Notes from Vestry April 16, 2013

• Rector's Comments:
• • I gave a power point on the plan for the next year. It was called A Year of Discernment and Building and reflected the plan for the rest of the year. There is a two pronged plan. The first part is intensive discernment on the part of the parish as to where God is calling us. I am using the analogy of a soup pot. We will do lots of things like perhaps NCD, a parish conference, educational bits, congregational meetings and prayer activities designed to increase conversation, prayer and reflection. All of the ideas will go into an Evernote notebook for the leadership to check in with. The idea is that as we discern, God will guide us in the next chapter of our life together. The second aspect is building the healthy church as I outlined at the AGM with the addition of intentionally building community between the services.
• Janitorial: 
• • This is still in process, and a final decision will be reached by the next vestry meeting.
• Administrative Assistant:
• • We have received over 50 applications. We will narrow this down to 10 or so in the next week and begin interviews hopefully the week after that.
• Identity of Soup'd Up Worship:
• • The corporation decided that it was too early to make any final decisions about Soup'd Up Worship, and so we would wait until October to start answering the specific questions about what the service's ultimate purpose is to be.
  • We will however try to identity stats, make contact with new people, and try to follow up.
  • The Vestry approved a motion of support for Soup'd Up Worship as an outreach experiment of the congregation.
• Alpha 2013:
• • Rather than running our own Alpha, we will be in contact with Heartland Alliance church to see how we can assist them.
• Tofield:
• • I am no longer the rector Tofield. I have stepped down as of April 1st. Colleen Lynch will be their rector.
• Website Redesign:
• • We showed the vestry the website redesign that Chris did. Everyone is invited to look at it. We particularly highlighted the administrative aspect. We have turned all of the policies and job descriptions into searchable PDF's. 
• Assistant:
• • Chris has been away for a couple of weeks on study leave. Before that he put quite a bit of time into the redesign of the website.
• Financial:
• • We have a surplus of just over $6000. However, when you take into account the surplus being rolled forward from 2012 on a monthly basis, we have a deficit of $173.00 for the first quarter.
• Stewardship:
• • Gordon Voth reported the numbers from the last stewardship. There followed a lively discussion on what stewardship looks like in terms of its different meaning for different generations, what it will look like here and so on. Alison talked about the workshop she went to where the Diocese gave us a helpful book and lots of ideas.
• Youth:
• • Devon talked about our group here and the sleep over that she arranged for those from the winter camp that had been cancelled. She also talked about a big weekend that  she has planned taking a coach with the Diocese of Calgary to Sorento.
• Engineering:
• • The installation of the alarm system will start the week of the 29th of April. It shouldn't take more than a week. The question of monitoring still has to be determined.
• Wardens:
• • Alison floated the idea of community funding and having pay pal on the website. We will look into this.