CBCGB Church Council Meeting Minutes, Q4 of 2012

        December 8, 2012

中文翻譯在末後段落

Present: 

1. Pastors: (Sr.) Caleb Chang, Steve Chang, King-Fai Choi, David Eng, Jennifer Lin, Sandy Liu, Chuck Lowe.
2. Elders: Chaw-Bing Chang, Ke-Chieh Chu (Chair), David Ho, Jack Hung, Ming Tsai, Terry Yang.
3. Deacons: Howard Chen, Emily Cheng, Joe Chiu, John Cintolo, Patrick Lin (Secretary), Wensong Pan, Loren Shih, David Tran, Ji-Yong Wang (Treasurer), Ruike Wang.

Invitees:

1. Elder Elect: Liqin Chen
2. Deacon Elect: Joshua Chang, Chunyi Hu, Lance Pan, Xinwen Wang.

Absentee: 

1. Pastors: Ju-Ta Pan, Jiang Wei.
2. Deacon: Philip Sailer (elect).

Pastor Caleb Chang starts this meeting with a prayer at 9:13 am.

1. Welcome new members: all newly confirmed council members introduce themselves.

2. Financial Report - as of the end of November (Deacon Ji-Yong Wang)

1. For the budget summary - according to the percentage of total budget of this fiscal year, total expense is at 33.6%, and total offering is at 42.2%.
2. No passing tithe offering bags in the Chapel for overflow on Sunday morning. Worship ministry should consider congregations to find a convenient way for tithe offering purpose.

3. Quarterly Pastoral Reports

1. Quarterly pastoral reports were distributed over e-mail earlier this week for council to review.
2. Please contact your pastors for more details of all church ministries.

4. Quarterly Board of Deacons (“BoD”) Report (Deacon Ruike Wang)

1. Thankful to all who have made extraordinarily from many aspects on deaconship and services this year.
2. Canonicalize our traditional Stewardship “council” as a committee, according to our church bylaws, to not be confused.
3. Thank you for all stepping down members, and look forward to building strong fellowship again with new members in the love of our Lord.
4. Re-roofing project has been long overdue. The newer budget for this project has been voted and approved.

5. ICF Budget Increase Request (Pastor David Eng)

1. 7~10 students from Gordon College would like to come to worship God with us weekly.
2. A van has been rented from Gordon College to take care of transportation needs.
3. $1,500 is proposed to compensate this extra transportation cost as a special arrangement.
4. Considering to establish a church policy to accommodate this type of situation for long run.
5. Current council has motioned, seconded, and voted to approve this request.

6. CBE Project Update (Elder K.C. Chu)

1. Survey results and analysis:

• among those returned results, there is 56% to support entire project for all planned items as well as financial needs, 38% to support planned items partially, and happen to have 6% of those who are totally against this plan.
• The total number of survey forms received is 206 with 15 from current council members.
• According to those partially supported items, “151 building remodeling” received as the least frequently selected unsupported item, and “Multi-purpose functional hall” received as the most frequently selected unsupported item, among those 38% who participated this survey.

2. Council members who has not submitted survey in written, please send it to Elder KC ASAP.
3. Financial pledge form for CBE project has been prepared and ready. Elder KC will modify this drafted form to accommodate time sensitive issues for better projection.
4. The pledged donation for the first phase of CBE is set to be ended by the December, 2013.
5. The deadline for congregations to return pledget forms is set to the end of January, 2013.
6. Elder KC and Sr. Pastor Caleb will discuss and decide when and how to pass the final pledge form to the congregations church wide.

7. Additional Sunday Worship Services (Pastor Caleb Chang)

1. Coworkers seem to be struggling during this experimental period of time for having an extra services in the afternoon.
2. The total number of worshipers are around 30 in average so far.
3. Even though, our sanctuary is not full, our overflow usage in the Chapel has reached to 90.

8. Membership/Directory Update (Deacon Patrick Lin)

1. Present Web & Cloud based church membership application system.
2. Give live demos of search and update members’ data, and followed by Q&A.
3. Propose access control examples, and ask BoE for guidance to the usage of this system.

Elder Chaw-Bing ended this meeting with a prayer at 12:25 pm.

Translation in Chinese

教牧長執聯會會議紀錄, 2012年第四季

2012年12月8日

出席者：

1. 牧師：章開第(主任), 張子義, 蔡景輝, 吳經權, 林珍妮, 劉梅碧儀, 盧植德。
2. 長老：張召斌, 朱克潔 (主席), 何明治, 洪榮宗, 楊德禮。
3. 執事：陳國榮, 劉安玲, 邱德肇, 沈約翰,  林有洧(書記)潘文嵩, 施志寧, 陳祥光, 蔡明哲, 王繼勇(財務), 王瑞珂。

受邀列席:

1. 已確認明年度長老：陳利欽。
2. 已確認明年度執事：張子剛，胡中義，潘瀾，汪新文。

缺席者：

1. 牧師：潘儒達, 韋江。
2. 執事：Philip Sailer

章開第牧師於上午9時13分作會前禱告

1. 歡迎新成員：由所有已確認的聯會成員自我介紹。

2. 財務報告 - 十一月底結算 (王繼勇執事)

1. 預算總結 -- 在此會計年度，事工總開支是預算的33.6%，總奉獻收入是預算的42.2%
2. 週日早上中文崇拜在福堂並無傳遞奉獻袋，崇拜部門事工負責人應考慮提供會眾較為便捷的方式。

3. 教牧報告

1. 教牧同工的季度報告，已於本週早些時候，以電子郵件分送至聯會。
2. 若欲知詳情，請直接與您的牧師們聯繫。

4. 執事會報告 (王瑞珂執事)

1. 感謝所有執事在今年許多方面的非常事奉。
2. 教會傳統中的“理事會”，因按照我們的教會章程，並在實質的位階上與其他事工平行，作為一個委員會，以避免與聯會造成混謠。
3. 謝謝即將卸任的成員，並期待著與已確認下年度新成員，在主的愛裡，再次建立強有力的團契。
4. 重新翻修教堂屋頂的工程已經期待已久。這個項目新的預算已經被批准。

5. 英文部大專事工經費增加 (吳經權牧師)

1. 7～10位哥頓學院的大專學生每週來母堂敬拜神。
2. 目前，我們的弟兄直接向哥頓學院租用箱型車來解決承擔交通運輸的需要。
3. 為此提出$1,500美元的一個特殊的安排，以補償這些額外的運輸成本。
4. 考慮建立教會政策，以因應這種類似的情況，作為教會長期運作的原則。
5. 目前聯會已提臨時動議，附議，投票表決，並批准此一請求。

6. 教堂擴建專案 (朱克潔)

1. 調查結果和分析：

• 從這些回收的結果中，有56％支持整個專案的所有計劃項目，以及財務的需要，有38％是支持部分計劃項目，並發現有6％的人完全反對這整個的計劃。
• 回收的調查表總數為206，包括從目前的聯會成員中收到的15份。
• 根據其中的38％的人參加了此次調查僅願意支持部分計劃項目之中，勾選不支持“151建築重整”的數量最少，勾選不支持“多用途多功能廳”則是數量最多的。

2. 聯會成員之中還沒有提交書面調查，請盡快將其發送給朱克潔長老。
3. 教堂擴建專案的財務認獻單已編制準備完成。朱克潔長老將再作適當的修改，以因應與時間相關的技術問題。
4. 教堂擴建專案第一期工程的財務認獻單，最後收件截止日期，設在2013年1月底。
5. 教堂擴建專案第一期工程的認獻捐款截止日期設在2013年12月底。
6. 朱克潔長老和章開第主任牧師將討論和決定何時以及如何傳遞最終的財務認獻單給全教會及各分堂的會眾。

7. 增加第二堂主日崇拜 (章開第主任牧師)

1. 在此試驗期間，同工在下午的時間有一個額外的主日崇拜，似乎很是掙扎。
2. 敬拜會眾的總數大約是在30人左右。
3. 即使大堂仍未坐滿，我們在主日早晨副堂裡的使用已達到平均90人左右。

8. 教會會友系統與名錄 (林有洧執事)

1. 向聯會成員作最新的網路雲端會友系統及其安全性的更新簡報。
2. 並現場實際展示演練搜尋會友資訊與更新資料，並回答問題。
3. 提供認證授權與安全控制例子，並請求長老團對此系統的開放使用，研議出規章準則。

盧植德牧師在下午12:28帶領全體與會同工作結束禱告。