FRLC Board Meeting Minutes

Wednesday, October 7, 2015

 Check In & Prayer Bohdan, Brian, Ed & Melanie were present. Brian opened with prayer.

Minutes from the September Meeting: were approved.

Treasurer’s report: The current balance is $ 1777.38. A number of donations came in following the last newsletter.

 Coordinator’s report: The coordinator is continuing to work on getting an Associate Pastor to help develop the lay fellowship. His former intern is there half time now focusing on other ministry. They continue to work with the Synod regarding calling him. Their church concluded their recovery lecture series. It was well attended. He updated database after the newsletter mailing and continues to respond to inquiries. He will use some e-blasts to promote the retreat. The Minneapolis Synod Portico funds are available for grants to congregations to do neighborhood initiatives. His Associate is writing a grant to help provide instruments for the drum circle for Conscious Contact and get a website for it up and running. The grant would be for $5000, and they would run it through the FRLC account. This would be a start on the new fellowship.                  

Old Business:

–2016 FRLC retreat brochure –The contract was signed for the retreat center and a deposit will be made in the next few days. Bohdan will write a cover letter and send it to Ed to go out with the brochure. Ed suggested personal calls to members who are in Colorado and sending information to the Rocky Mountain Synod to include in their newsletter. He will send the information about members in the Colorado area to Bohdan.

–Newsletter: They are easy to produce; getting the content for them is the challenge. Last time Ed came across a couple relevant articles, obtained permission to use them and included them in it. He encourages everyone keep an eye out for good articles for the newsletter. The newsletters cover their cost and bring in additional donations to keep us going each time. The next issue will use Bohdan’s letter for content for the newsletter and include the brochure.

New Business:

–Annual Meeting: The question was raised whether we need to have a meeting at the retreat and if so, how do we handle it if few board members attend. The constitution calls for us to hold such a meeting at the retreat and in the past that has been how we identified new board members and helped others to understand how the Fellowship works. Next month we will look into a way to include additional board members who aren’t present. Perhaps we could do it via the internet—Skype or other service. There is no cell signal at the retreat center.

Melanie closed the meeting in prayer.

Next meeting: November 4, 2015 2:00 pm MDT/2 pm CDT/1:00 pm PDT/3:00 pm EDT 12:00 pm