10/18/20 Weekly Congregational Updates

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Dear Members and Friends of our Congregation,

Here are several updates to pass along to you:

  1. This coming Sunday, October 18, is Breast Cancer Awareness Sunday.  You are encouraged to wear something pink to worship.
  2. We will be giving out the empty bags for you to fill for Trick-Or-Treat-So-Others-May-Eat as part of our food drive for AIM.   You are to return them full the following week, October 18.  If you are not yet comfortable coming to worship due to the coronavirus, there will be spare bags in the room off the narthex for you to pick up and return at your convenience beginning Sunday.  Don’t forget to use the door code to enter.
  3. By now you and your family should have received your copy of the Time and Talent sheets for 2021, as well as pledge cards for giving.  Please bring them back with you Sunday (or mail to the church office) and they will be blessed as part of the worship service this Sunday.  There will be a basket in the narthex and sacristy to receive these.   Because of COVID-19, we are not yet back to full capacity with our volunteers and really need you to prayerfully consider helping us through the use of sharing your Time and Talents with us.
  4. Several of you have asked me how we plan to hold our Semi-Annual Congregation Meeting on Sunday, November 8th.  With the threat of COVID-19 and in order to practice social distancing, the Church Council and I have discussed various methods to hold this meeting safely.  According to our Church Bylaws, proxies and absentee ballots are not permissible for this meeting so we have decided to be a little creative.  We have decided that we will still have our Congregational Meeting on November 8, but NOT during the Sunday School hour.  Instead, our meeting will take place at both the Early and Late Services that day during the worship service.  At the designated time, we will take 5-10 minutes to complete the voting process to elect new council members and to approved a budget for 2021.  In order to make this happen, you have a little homework on your part to complete before the meeting. You will receive the nominees and the budget as part of the November Messenger, as in years past.  However to vote on the budget, is a little more of a challenge since we will not be able to handle discussions as part of the meeting.  Along with the budget you will receive a sheet explaining the basic changes to next year’s budget compared to this year’s budget. If you have any questions or comments, you are asked to contact Diane Richardson, our church treasurer, and she will go over your budget questions.  Since the budget has already gone through the Support Committee and the Church Council, and next year’s proposed budget is slightly different from this year’s, we will be voting to approve the church budget with a simple yes or no answer as part of the meeting.  In the unlikely event, that there happens to be a tie in the voting process for new council members, we will have a tie breaker vote the following Sunday.  We thank you in advance for your patience and understanding in this time of COVID-19.  Our goal is to take care of the business of the congregation in an efficient and safe manner.  If I can answer any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.

 

In Christ,

Pastor Fischer