Meeting Minutes

Board of Elders (“BoE”)

April 11, 2015

Present: Liqin Chen (Chair), Pastor Caleb Chang, Ke-Chieh Chu, Yuguang He, David Ho, Timothy Lu, Lance Pan (Board of Deacons [“BoD”] Representative), Haiguo Wu (Head Deacon), Terry Yang (Secretary)

Present for Brief Sharing: Kathy Ho, Nancy Lu, Cornelia Tsang

Elder Liqin opened meeting with prayer at 9:07 am.

1. Brief Sharing

Elder Terry shared overview and pictures of his recent tour of Israel.

2. Update on State of CBCGB

Pastor Caleb gave a quick update on upcoming events:

• Pastoral staff reviewing holistic plan for use of 151 Spring Street in advance of room assignments given the recent completion of the floor plan by the Church Building Expansion Team;
• Memorial Day Chinese Ministry family retreat change in speaker due to Brother Bian suddenly not being available due to a recent fall; Pastors Sandy Liu, Caleb, Jiang Wei and JuTa Pan to cover speaker sessions;
• Lexington campus baptism ceremony on April 26, with perhaps more than 40 candidates including ~20 youth; concerns raised regarding progress for vetting Chinese Ministry baptism candidates, and plan of action, perhaps including baptism class teacher training this summer, in development;
• Mother’s Day Chinese Ministry service, with Advisory Pastor Morley Lee preaching;
• Pastor Caleb’s upcoming outside preaching schedule at NECCC evangelistic meetings April 24-26 and participation at Pittsburgh Chinese Church for the 50th Anniversary the weekend of June 20th.

Pastor Caleb also gave a quick recap on recently completed events:

• Successful Mandarin Gospel Meeting (“MGM”) with crucial follow-up by the Evangelism Explosion team;
• City Outreach Ministry recently baptized 11 candidates.

3. BoD Update

Deacon Haiguo provided praise for recently completed MGM, with smooth planning and transitions over 3,000 attendees and 50-60 attendees (10% growth from the past MGM) needing additional active follow-up.

4. Board of Deacon Nominations and Deacon Nomination Committee Appointments

Elder Yuguang presented qualifications for candidates for the Deacon Nomination Committee (“DNC”) and the standard operating policy for nomination of BoD candidates. Elder Yuguang presented identified and proposed DNC candidates; entire proposed slate approved by the BoE. The 2015 DNC members will be: Yuguang He (Chair), Jiyong Wang, Hank Lu, Xinyu Li, Gerd Kaiser, Melissa Yang and Chung-Pei Chang. Elder Yuguang to publish requests for Deacon nominations from the congregation in collaboration with Ying Yuan Zhang and Pastor Chuck Lowe.

BoE identified candidate for appointment as acting Deacon to fulfill the term of Deacon Lawrence Gan, who has resigned due to relocation out of the area; final approval of appointment pending completion of in-home visit by Elders Liqin and Ke-Chieh.

5. MetroSouth Ministry Core Co-Worker Team (“CCT”) Chair

Elder Liqin presented candidate, Lee-Fang (Ida) Shaw, nominated by existing CCT for next CCT Chair; BoE approves nomination.

6. Continuing Education Support

Elder Terry presented proposal and rationale for, as proposed by the Human Resources Committee, to revise the Benefit & Personnel Policies for Pastoral and Administrative Staff section related to Professional Expense Reimbursement to provide pastoral staff with greater flexibility in expense reimbursement and to align our policies and procedures with Internal Revenue Service regulations and guidelines for not-for-profit organizations. BoE approved proposal as attached, effective May 1, 2015.

7. Community Outreach Committee

Charter discussion tabled due to current travel of Community Outreach Committee Chair.

8. Ministry Review Schedule

BoE discussed coordination and logistics of upcoming ministry review for Chinese Worship Ministry and Web Team.

9. Church Information Meeting

BoE discussed coordination and logistics, including content, of Church-wide Information Meeting on April 19, 2015.

Elder Timothy closed meeting with prayer at 12:37 pm.

长老团会议纪要（4/11/2015）

出席：陳利欽（主席），章開第牧師， 朱克傑， 何煜光， 何明治，盧忠信， 潘瀾（執事會代表）， 吳海國（執事會主席），楊德禮（秘書）。

列席会前分享:  薛悅悅， 劉楠馨， Cornelia Tsang

会前禱告：上午9:07 am.   陈利欽長老

会前分享

德禮長老給大家分享了最近以色列之行的圖片和感受。

教會近況簡報

開第牧師簡單報告了教會事項

• 教牧同工全面地审核了151的房间使用安排计划；
• 教會夏令會的講員邊雲波弟兄由於不慎跌倒，不能來講道，所以劉梅碧儀牧師，章開第牧師，韋江牧師，潘儒逹牧師將任講員。
• 四月二十六日的教會受洗禮將有超過40位包括20來位青少年。
• 考慮到進一步幫助中文堂受洗候選人員的對委身耶穌基督的認識，提議有可能今年夏天對受洗班的講員做一些培訓。
• 母亲节中文崇拜将请李秀全牧师讲道。
• 開第牧師外宣計劃是四月24-26在“新英格蘭華人基督教會”佈道。 6月20日參加匹茲堡中國教會50週年紀念活動。

開第牧師還就最近的教會事項做了簡短的補充：

• 春季佈道會成功舉辦。對決志者的跟進很關鍵；
• 城區分堂最近有11位受洗。

執事會報告

海國執事讚揚了最近完成的家訪，佈道會的順利進行，超過3000人次數，其中50-60位決志信主，我們需要增加更多的跟進家訪。

執事會提名及提名委員會

煜光长老提出了执事提名委員會候选人的条件，整個過程由長老團通過。今年的提名委員會（“DNC”）是：何煜光（主席），王继勇，李新宇，盧漢台，杨孟珊，凱紀德，夏宗蓓 。執事候選禱告事項由煜光長老擬定，交由張應元、盧植德牧師牧師協助印刷。

甘良生執事由於工作變動，已正式辭去執事職務。長老團指定了臨時代理執事候選人來接管甘良生執事的工作。由利欽長老和克傑長老做最後的家訪工作。

南區事工主要同工團隊(“CCT”)主席

長老會通過利欽長老代表南區的提議，選邵麗芳做下任的南區事工主要同工團隊(“CCT”)主席。

業務培訓的支持

德禮長老提出計劃，由人力資源委員會通過審查教牧同工的福利政策，以及相關的牧師活動經費，內部的財政服務，非營利組織的規定，長老會批准了計劃，並提出今年五月一日起生效。

社區外宣委員會

因為主席出差，討論事項延期。

事工审核時間安排

長老會討論了事工檢討關於未來中文堂崇拜和網絡工作的合作分工事項。

教會會員座談會

長老會討論了今年四月十九日有關教會建設的會員意見匯總。

中午12:37，盧忠信长老做会议结束祷告。