Landisville Mennonite Church
Congregational Leadership Board -Meeting No. 252 (Special) Feb. 14, 2010
Members present: Ken Burkhart, Brenda Horst, Jim Ipsen, Nelson Kling (chair), Beth Martin, Larry Newswanger, Emily Shank, Clayton Suydam, Byard Yoder (vice chair), Mike Zehr
Absent: Randall Shull, Sam Smith
Others present part time: Lynn Roth, Gerry & Rose Baer
1. Mennonite High School Education: In light of the growing deficit for funding our commitment to LMH for the students attending from LMC and our intention to assist our students attending next school year, ’10-’11, we must address this issue now so parents and congregation can plan for the next school year. Gerry did a survey, asking our members how much they could pledge for the remainder of the current school year and how much they could pledge for next school year. From this survey, $19,000 was pledged for the current school year and $20,000 for the next school year. We need about $34,000 to cover our current deficit and expenses for this current school year, by June 2010.
Recommendation: That $34,000 be allocated for LMH by June, for those students attending this school year, and that we budget $2,000 for each student attending next school year, anticipating that five students will attend for a total amount of $10,000. Unanimously approved by all Board members present.
2. Mission and Service involvement and support guidelines: With LMC being responsible to contribute to Eastern Mennonite Missions the balance of funding that the Gingrich and Myers Missionary Support Teams are obligated for, and with there being an increasing monthly deficit to EMM, we discussed the January 2010 proposal, “Guidelines for Mission and Service Involvement and Support”. The task force comprised of Gary Sensenig (chair), Glen Hoover(Sec.), Dan Burkhart (Min. of Missional Life), Helen Hertzler and Lynn Roth presented this in our January 2010 meeting. We feel the task force has done an excellent job of pulling this proposal together. This proposal establishes some parameters for our global mission and service involvement, participation and support. We need to take action promptly, so our missionaries and their MST’s can plan at least six months in advance. Recognizing that changes in our funding of current missionaries with EMM should not be implemented until the end of their current term, we considered this recommendation.
Recommendation: That Landisville Mennonite congregation supports our long term missionaries that are eligible at the level in the proposed “Guidelines…Support Levels: 2. Long Term, b. Annual limit of up to 25% of the member’s annual budget(MST) shall be used as a support guideline,” and that the proposed “Guidelines for Mission and Service Involvement and Support” be discussed, modified and approved in our next regular scheduled meeting. Unanimously approved by all Board members present.
Meeting adjourned 11:30 am. Larry Newswanger, recorder