January 20 gathering notes

Thompson-Royers will be here on February 4^th – Mission Co-Worker Coffee during Sunday School hour – we’ll each bring something for the coffee – Mary will get with them before Sunday to make sure she can run their presentation on Sunday – Brian will either do a M4M or be liturgist – they’ll arrive Wed. 1/31 – Paul Seebeck will pick them up at airport – they’ll be staying with Soni – Thursday & Friday are full days – Soni has offered to have a gathering on Saturday for their local friends – we could join in if we’d like – they are leaving on Monday the 5^th – Soni will take them to the airport

Possible April or August visit to Guatemala – women’s group meeting may be in April – Elisa and Carrie possible folks to go in April – early August might be Elisa, Doug, maybe Molly or one of the youth – to publicize August (and April) trip, maybe have an informational F4T in late February – perhaps need to ask Outreach and Session to OK these trips – would have to cover a lot of the expenses, especially for Elisa – what energy do we have for fundraising for these events? – we have close to $3,000 on hand right now (carryover) – we’re asking Outreach for $3,000 ($1,500 for the presbytery, $1,000 for trips is probably what we’ll get) – we’ll need to do some fundraising this year – St. William has a fundraiser once a month: selling quart-sized containers of soup – they make several hundred $s a month doing that during the winter months – have the soup in the narthex to sell to folks after soup – maybe sell it for $10/qt – maybe do it once a month – Soni to write up a proposal for Session – 2^nd Sunday Soup! Feb 11^th –sell each quart for $20 – selling two soups: a vegetarian and a meat base – after a few months, progress to more soups and a contest!

Soni to write a proposal to Session to ask permission for selling Second Sunday Soup in the narthex – would like a label for each soup with name of soup and a note about the partnership (please pray for…) – Perry will start a flyer about the Second Sunday Soup Sale, reserve HH for last Sunday in February for info re: possible August visit (and fundraiser?)

Raul calling us has raised a red flag for Doug – not sure if he has an ulterior motive – so we need to be careful – if the August visit by us falls through, might we ask the presbytery if they want to send a couple of folks up for the September Network meeting at Cedar Ridge – some of the Network folks are hesitant to have Guatemalans at this meeting –

Phone call w/Raul: dates for the women’s meeting – beginning the process for sending their $1,500 (through IEPN) – Matilda’s baby update – possible dates for our August trip (3^th-10^th/11^th) – he was on the bus, so he was a little hesitant to talk freely – he just got out of the Presbytery Council Meeting – Raul (President), Martin Martin elder at Monte Sinai (Vice Pres), Fidel Juc pastor at Peniel (Treasurer) – gave him the dates of our possible August meeting – and let him know that we are starting the process of sending the money – they’ve had 16 baptisms in the river (pictures on Facebook recently) – need to make sure we get the April women’s group dates

We think it’s a good idea to call different folks but also recognize Raul’s new position

Doug’s feeling the need to have some sort of “theme” for the August trip so that we and they can better understand what we’re all about – we may want to do a M4M the week before the 25^th – after church on the 25^th we want to have our soup and signup for the August trip

For our February meeting (2/10) we’ll meet at 12:30 and start making soup while we’re talking – Doug will get the ingredients, Mary will buy the quart containers – we’ll set meeting time that day for 12:30-3:00 (Mary will be at MKP meeting in Springfield)

Thompson-Royers will be here on February 4^th – Mission Co-Worker Coffee during Sunday School hour – we’ll each bring something for the coffee – Mary will get with them before Sunday to make sure she can run their presentation on Sunday – Brian will either do a M4M or be liturgist – they’ll arrive Wed. 1/31 – Paul Seebeck will pick them up at airport – they’ll be staying with Soni – Thursday & Friday are full days – Soni has offered to have a gathering on Saturday for their local friends – we could join in if we’d like – they are leaving on Monday the 5^th – Soni will take them to the airport

Possible April or August visit to Guatemala – women’s group meeting may be in April – Elisa and Carrie possible folks to go in April – early August might be Elisa, Doug, maybe Molly or one of the youth – to publicize August (and April) trip, maybe have an informational F4T in late February – perhaps need to ask Outreach and Session to OK these trips – would have to cover a lot of the expenses, especially for Elisa – what energy do we have for fundraising for these events? – we have close to $3,000 on hand right now (carryover) – we’re asking Outreach for $3,000 ($1,500 for the presbytery, $1,000 for trips is probably what we’ll get) – we’ll need to do some fundraising this year – St. William has a fundraiser once a month: selling quart-sized containers of soup – they make several hundred $s a month doing that during the winter months – have the soup in the narthex to sell to folks after soup – maybe sell it for $10/qt – maybe do it once a month – Soni to write up a proposal for Session – 2^nd Sunday Soup! Feb 11^th –sell each quart for $20 – selling two soups: a vegetarian and a meat base – after a few months, progress to more soups and a contest!

Soni to write a proposal to Session to ask permission for selling Second Sunday Soup in the narthex – would like a label for each soup with name of soup and a note about the partnership (please pray for…) – Perry will start a flyer about the Second Sunday Soup Sale, reserve HH for last Sunday in February for info re: possible August visit (and fundraiser?)

Raul calling us has raised a red flag for Doug – not sure if he has an ulterior motive – so we need to be careful – if the August visit by us falls through, might we ask the presbytery if they want to send a couple of folks up for the September Network meeting at Cedar Ridge – some of the Network folks are hesitant to have Guatemalans at this meeting –

Phone call w/Raul: dates for the women’s meeting – beginning the process for sending their $1,500 (through IEPN) – Matilda’s baby update – possible dates for our August trip (3^th-10^th/11^th) – he was on the bus, so he was a little hesitant to talk freely – he just got out of the Presbytery Council Meeting – Raul (President), Martin Martin elder at Monte Sinai (Vice Pres), Fidel Juc pastor at Peniel (Treasurer) – gave him the dates of our possible August meeting – and let him know that we are starting the process of sending the money – they’ve had 16 baptisms in the river (pictures on Facebook recently) – need to make sure we get the April women’s group dates

We think it’s a good idea to call different folks but also recognize Raul’s new position

Doug’s feeling the need to have some sort of “theme” for the August trip so that we and they can better understand what we’re all about – we may want to do a M4M the week before the 25^th – after church on the 25^th we want to have our soup and signup for the August trip

For our February meeting (2/10) we’ll meet at 12:30 and start making soup while we’re talking – Doug will get the ingredients, Mary will buy the quart containers – we’ll set meeting time that day for 12:30-3:00 (Mary will be at MKP meeting in Springfield)

-Mary