| ATTENDEES: | Andy & Helen Torbet, Trevor & Maxine Dennis, Scott Bryden and Warner Baker |
| APOLOGIES: | Jimmy & Deborah Ogunshakin, Bob & Maureen Truman, Duncan & Juliette Lawrence, Kay Baker and Clare Bryden. |
The meeting began at 8pm and opened with a prayer.
| Topic | Action | |
| 1. | Matters Arising from Previous Minutes | |
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| 2. | Search for New Venue | |
| The search for a new venue is still ongoing. The group questioned what the budget for this is. This is something to put to the Finance Committee for discussion.
HT is to write a letter to Ladywood Leisure Centre to confirm our bookings due to the general uncertainty of what we have actually booked. AT brought to the attention of the group some errors in the last invoice for Ladywood Leisure Centre that had resulted in us being overcharged. AT & HT would keep a note of our actual use and compare with new invoices. |
Finance Committee | |
| 3. | Legal Spotlight | |
| AT & JO had met to draw up the first draft of the trust documents recently. JO will produce these and distribute to this group in near future. | JO | |
| 4. | House Groups (inc. Coventry) & Youth Ministry | |
| The Youth Ministry had had an excellent meeting – a good inspiring atmosphere. Their next meeting would be a planning meeting. They met three Fridays each month at St Chad’s Church, Stoneyhurst Road, Erdington. The only Friday they can’t use the hall is the 2nd Friday in each month.
All the House Groups were going well. The only note was the House Group that met at the Bryden’s house which was still predominately brothers. SB reported that the house group would be meeting at the home of Derrick and Sally Aris in Yardley Wood next week, as a trial measure. |
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| 5. | Leicester | |
| AT had spoken to DL yesterday. DL would email some updates to AT in time for today’s meeting, but AT had checked and none had been received. | ||
| 6. | Pastoral Matters | |
| WB raised his concerns about not yet having a membership list. He felt that this would help members be more committed and feel more secure. AT confirmed that a much firmer commitment from members would be required when we become a trust. It is a requirement of Trust Law that members of the congregation would need to ‘sign up’ to the trust (if they wanted to have the right to vote). | ||
| 7. | Events | |
| Teaching – WB mentioned a series produced by James Grieg on Peter the apostle.
TD commented that we would still need to be cautious about inviting outside speakers to come and preach. We would need to be sure of all sources. |
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| 8. | Any Other Business | |
| WB reminded the group that he would be cutting back his involvement at the end of the year. He would still remain a Shepherd, but he felt that he had discharged his duty of ‘stepping in the gap’ and was confident that the church had become stable enough to enable him to do this. He had now started his new full time career and was returning to help teach the pre-teens in Kingdom Kids alongside KB.
WB left he meeting at 8.45pm. | ||
| HT had drafted a sample monthly prayer letter which she had previously passed around. It was felt that this was OK to proceed with this project. | HT | |
| SB was making enquiries as to how the congregation might feel about sponsoring a HOPE project as a whole. | SB | |
| SB also commented that he had been concerned regarding Bella Hickman’s wheelchair and wondered if there might be something that we could do for her. It was suggested that he speak with MT who as a member of Benevolence Committee might be able to make enquiries. | SB |
Helen Torbet
Church Secretary