Learning Ministry Team

Last meeting: June 10, 2008

Attendees:
Jill Gretzinger

Peter Peregrine

Staff: Anita Damon

Excused:
Donna Haberland

Barry Hoff

Lisa Hoff

Pamela Knaack

Kathie Kommers

Gloria Luebke

Pastor Lyle

Sharon Orsted

Items that may require Council action: None

Items that may require budget/finance coordination: None

Important items of information:

CHART History Subgroup is sorting memorabilia for Aug. 13 North Site 10^th Anniversary.

Vacation Bible School is Aug. 4-7: Rainforest Adventure

Preschool curriculum evaluation: Task Force has completed their work. The decision is to continue with the current curriculum. Kristi Picken will help coordinate library books to read for the Bible story.

Discussed ELCA churchwide Book of Faith Initiative. Since the discipleship model encourages reading the Bible as one of the marks of discipleship, stay with our current terminology instead of “Book of Faith Initiative” terminology at this time. Too many different descriptions are confusing.

Develop ways to emphasize reading the Bible; e.g. read New Testament in a year, read Bible as a family

Review the terminology Andy Moscinski introduced with Family & Youth Ministry to be consistent in communications.

Library: new logo for library being used in newsletters and print; new library books purchased at synod assembly by Mil Herder

Wednesday LIFT: put invitation in newsletter for members to lead 1-3 week workshops on an area of their passion or specialization; Consider ways to refresh the prayer emphasis in the fall.

Adult Learning Time: Peter Peregrine volunteered to lead Sunday Downtown Adult Learning Time in the fall.

Bethel Bible: need to contact Mary Vandenberg to see if she can teach in the fall.

Member involvement: Karen Herbrich, Health Ministry Task Force & Learning Ministry Team are working on ideas to increase involvement of parents of children baptized at FELC. Will team with LMT in some areas. This may be an area to develop for a grant request. Resource people Lori Hartz, Lou Chicquette.

Teacher Recruitment: will post needs in newsletter and bulletin board. Pamela is writing an article from a new teacher viewpoint for the newsletter.

Confirmation parent evaluation summary of replies being e-mailed to those who participated and gave their name on the evaluation or attended the forum. Will have a few parents help review changes for the fall.

Spiritual Gifts: Pastor Dismer reported from Congregational Life that they’d like to use the Spiritual Gifts Inventory as a part of fall Time & Talent awareness. LMT strongly agreed with the idea and suggested we have them available when church directory photos are taken.

Lay school: is accepting applications for the fall.

Submitted by:
Anita Damon