Meeting Minutes

Board of Elders (“BoE”)

December 13, 2014

Present: Liqin Chen (Chair), Pastor Caleb Chang, Ke-Chieh Chu, Yuguang He, David Ho, Timothy Lu, Ming-Jer Tsai, Terry Yang (Secretary)

Elder Liqin opened meeting at 1:06 pm.

  1. Update on State of CBCGB

Pastor Caleb gave a quick recap of upcoming events, including Music Committee development. BoE recommends that, at the appropriate time, the Music Committee be reviewed during the upcoming calendar year.

  1. BoE Chair Election

BoE re-elects Elder Liqin as Chair for calendar year 2015.

  1. Church Vision

Elder Liqin confirmed special BoE vision prayer meeting for afternoon of December 21, 2014 from 12:30 pm -3:00 pm in Room 128.

  1. Policy Review

Elder Liqin to distribute full list of official CBCGB policies to BoE; once distributed, BoE will determine process for review of official CBCGB policies and archiving procedures.

BoE discussed procedural requirements for new and revised future CBCGB policies; BoE decided future BoE-approved policies will require 1) effective date, 2) confidentiality statement (which will determine if a password will be necessary to view policy on CBCGB website), and 3) method for dissemination of notice of policy approval.

  1. Missions Committee

BoE confirmed, by e-mail on November 26, 2014, appointment of Hank Lu to Missions Committee.

  1. Local Missions Committee

Charter discussion tabled until next regularly scheduled BoE meeting in January 2015 due to lack of time.

  1. Church Facility Usage Policy

Discussion on revisions proposed by the Stewardship Committee tabled until next regularly scheduled BoE meeting in January 2015 due to lack of time.

  1. Church Building Expansion (“CBE”) Update

Elder K.C. provided update on CBE project. BoE decided that construction on Phases II and III would not begin until $1 million donation fundraising goal is met.

  1. Continuing Education Support

Elder Terry presented Human Resources Committee recommendations for revising CBCGB personnel benefit policy to expand support for staff interested in continuing education. Further discussion tabled until next regularly scheduled BoE meeting in January 2015 due to lack of time.

 

Elder Liqin closed meeting at 3:00 pm.

長老團會議紀要

時間：12/13/2014 下午1時6分到3時整。

地點：CBCGB教會辦公室

出席：陳利欽(主席)，章開第牧師，朱克潔，何煜光，何明治，盧忠信，蔡明哲，楊德禮（秘書）

下午1時6分陳利欽長老禱告，開會。

  1. 教會近況：

開第主任牧師再次簡報將有的教會活動事項，包括：設立聖樂委員會，長老團將在適當的時候推薦，并於將有的行事曆中審核。 

  1. 長老團主席選舉：

長老團再次選舉利欽長老為2015年度的主席。

  1. 教會異象：

利欽長老確定長老團異象的特別禱告會在12月21日下午12:30-3:00在128教室舉行。 

  1. 政策評估：

利欽長老要向長老團發送CBCGB全套的正式政策；一旦送達，長老團將決定教會正式政策的評閱和存檔的操作程序。 

針對新的和修改了的未來CBCGB教會政策。長老團討論了操作程序的要求；長老團決定了未來長老團的審批政策，將要求：1）生效日期；2）保密聲明（決定是否需要密碼，來看CBCGB網站的政策）；和3）通知政策審批的分發方法。

  1. 宣教委員會

長老團在2014年11月26日用電子郵件確認，選派盧漢臺到會友委員會。  

  1. 本地宣教委員會

由於時間不足，章程討論，列出推到下次常例長老團會議，於2015年1月進行。  

  1. 教會設施使用政策

由於時間不足，討論產物管理委員會提議的修改，列出推到下次常例長老團會議，於2015年1月進行。

  1. 教會建筑擴建（CBE）近況

朱克潔長老提供了教會建筑擴建（CBE）項目近況。長老團決定，第II和III期建筑工程，（不）達到一百萬美元奉獻金額的指標，（就不）再開工。 

  1. 支持繼續教育

為擴大支持職員對繼續教育的興趣而修訂CBCGB員工福利政策，楊德禮長老提交了人事資源委員會的推薦。由於時間不足，進一步的討論，列出推到下次常例長老團會議，於2015年1月進行。

下午3時整，利欽長老禱告，結束會議。