Prayerful Visions For Our Future:
Our Tomorrow In God's Hands
Update:
8/29/2010
*** Please Note:*****
On THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 23rd at 6:00pm
We will be meeting at
St. John’s Reformed Church to continue our discussions for Joint Ministry
with them. Assistant Bishop Rev. David Preisinger from our Synod will
be there, as well as Leadership from the Reformed Church Classis (Like
our Synod) (the Rev. Phyllis Palsama). Rev. Nancy Ryan from the
Management Team that is now in charge of St. John’s (she is the Minister
at the Reformed Church in Fort Plain) and Pastor Dave will be leading a
short time of devotions and then our Congregations and the Synod
Leaders will bring us further in our discussions towards future
ministry together, offering options and what they mean.
It is important that as many
of our members be in attendance as possible for this time. (This
meeting will begin at 6:00 sharp)
Please mark your calendars
and plan to attend. This discussion between our 2 church members and the
Synod Leadership could well shape the Ministry of our Churches and the
Ministry in St. Johnsville for decades to come. You may Contact Pastor
Dave, or Russell Sanders before the 23rd with any questions you may
have.
Also note that Assistant
Bishop Preisinger will be meeting with our Council on Monday, September
13th. One of the reasons is the Reformed Church Ministry opportunity.
The other reason for his visit
is that over the summer, our church giving decreased significantly while
our expenses remained the same. We have reached that point the Council
and Pastor Dave have been talking to the Congregation about these past 3
years. There are presently less than 10 months of funds to pay the
Pastor and fund the Ministry.
As of September 1st, our Synod
is placing Pastor Dave on the Call list for his possible placement at
another church. Depending upon our ability to make up the deficit and sustain our Ministry) (and greater participation in our Church) will
factor in greatly as to whether Rev. Johnson and his family are able to
remain here at St. Paul’s.
Putting Christ first in all
things, we look to Christ alone for our vision, our faith, our
faithfulness, and our love for His church here in St. Johnsville and
beyond.......Please be in prayer. We thank you and may you be blessed.
Here you will find a portion of our Council's and Congregation's prayers, discussions, dreams, hard work, promptings of the Holy Spirit, and minutes and statements from our Church and Council Minutes. If you have questions or comments, you can go to the "Contact Us" page...or email the church at stpauls_stj@yahoo.com or Pastor Dave at revdavej@yahoo.com or call 518-568-3007...or post a comment on the Rev's Rave page here on this site. Blessings. The St. Paul's Council St.
Paul’s Lutheran Church Council
Meeting Minutes Monday
May 3, 2010
Call to Order: Rev.
David Johnson called the regular monthly meeting to order at 7:10p.m.
at the St. Paul’s Lutheran Church.
Quorum:
Was Established
Attendance:
Rev. David Johnson
Members
Present: Treasure
Shelley Arduini, Gary Warn, Wendy Snell, Rachel Millington, Secretary
Erica Darling, Vice President Beth Cabanas, Cherrie Fox, Russell
Sanders Members
Absent: President
Les Larsen (excused), Linda Larsen (excused), Barb Dannible (excused)
Opening
Prayer: Opening
prayer and scripture was ed by Rev. David
Johnson
Previous
Minutes: April 5
meeting minutes read by Secretary Erica Darling Motion
made by Cherry Fox to accept April minutes Support
Motion
Carries
Finance
& “Make It Simple” Teams: The
Finance Team gathering information for the Annual Audit. Motion
made by Rachel Millington to accept Report.
Support
Motion
Carries
Treasure
Report: Report read
by Treasurer Shelley Arduini.
Motion
made by Beth Cabanas to accept Treasure Report. Support
Motion
Carries
It
is noted that our decision for the Saturday Mass was that of our
entire Council and Rev. Johnson.
Gary
Warn has completed his Custodial duties at St. Paul’s Lutheran
Church
Pastor
Dave will be contacting Assistant Bishop Preisinger that Russell
Sanders will be our Council Representative for RCA St. John's Merger
talks and Carlee Elwood our Congregational Representative; both
chosen by our Council.
The
Council formulated and discussed the PR
3-5-6 Project.
The
PR 3-5-6 Project
– Out Prayerful “together” ministry dream with St. John’s
Reformed Church:
(PR-3-5-6
Project) –
Proverbs 3:5-6
5
"Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own
understanding:
6
in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths
straight."
We
believe, that with the people of St. John’s Reformed Church, we
place our trust first and foremost in the Lord with all of our
hearts and look to Him alone for guidance and understanding and
truly acknowledge Him and His desires for His church, the path that
leads to this new united ministry between our Congregations will be
clear.
Our goal together and study God’s Word together often, and
to share the message of salvation in Jesus Christ by grace through
faith with our community and beyond. We
believe that keeping our Reformed and Lutheran Reformation roots and
traditions and sharing them and their beauty and uniqueness only
strengths this new ministry. It will provide our “new church”,
and our community, with greater and richer worship experiences,
teaching materials, more church wide ministry opportunities and the
collective spiritual and learned wisdom of those in the body of
Christ.
Our
moving to St. John’s Church is not a moving of St. Paul’s present
ministry to a new location. We deeply desire, applying PR 3-5-6, to
give birth to a new ministry with St. John’s Reformed that will
grow and become the church that God has planned for it to be. Our
job, as one of our Congregations’ favorite Hymns goes is to live
out the words, “My heart, my life, my all I bring. To Christ who
loves me so; He is my Master, Lord, and King – Where-ever He leads
I’ll go.”
All
this being said, we praise God for this great opportunity to be
faithful to His call and are filled with hope and joy as we continue
to be led by the Holy Spirit with our brothers and sisters and St.
John’s Reformed Church. Thanks be to God.
St.
Paul’s Council
Next
meeting to be held at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church on June 7, 2010
Closing
prayer led by Rev. David Johnson
Motion
made by Shelley Arduini to adjourn at 8:15 p.m. Support
Motion
Carries Respectfully
submitted,
Erica
Darling
Secretary
Following
the meeting of the “Vision/Ad Hoc Committee” of July 6,
2010 and a report from Russell Sanders, Carlee Elwood and Rev. David
Johnson and minutes and read that were offered by Rev. Nancy Ryan
of the Reformed Church; we the Council approve the following:
St.
Paul’s Lutheran Church Council
Meeting Minutes
Monday
July 12, 2010
Call to Order: President
Les Larsen called
the regular monthly meeting to order at 7:02pm at St. Paul’s
Lutheran Church.
Quorum:
Was Established Attendance:
Rev. David Johnson
Members
Present: President
Les Larsen, Vice President Beth Cabanas, Treasure Shelley Arduini,
Secretary Erica Darling, Gary Warn, Rachel Millington, Russell
Sanders, Linda Larsen, Wendy Snell Members
Absent: Barb
Dannible (excused),
Opening
Prayer: Opening
prayer and scripture was led by Rev. David
Johnson
Monthly
Agenda Motion
made by Russell Sanders to accept monthly agenda “as is” Support Motion
Carries
Previous
Minutes: June 7
meeting minutes were read by Secretary Erica Darling Motion
made by Les Larsen to accept June minutes (with corrections) Support
Motion
Carries
Finance
Report: Finance Team
gathering information for yearly Audit.
Treasure
Report: Reported by
Treasurer Shelley Arduini Motion
made by Les Larsen to accept Treasure Report. Support
Motion
Carries
Rev.
Johnson made a motion to accept Cherry Fox’s resignation from St.
Paul’s Council with Regret. Support Motion
Carries
“Strawberries
For Kids” Ice Cream social brought in a total of $383.32. St.
Paul’s is going to round up and give the Children’s
Hospital at Albany Medical Center
$400.00 this year.
The Annual Peach Festival Ice Cream Social will be held August 21, 2010 from
6:00pm - 8:00pm at the St. Johnsville Marina. Money will be donated
again this year to our local D.A.R.E. Program. Schwann’s Inc. will
be our Ice Cream donor again this year.
Annual
The Ham & Fritter dinner is tentatively set for September 11,
2010 from 4:00pm- 7:00pm at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church. More
details to follow.
Addendum
to Particular Minutes of PR 3-5-6 May 3
2010
***We are also proposing that our Organist, Shirley Shannon, whom St.
John’s is also very familiar with, be brought on as the church
organist. This seems especially appropriate since St. John’s is
without an Organist at this time. God is good and works things out
just right!
Next
meeting to be held at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church on August 2, 2010
Closing
prayer led by Rev. David Johnson
Motion
to adjourn at 8:31pm Support Motion
Carries
Respectfully
submitted,
Erica
Darling Secretary
