Gloria Dei Lutheran Church
Governing Board Minutes

Gloria Dei Lutheran Church Governing Board

April 10, 2007 Meeting Minutes

Call to Order

President Kesse called the meeting to order at 6:32 p.m.; other Board members in attendance were Scott Snyder, Ken Wunsch, Marve Rohn, Laurie Peterson, Doug Pals, Kevin Kelley and Shawn Woolman.

Visitor Recognition

 No visitors were present at the meeting.

Monitoring Affirmation

Senior Pastor Report

• There was general discussion on Easter
• Membership Report was approved by consent

Parish Paper

The topic of the paper was church culture and what it reveals about the congregation. There followed a general discussion of our congregation’s culture past, present and future and how that will relate to the Strategic Plan.

Consent Agenda

Following a request for minor editing the minutes of the March 13, 2007 meeting were approved by consensus.

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

Actions

The date for the Budget Hearing was set for June 10 th at 1:00 pm in the sanctuary. The date for the Annual Meeting was set for June 24 th at 1:00 in the sanctuary.

The Board Policy Manual’s formatting was reorganized and this was approved by the Board.

As part of policy based governance the Board reviews its Policy Manual each year. A discussion took place on how best to accomplish this for fiscal 2008. It was decided that sections of the Manual would be reviewed by teams of Board members and then reported back to the Board with discussion. These are the teams and the sections they will review:

Scott and Doug will review section 2.0 – 2.5

Kevin and Laurie will review section 2.6 – 2.11

Ken and Shawn will review section 3.1 – 3.6

Lorrie and Marv will review section 4.1 – 4.8

There was a general discussion of future Ministry Reporting and how that related to the Strategic Plan.

There was a brief, general discussion about a privacy policy for member information.

Future meeting agendas items were discussed and scheduled.

Adjournment

Following recitation of the Lord’s Prayer, the meeting was adjourned at 8:05 p.m.