Worship Ministry Team minutes

Last meeting: Jan. 13, 2009

Attendees:

Karrie Aaseby

Kathy Freeman

Carrie Kiekhaefer

Jamie Parma

Jeff Picken

Staff:

Pastor Detweiler

Melissa Moll

Excused:
Millie Rugland

Sarah Van Beek

Items that may require Council action: None

Items that may require budget/finance coordination: None

Finance/budget review:

• Look into possibly finding money in our budget to pay for a music coordinator for the 9:15 a.m. worship services.

Important items of information:

• Reviewed Thanksgiving services, which were well attended. We will keep the service schedules and sites the same for 2009.
• Reviewed Advent and Christmas service changes. We will need to coordinate the balcony decorations and the children’s choir performance next year. Jeff is looking into getting the processes for the Advent/Christmas decorating available online so it is easier to communicate what needs to be done. Services were well attended. Look into spreading out the choirs over more services and printing the hymns, as the Downtown Site ran out of hymnals at the 4:30 p.m. service.
• Jeff will continue working on getting the memorial list online. There will be a note in the bulletin with information on how to access it and how to get new ideas added.
• We will spend the majority of our next meeting planning our protocol group procedure.
• We discussed moving to two Downtown Site services to ease traffic congestion and reduce demands on our pastors. (A topic resulting from the “Ask the Pastor” feature.) After thoughtful discussion, we elected to continue the service schedule as is.
• We need more people to host the Wittenberg Choir members on Tuesday, March 10. Each host would accommodate two performers, provide beds that evening and breakfast the next morning.
• In lieu of sermons on Sunday, April 19, high school seniors will give faith talks at all services and possibly choose their favorite hymns.
• Our over-arching theme during Lent will be “Watch and Pray,” with sub themes for each Sunday. Looking ahead to next year, we would like to have something special for the Good Friday evening service.
• Regarding the 9:15 a.m. Downtown Site service, song leaders still are needed. There has been a good response from instrumentalists. It may be necessary to recruit a coordinator to arrange rehearsals. This would require additional funding for our personnel budget. Lee will begin introducing the jazz liturgy he has written at the 9:15 a.m. service during Lent. We heard some of the liturgy and it sounds exciting.
• We need new Worship Ministry Team members, particularly from the Downtown site. We were asked to find new recruits to join us.

Submitted by:
Jamie Parma