The Glen Waverley Uniting Church PSALTER
GLEN WAVERLEY UNITING CHURCH
MEETING OF THE CONGREGATION
To be held in the Church Hall at 11:30am on Sunday 29th July 2018 - following the 10:00am Combined Worship service.
AGENDA
1. Welcome and Apologies
Apologies: Heather Hon, Wendy Pepper, Evelyn and Herb Flemming, Beverly McGlead, Lynn Peters
2. Prayer
3. Confirmation of Minutes of Meeting held on 4th March 2018
The minutes of the December meeting of the congregation are at CongMeetingMinutes20180304. The minutes were approved without change.
4. Matters arising from the previous Minutes
There were no matters arising from the minutes that are not covered elsewhere in the agenda.
5. Correspondence
There was no correspondence.
6. Reports and Recommendations
6.1. Congregational Outreach Projects in 2018
Consider recomendations from the 2018 Congregational Outreach Projects selection committee (for decision).
2018 Congregational Outreach Projects selection committee chair or delegate.
6.1.1. Project Summaries
Details of the proposed projects are in the COP Brochure
6.1.2. Discussion
VidaFoo introduced the proposed projects and funds allocation. She explained that the Congregational Outreach Projects selection committee had given priority to projects that help communities help them selves.
RobinPope expressed concern that this approach diadvantaged projects that aim to help disadvantaged people directly.
CliffBaker expressed his view that the Cheltenham Cat Rescue Inc. project did not satisfy Congregational Outreach Projects selectioncriteria because funds were directed towards animals and not people. Some others in the meeting took the view that rescued cats can directly contribute to the well-being of lonely people.
CliffBaker proposed an amendment to proposed resolution 2 with the effect of reducing the supported porojects to 10 and reallocating funds initially proposed to go to Cheltenham Cat Rescue Inc.
While there was considerable support for CliffBaker's proposed amendment, there was a large group of people who did not support it. The Chair was of the view that it would be difficult to achieve concensus or agreement to it.
Some in the meeting suggested that a large meeting like this was not the right forum to commence a reallocation and that we should accept the work of the Congregational Outreach Projects selection committee who had considered the matters raised during the process of formulating their recommendations.
The chair asked CliffBaker if he could live with the recommendation of funding for the Cheltenham Cat Rescue Inc. project and agreement for the resolution enabling it could be supported by agreement
RobinPope requested that the meeting take action to have the provisions and procedures associated with selection of Congregational Outreach Projects revised. The meeting accepted this idea and resolution 6 (below) was drafted to implement it.
6.1.3. Resolutions
1. “The congregation resolves that all profit from the 2018 Fete is to be distributed to Charity" - Approved by concensus
2. “The congregation resolves that the 11 charities listed in the distributed COP brochure shall participate in the distribution of 2018 Fete profits" '- Not unanamous, but approved by agreement. 3. “The congregation endorses the Distribution of the 2018 Fete profits as shown in the COP Brochure for Profits of $20,000, 25,000 & 30,000" 4. “The Congregation resolves that the COP Committee be authorised to allocate profits intermediate to, or beyond those now approved" 5. “The Congregation resolves that the COP Committee is to advise the Congregation of the final allocation to all 11 charities, in the first available Bulletin after the Fete profit is finalised”
Some good news about some of our programmes (for information)
Treasurer or delegate (for information)
There is nothing specific to report. A representative of the PropertyCommittee will be available if there are questions.
Congregation meeting chair. It is proposed to conduct an election for church councillors on September 2nd. This year there are some current Church Councillors whose terms are expiring. While some may renominate, there will be four vacancies to fill. As has been the practice in the recent past, it is proposed to allow voting following each worship activity on the designated election Sunday. Details of the procedure will be available on http://wiki.gwuc.org.au/gwuc/CongregationalPage. I will be travelling in August and September. While most of the matters concerning election of Church Councillors can be dealt with remotely, I will not be able to supervise the election. I therefore propose that the congregation appoint another person to supervise the election of Church Councillors on September 2nd. WarrenGreenwood has agreed to make himself available for this task. The congregation appoints WarrenGreenwood as chair of the congregation for oversight of election of Church Councillors on September 2nd.
6.2. Ministry Team Report
6.3. Church Council Report
6.4. Finance Report
6.5. Property Report
7. Other Business
7.1. Planning for the election of Church Councillors
8. Benediction