Minutes of annual business meeting

Family of Hope

Business Meeting

January 21, 2018

Following afternoon worship on January of 21, 2018, Family of Hope House Church met for its annual business meeting. Cathy Atwell, Susan Campbell, Kent Palmer, James Stauffer, Ruth Stauffer, Guy Vlasits, Alma Jean Yoder, Harvey Yoder were in attendance.

The leadership team (Susan Campbell, Dick Dumas, and Harvey Yoder) reported on a meeting held on January 17, 2018.  They were concerned that 2017 giving was considerably less than in previous years. They hoped that giving in 2018 would increase, but it seemed more prudent to assume that giving would not dramatically increase. The leadership team suggested the church adopt a 2018 giving plan similar to the one used for 2017.

Susan Campbell presented the 2017 budget as well as actual 2017 spending.

The congregation accepted the proposal to use the 2017 budget with minor alterations.  The miscellaneous category was reduced from $500 to $300, so that $200 could be added to delegate fees (Delegate fees had been budgeted at $200 in 2012 and 2013 but not in 2017).

Some discussion occurred over whether the congregation wanted to continue to be members of Faith in Action. A decision was made to continue membership in 2018 and Harvey Yoder will represent the congregation at Faith in Action meetings. The church will contribute $200 to Faith in Action from the discretionary fund as was done last year.

We discussed whether we wanted to continue to have joint worship meetings with the Table. We decided to meet with the Table on February 18^th, but defer plans for future joint meetings until after a decision is made about whether we want to continue with these meetings.

We invite members that were not able to attend the business meeting this week to continue the discussion of these topics next week. 

Kent Palmer

recording secretary