Congregational Life and Outreach Support (CLOS) Ministry Team Minutes

Dec 9, 2014

In attendance: Brian, Deb, Lon, Stephen, Bea, Kathy, Dot, and Danielle

CLOS goals:

1.      Continue to enhance and improve communication

2.      Foster small groups

3.      Encourage other ministry teams to embrace “outreach” as a core mission

The current calendar of upcoming 2015 events follows: 

Date	Event	Time	Place	Description/notes
Feb 17	Shrove Tuesday	Evening	Church	Eat pancakes alternate to Fat Tuesday
March	Elder’s Retreat
March 18	International potluck/meet &greet			Meet and greet new members
April 5	Easter Eggs	After worship	Church lawn	Also schedule egg stuffing, maybe have an event on the Saturday prior
April 26	Hymn sing and salads	After worship
May 10	Mother’s day and graduation	After worship	Jones	Provide gifts to graduates and cake to recognize mothers during fellowship hour
June 12	Friday Movie night
June 21	Father’s day	After worship	Jones	Cake
July 12	Ice cream social			Ice cream and toppings
Aug 9	Blessing of backpacks	During worship		Deacons event supported by CLOS (exact date TBD by deacons)
Aug 28	White Sands full moon night			Picnic at dunes; Reservations the 14th
Sept	Family hike
Oct 31	Trunk or Treat	6 – 8 pm	Front and parking lot	Saturday so time for big event; alternative to Halloween
Nov	Soup and games

 

1.      Soup and games retrospective: Positive: Served about 80 people. Sample bowls were a great idea. Soup and games is an easy-to-pull off and fun event.   Future enhancements: Set aside a large game table in the center of the room.  Buy a new game.  Have a vegetarian option.  Ask people to bring desserts. Use heavier duty plates.

2.      Review 2015 Calendar:  Made additions and adjustments as reflected in the table above.

3.      Budget:  We spent approximately 2/3 of our budget this year, largely because a designated gift for outreach took significant pressure off of the outreach portion of the budget.  We have spent almost half of the outreach designation.  We expect to increase our advertising and outreach budget in 2015.  The non outreach areas should be about the same.

4.      Other new business, outreach ideas:  The CLOS team voted to adopt a new combined outreach/local ministry project.  Plan is to produce an FPC cookbook, then sell it at the Farmer’s market, with benefits going toward a local charity (to be chosen in conjunction with the deacons).  The timeline is approximately this: 1) Jan and Feb: solicit recipes and build up congregational support 2) March: edit 3) April: print 4) May: Sell the cookbooks.