Pastoral Meeting Minutes
11/18/08
Place: Pastor Paul’s house
Present: Pastor Paul, Pauline, Flora
1. Prayer
2. Church seminary materials: Flora will go to Kinko to print the materials. (11 copies)
3. 2009 Mission budget: Sister Sandy send the draft budget to mission committee members and prepare ppt presentation for strategic meeting.
4. Next year’s focus: Next year’s theme: no longer the same”.
a. 3 areas:
i. Prayer
ii. Caring
iii. Sharing
b. Sunday school: focus on the above 3 areas. Focus on 1 vision as BGCT http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mB4NQbIllg8 CCC’s Vision for 2010 is Expanding God’s Kingdom.
i. Prayer: Prayers in OT & NT.
ii. Caring: Model of caring in the bible.
iii. Sharing: The meaning of sharing in the bible & application.
c. Friday night Fellowship: To follow the above structure to design the fellowship with more application and practical way such as praying, sharing & caring.
d. Preaching: 12 times joint pastor Paul suggest for the pastors to break down the messages as follows:
i. Prayer (2x each)
ii. Caring (2x each)
iii. Sharing (2x Each)
5. 2009 English ministry support needed from adults
Ø Need Pastor Don to make a list of help needed from adult for 2009 English ministry.
n Sunday school- Separating the Jr and Sr high has helped to aim the discussion at the different maturity levels. Also now that two adults (Brian & Don) are joining the Sr high Bible study is another reason to continue to separate the age groups. However, one thing to consider for the Junior high is the challenge of keeping the younger youth focused as discussed in the last board meeting. There are few options:
u Option #1: Recruit 2 adults/parents for the Junior high class. 1 to teach and 1 to assist.
u Option #2: Recruit 2 adults/parents for the Junior high class. Separate into two groups to make it more manageable.
**Both options have their strengths and weaknesses. Option #1 allows the teacher to focus on the lesson and the assist to redirect distracting behavior. Option #2: requires two adults willing to lead a youth study, but it allows for smaller more manageable size. Either way, the need for next year will be to recruit two adults/parents. I will be able to provide training and materials depending on their teaching skills.
n Friday night fellowship- The actually Friday night fellowship is able to continue growing without additional support from adults. Friday night is a good time to give youth the opportunity to lead and serve.
n Discipleship groups: When small groups are regular and focused they can be a strong part of moving youth in their practical spiritual life growth. It is my heartfelt prayer that God will strengthen this ministry and allow it to become a major part of increasing the youths spirit life disciplines (prayer (devotions & intercession prayer), caring for one another, and sharing the faith). Currently, Pastor Don is lead 1 guys group and 1 girls group. From both adult and youth we have received requests to start another girls group. Here are three options:
u Option#1: recruit a female parent to cowork in the newest girls group. I would meet with and provide materials and guidance for the adult leader.
u Option#2: Try to start the next group on a week day, this would allow Pastor Don to lead an additional group.
u Option#3: If there are no adults ready are able to volunteer and the girls are not able to move to a weekday or Saturday then recruit from outside the church a qualified coworker. This could be on a volunteer basis or possibly use the seminary fund from the mission’s budget to support a seminary student.
n ESL- Thank God for the surprising expansion of the new ESL ministry. Currently eventhough the mix of the students language skills range from beginner to advanced the classes patience with another and willingness to asssit each other and the teacher in translation is very encouraging. Still, this is an area that I forsee a need for another ESL teacher to assist as the class continues to grow. Each week the class seems to add 1 or more students. We started with 2, then 3, then 4. And this Wednesday we may have upto 8. Please keep this new ministry upstart in prayer.
u Next steps:
l Announce the ESL class in the bulletin.
l Pastor Don will publish the lesson plan on the church blog.
l Recruit an additional ESL teacher to separate the class when it gets more than 8 into a beginner and intermediate English level.
n It would seem good to find a bilingual teacher for the beginner class. This is because most beginner students will likely have little English conversational skills and require much translation to even understand the instructions.
n The intermediate level ESL students would be more able to handle the class with an English speaking teacher as they already have a rudimentary English listening and conversation skills.
**Either way, this is a wonderful grace from God that we can support the church members and the community through ESL.
Pastor Paul’s response: Need Pastor Don to specify the information below:
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6. DCCYC Camp: Pastor Don requested the church’s support for the camps reevaluation of its constitution relating to the role of women. The DCCYC board has already discussed to amend the DCCYC camp manual to allow female camp coordinator, to allow female camp board meeting facilitator, and to allow female senior high workshop teacher. The change was accepted. The other board members have already voted to accept the changes and are awaiting our church’s response. DCCYC hopes to address this issue during tomorrow’s meeting (11/19).
7. Discipleship Groups:
a. Currently two groups:
i. Boys (Timothy, Kristian & James- Satoshi may join) Friday’s @ 6:30pm
ii. Girls (Chie, Kirsten, Liz, & Lucinda) Sunday’s @12:45
iii. Girls group #2: Linda and Catherine have requested another girls group on Friday. There are at least 2 other potential girls interested in joining. However, Pastor Don is already leading a guys group on Fridays. Please pray for God to raise up a female counselor willing to co-work with this group.
8. Reminder:
l 11/18 Pastor Don jury duty
l 11/19 DCCYC Board Meeting
l 11/29 Pastor Paul will invite church leaders’ family, Mckinney fellowship, and some pastors to come to his house on 11/29th at 6:00pm to celebrate his birthday and also Mckinney fellowship’s 1 year anniversary.
l 12/5-7 Pastor Wang will go to San Francisco for mission conference.彼岸福音特會www.Chinasoul.org
l 12/14 Deacon board meeting & budget meeting.
l 12/19 Friday night Strategic meeting. Flora will e-mail to Mike & Sandy to present 2009 adult short term mission ppt. Pastor Don will present youth short term mission ppt.
9. 請各位執事收到教牧同工會議記錄後，給一個回覆。在回覆中只需寫上一個「閱」字(“read” )。若有任何不同的意見，請隨時溝通。有紅色字的地方是務求回覆的，謝謝執事們過往在會議記錄上，用「閱」(read)字來表達對教牧同工會的支持與鼓勵。盼望神繼續賜給我們有美好的交通。Dear Deacons: Please give us your response after receiving pastoral meeting minutes. We appreciate your support and encouragement through reading the meeting minutes & response. May God continue to grant good communication among us.
10. Close prayer
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