APRIL 8, 2008

Members Present: Judy Peterson, Dawn Pehl, Shelly Bowar, Pastor Jule’

Members Absent: Mary Jo Miller, Muriel Hedrick

Spiritual Direction: Judy Peterson

March minutes were approved.

Old Business:

We are going to proceed with the assigned coffee hour schedule. When the new time and talent sheets go out in the fall we want to have a space so people can tell us times when they are not able to serve. (Snow Birds)

The Stewardship Board approved the Maundy Thursday offering to go to Global Missions. (Over $1600 was collected)

On Sunday, April 27, 2008 a forum for the entire congregation will be held to discuss Vision 2008 to get feedback. A second meeting will be held on Sunday, May 4.

New Member Sunday will take place April 27, 2008. We were not able to get in touch with any member from the Board of Evangelism, so we will not have any part in this event. We will look at developing our roll for the fall orientation.

Tuesday, April 15 at 6:00 has been set to hear about the Village to Village Program in the Centennial Room. Judy and Shelly will bring bars. Dawn will take care of coffee.

New Business:

On Wednesday, July 9, 2008, the Bethel Church Band has been requested to play in the band shelter at Chahinkapa Park from 7:30-8:30. Judy will contact Laurie Lekang to arrange the details for this event. We may want to advertise this come mid-May.

Relay for Life for the American Cancer Society sent us information on holding a Luminaria Sunday. Shelly will check the date of this event and we’ll discuss it more after knowing that. We will probably have Sandy put a note in the bulletin advertising for a Bethel team.

Dawn showed a book: Opening the Book of Faith (Lutheran Insights for Bible Study) that will be coming down from the ELCA. However, we feel what our congregation does with this will probably fall under the Board of Education.

Our next meeting will be Tuesday, May 13 @ 6:00 p.m. at the church. Dawn will be the devotion leader.

Shelly Bowar, Secretary