Board of Deacons (“BoD”) Meeting Minutes

May 17, 2014

中文翻譯在段落D.

  1. In Attendance:
  1. Attendees: Christopher Cheng (Secretary), Phil Sailer, Loren Shih (Head Deacon), Ji-Yong Wang (Treasurer), Ruike Wang, Xin-Wen Wang, Haiguo Wu, Jimin Xiong
  2. Invitees: BoE members: Pastor Caleb Chang, Terry Yang (Board of Elders)
  3. Absentees: Joshua Chang, Lawrence Liang-Shang Gan, Chun-Yi Hu, Lance Pan

  1. Location: Conference room, church office building.

  1. Meeting Agenda & Minutes
  1. Meeting started at 9:09 am
  2. Opening Prayer - Deacon Loren opened in prayer.
  3. Senior Pastor Sharing and Update (Pastor Caleb Chang)
  1. There is a pastoral candidate for each of the open positions (Children’s ministry pastor and Chinese fellowship ministry pastor)
  2. Elders and pastors are working on the church's vision and mission.
  3. Gas line has been installed.
  4. The main building roof has started leaking.
  5. Pastor Caleb will be speaking at Chinese Bible Church of Greater Lowell next week.
  1. Board of Elders (“BoE”) Sharing (Elder Terry Yang)
  1. Elder Terry highlighted key points from the May BoE Meeting.  For more information, please refer to BoE May 2014 meeting minutes.
  1. Financial Report (Ji-Yong Wang)

Funds

Offering

Expense

Total

Cumulation

General

$140,828

$148,749

($7,921)

$282,260

Mission

$17,925

$28,027

($10,102)

$175,007

Capital

$487

$2,536

(2,049)

$478,344

CBE

$23,310

$8

$23,302

$641,508

SCM

$786

$361

$425

$38,879

* Note: If subtracting church main building re-roofing budgets, the available Capital Fund will be $338,344 on April 30, 2014.

  1. For the budget summary - up to April 30, our total expense is at 81.2%, and our total offering is at 99.9% of the total annual budget.
  1. The BoD spent most of the meeting sharing and praying for ministry and personal prayer requests.
  2. Meeting adjourned by Loren at 12:18 pm.

  1. 出席:
  1. 與會者:  鄭嘉文（秘書), Phil Sailer, 施志寧 (執事會主席),王繼勇 (財務), 王瑞珂, 汪新文, 吳海國，熊繼敏。
  2. 受邀者: 章開第 , 楊德禮（長老團成員）
  3.  缺席: 張子剛, 甘良生, 胡中義, 潘瀾 。

  1. 地點: 教會辦公樓會議室

  1. 會議議程及記錄
  1. 早上9:09開始
  2. 開始禱告 - 志寧
  3. 主任牧師分享和更新（章開第 牧師）
  1. 每一個職位空缺都有一個牧師候選人（兒童事工牧師和中文部團契事工牧師）。
  2. 長老和牧師正在努力於教會的異象和使命。
  3. 天然氣管道已鋪設。
  4. 主樓的屋頂已經開始漏水。
  5. 開第牧師將於下週在羅威尔中國聖經教會講道。
  1. 長老團分享（楊德禮長老）
  1. 德禮長老強調了五月長老團會議的重點。欲了解更多信息，請參閱2014年5月長老團會議紀要。
  1. 財務報告 (王繼勇)

*  若從可用的資產基金中，除掉教堂主樓重鋪屋頂的預算，2014年四月三十日的累計結存是$338,344 。

                                   預算小計 – 到四月三十日總支出是全年的 81.2%, 而總奉獻是總預算的99.9%。

經費

奉獻

支出

結存

累積結存

常費

$140,828

$148,749

($7,921)

$282,260

差傳

$17,925

$28,027

($10,102)

$175,007

資產基金

$487

$2,536

(2,049)

$478,344

教堂擴建

$23,310

$8

$23,302

$641,508

社區關懷

$786

$361

$425

$38,879

  1. 執事會成員用了會議大部分時間來進行事工和個人代禱事項的分享和禱告。
  2. 會議於12:18結束，志寧禱告。