Gloria Dei Lutheran Church
Governing Board Minutes

Minutes of Gloria Dei Governing Board Meeting

April 11, 2006

Meeting was opened with a prayer by President Deb Kesse at 6:25

Members present: Scott Snyder , Doug Pals , Lorrie Graaf , Laurie Peterson , Shawn Woolman , Lou Grotheer and Charles Jackson . Also present were Pastor Burcham and visitors Merlin Siefkin, Kevin Kelly and Anne Martens. All visitors were members of the Strategic Ministry Action Team.

The Strategic Ministry Action Team (SMAT) report was presented to the Governing Board outlining the work up to today that the team has accomplished recommendations and next action steps. The SMAT asked the governing board to consider the report and either approve the recommendations of the SMAT report or recommend additional research into the recommended direction or other directions for the church presented within the report.

(see attached report). The Governing Board discussed the report with members of the SMAT for several minutes. Doug Pals made motion to thank the SMAT for the hard work that the team put into developing the information within the report and for their efforts to attempt to discern the future direction for Gloria Dei Lutheran Church and to table any motions to accept or reject the SMAT report until a future board meeting. Charles Jackson seconded the motion. The motion was discussed and approved by members of the board. Doug Pals continued by making a motion to communicate the information contained within the SMAT report with all members of the congregation and receive feedback prior to considering another motion regarding the SMAT report. Charles Jackson seconded this motion. Discussion of the motion determined that a letter would be sent to every member asking for congregation feedback at several scheduled meetings. The dates and times for the meetings were set. A call for a vote was made and the motion was approved by members of the Governing Board.

Pastor Burcham presented the Pastors Report (See Attached)

Attendance during the first three months of 2006 showed a surge with the Ablaze program, similar to the lift in attendance during the 40 Days program last year. Phase II of the Ablaze program will begin on April 23 rd .

Pastor talked of his trip to Uganda . He shared photos and stories of the trip and talked of the need for tangible items to help the ministry. Some suggestions were portable stereos (boom boxes) and batteries to run them for 1 year, Guitars, even church buildings. Pastor suggested that a Uganda Ministry Action Team might be created and some of the support for this mission could be included in the budget.

March Governing Board minutes were discussed and several changes suggested. A motion was made to table approval of the minutes until the May meeting. It was approved by the members.

Doug Pals presented the Financials Report. Although expenses to date are over budget, the reasons for the overages were approved by the Governing Board and giving to date has surpassed the additional expenses.

Laurie Peterson motioned for approval of the financials with the charge that Doug contact Bill Wishman on noted items over budget and report back in May. Scott Snyder seconded the motion and it passed.

President Deb Kesse presented the Nominating Committee report and asked for approval of the slate of Nominees for the election of new Governing Board members at the June congregation meeting. The slate of candidates is Doug Pals , Shawn Woolman and Kevin Kelly. Doug Pals motioned for approval of the slate of candidates, Charles Jackson seconded and the motion was approved.

Deb noted a change in the calendar for the May meeting

Laurie Peterson motioned for adjournment at 8:46 . The motion was seconded by Shawn Woolman and approved.