Gloria Dei Lutheran Church
Governing Board Minutes

December 05, 2006 Meeting Minutes

Pastor Burcham opened the meeting with prayer.

Call to Order

President Kesse called the meeting to order at 6:30 p.m. Those in attendance were Shawn Woolman, Ken Wunsch, Scott Snyder, Kevin Kelley, Lorrie Graaf, Deb Kesse, and Marvin Rohn.

Visitor Recognition

No visitors were present at the meeting.

Board Member Strengths

The strengths of each board member, based on an assessment from the book Now Discover Your Strengths, were reviewed.

Monitoring Affirmation

Senior Pastor Report

• As a point of information, the service schedules for Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and New Year's Eve was presented.
• Most of the mission team will be leaving for Uganda on December 29, but Pastor Burcham will not depart until January 1. All will return January 10.
• The Gloria Dei Foundation has resumed meeting on a regular basis. Three new members, Don Franzen, Doug Bass, and Doug Mertz, have joined the Foundation Board.

Consent Agenda

The minutes of the November 14, 2006 were approved by consensus.

Following a brief discussion, the financial report was approved by consensus.

Pastor Burcham presented the membership report. After reviewing and discussing the report, Governing Board members decided:

• Membership reports should be prepared and presented on a quarterly basis
• Twice a year the geographical locations of members gained by transfers and adult confirmations should be plotted, as a means to assess trends.

The membership report was approved by consensus.

Ends Statements

  The Board reviewed the ends statements developed during the November meeting and the work undertaken by a small subcommittee since that time. It was then decided a focused, dedicated meeting was needed to continue work on the statements. President Kesse will schedule a meeting for a weekend in January 2007.

Strategic Planning

The Board discussed the process for continuing strategic planning. Two approaches were discussed: 1) establishing subcommittees that would report directly to the Board or 2) forming ministry action teams (MAT) that would report to Pastor Burcham who would, in turn, report teams' activities to the Board. The pros and cons of each approach were weighed. Following discussion, the decision to use the MAT approach was made, via Board consensus. It was then noted that once a MAT was formed, the Board would need to develop ends statements so that work of the teams could be monitored.

Future Meetings

The next Governing Board meeting will be held January 9, 2007. Members did not identify specific or new agenda topics, so the meeting will be based on standing agenda items.

Housekeeping

A new S.H.A.P.E. class will begin early 2007 and members were encouraged to continue attending, as a means of identifying their respective spiritual gifts.

Adjournment

Following the recitation of the Lord's Prayer, the meeting was adjourned at 9:25 p.m.