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Bethlehem Lutheran Church and School
Constitution and Bylaws
Membership Commitment
For current financial and budget information, please submit your request to the church office Business Administrator: blcs@followthestar.com
Edward Amey - President
Tim Amey - Vice- President
Rochelle Egan - Secretary
Glenn Lucas - Member at Large
Dave Mattice - Member at Large
Jeff Michlin - Member at Large
Darrin Watson - Treasurer
Tom Onnen - Governing Elder
Tony Capitelli - Governing Elder
Jim Doty - Governing Elder
Don Lund - Governing Elder| July 15, 2008- The Board of Ministry met and heard updates from the Elders regarding ministry and preaching schedule; Staff - Wednesday night calendar and program; Call Committee; Facilities Team and Pay It Forward Committee. The treasurer's report indicated finances are much healthier than the same time last year. Next meeting will be on August 19th. | |
| June 17, 2008- The Board discussed and set the agenda for the Congregation meeting scheduled for June 22nd. Updates were presented by the Call Team, the Constitution Review Task Force, the Facilities Committee and the Pay It Forward Committee. As part of the treasurer's report, funds were allocated to purchase a sound board. A motion was passed allowing the staff to purchase the new board. Dave Newland reported on Disaster Response Training he attended through our District Office. He introduced the idea of using Bethlehem as a Disaster Response site in an emergency. The next Board meeting will be held on July 15th. | |
| May 20, 2008 - Approval of Ministry /Preaching schedule through September. Updates presented on Sound System, Call Team, Constitution Review Task Force, and Capital Campaign. Scheduled Congregation Meeting for June 22, 2008 at 12:30 pm. Next Board of Ministry Meeting to be held on June 17th. |
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Jay Barnett
Fred Beach
Randy Brase
Tony Capitelli
Jim Crawford
Vic Crowe
Jim Doty
Mike Finger | Bill Fox
Len Geres
Al Gonzalez
Damon Letz
Don Lund
Tom Onnen*
Rick Terwall
Bruce Walker
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| July 19, 2008- The elders met Saturday morning July 19th. Jim Crawford and Bruce Walker attended their first meeting as elders, and Todd Evert has resigned and is moving out of the area. Items discussed included; Third Quarter Worship Schedule, The fall Meals that Matter calendar and curriculum, and a Hospital Emergency contact list. The next scheduled Elders meeting will be September 20th. | |
| May 17, 2008 - Created preaching schedule for July through September. Discussed changes in Children's Church program at 8:00 and 9:30am Worship services and change in order of service at 8:00 am service. Next Elders meeting to be held on July 19th. |
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Pay It Forward is the Sustained Giving
Stewardship Emphasis (SGSE) - Building Fund.
| June 10-11, 2008 - Bob Bewersdorf was here to begin training of the Support Committee for the fall campaign. Approximately 30 volunteer leaders and captains attended. The campaign orientation will be held during worship services on the weekend of June 21-22. |
| May 19, 2008 - The Leadership Team met to develop Bethlehem's Case Statement and determine the number of volunteers needed for the Support Committee. If you would like to volunteer, please call the church office. |
| May 10, 11, 2008 - Bob Bewersdorf, LCEF Capital Funding Services, recruited leaders for the Support Committee for the Capital Campaign. |
| March 13, 2008 - Bob Bewersdorf of LCEF Capital Funding Services began to custom design the Sustained Giving Stewardship Emphasis (SGSE) to fit Bethlehem building campaign needs using information from the Campaign Readiness Study which members of Bethlehem participated in 2007. The next step is recruiting leaders for the Campaign Committee. |
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"Then I will give you shepherds after my own heart,
who will lead you with knowledge and understanding."
Jeremiah 3:15
Tom Onnen - Chairman
Edward Amey, Tim Amey, Fred Beach, Tony Capitelli
Debbie D'Amico, Patty McKee
Gary Saenger, Gail Springer, Rick Terwall
August 20, 2008 - On behalf of the Call Committee, I (Tom Onnen) would like to share again the pastoral profile that we submitted to Pastor Stoterau at the Pacific Southwest District office. They then used this document to establish a list of potential pastoral candidates for us to consider. You might remember that we shared the Pastoral profile with you during our June 22 Voters meeting and asked for your feed back through two questions. We validated our profile with your answers which allowed us to better discern the information that was to be provided by the District. The items that make up our Pastoral Profile are as follows:
• Flexible Passionate Worshipper – one who embraces both traditional and contemporary worship and who provides dynamic, engaging, creative, relevant and theologically sound sermons.
• Rich Prayer Life – one who has a dynamic relationship with the Father, placing himself under God’s authority.
• Spiritual – one who is open to the leading of the Holy Spirit in himself and others serving with him.
• Approachable/Accessible – one who has an “open door policy,” particularly with regard to Staff.
• Compassion for People – one who has a mission mentality and demonstrates intimacy and concern for the congregation and the community at large.
• Attitude of Humility – one who is willing to participate with others with a servant’s heart.
• Leadership/Equipping – one who is confident and comfortable in who he is in Christ and able to model and empower humble leadership and service in others.
• Experienced – one who has been practicing ministry as a called and ordained servant for 10 – 15 years.
We received the names and personal information for 10 pastoral candidates back from our district office on July 7 when we met with our Circuit counselor, Pastor Chuck Pearson. After review of this information by the committee, we then met together on July 19 to discuss how the information provided by the district and the individual candidates matched up to our Pastoral profile. In that meeting, we reduced the number of candidates to five that we felt best met the profile we had established. We then contacted all five candidates to ask if they would be open to a call to Bethlehem and be willing to take part in a telephone interview. Four of the five pastors did indicate an interest in a telephone interview with the call committee. These interviews were conducted on the nights of August 11th and 13th. As a result of the telephone interviews, the committee has chosen two of the four candidates to further explore our ministerial fit through in-person interviews.
Currently we are in the process of selecting the dates for these in-person interviews. It is our hope that we will be able to conclude these two interviews by the end of the first week in September and then bring a recommendation forward to the congregation for review and consideration for placing a call to one of the two men to become our next Sr. Pastor sometime by the middle of September.
We are nearing the final step in this process and have two exceptional candidates to choose from. We ask that everyone in the congregation be in prayer for these last steps of ours and for the ministries and decisions that we will ask of the selected candidate. Please feel free to contact any one of the call committee members is you have any questions regarding any of this information. Thank you and God bless. |
| August 14, 2008 - the Call team conducted interviews this past week with four pastoral candidates. The committee is now reviewing the next steps. | |
| July 19, 2008 - The call team met Saturday morning July 19th to review the call list prepared for us by our District Office. The result is a list of five names to be considered by the committee. The next step will be to arrange and conduct phone interviews as soon as they can be scheduled. | |
July 14, 2008 - The call team met Monday July 7th with Pastor Chuck Pearson, our Circuit Counselor. Pastor Pearson delivered the call list from the district and led us in a discussion on our next steps, which include processing the information and begin to shorten the list to candidates that best meet our profile.
The team will meet again on Saturday July 19th. Continue to pray for the call team, God’s will for our church, and for all the men on the list. |
| May 12, 2008 - The Call Committee met to complete the standardized interview questions. Pastor profiles and a list of candidates were sent to the District in April. We hope to have a response in June. Once the information is received from our District, the Committee will meet again. |
| April 14, 2008 - The Committee met and completed the pastor profile and a list of candidates to serve Bethlehem. Information has been sent to the District for review. The Committee is now working on developing standardized interview questions. Our next meeting will be scheduled in early May |
| March 30, 2008- The Committee met to continue to develop a profile of a pastor to serve Bethlehem. Names of pastors have been submitted by members of Bethlehem for consideration. The next meeting is scheduled on April 14 to finalize the profile. |
| March 10, 2008 - The Committee met to begin to develop a profile of a pastor to serve Bethlehem. Names of pastors to be considered are welcomed. Please submit to any of the Call Team members by March 30. |
| February, 2008 - The Committee will be meeting to develop a profile of a pastor to serve Bethlehem and our community. The profile will include characteristics we believe are important in the pastoral office as well as the ministries we want to emphasize. Please contact anyone on the Committee with your suggestions. We are also asking for the names of any pastors you would like to be considered for our call. |
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