further theft of our property. We are also shopping for a new snow blower to replace the one that has disappeared.

  We want to thank the congregation for their donations that make the above repairs possible.

  Thank you, Mary Mantz, Chairman of Trustees