Staff Meeting Minutes
April 22, 2008
Place: Pastor Paul’s house
Present: Pastor Paul, Pastor Don & Flora Chen
1. Prayer
2. 4/25 Friday night seminar “internet safety”
Pastor Don talked to John Karstetter on Mon. 4/21 regarding the outline of his seminar & the background of him. Pastor Don thinks the information is very help for the parents to receive to build awareness of internet safety. Let the parents to attend the seminar for this time. Then later if parents think they want their children to receive the information, John said that he is willing to come to our church again to give the seminar.
Ø Pastor Don will contact John and give him the time frame (8:00pm for the seminar) of this Friday night’s schedule.
Ø Flora will email to all CCC Adult for inviting to Friday night fellowship.
3. Prayer request for Brother Fozy: Flora will put on the bulletin for Fozy’s health.
4. Joint retreat
Ø Yukon rental agreement:
i. First Baptist Church Yukon confirmed that they received the agreement & $500 deposit. The $500 deposit will be returned to CCC in about 1 month after the retreat after Yukon church deducts any damage occurred.
ii. They will mail back the signed contract to CCC.
iii. $1600 rental fee is due 60 days before rental date which is 6/30. CCC will mail the check before 6/27. Flora e-mailed to Cerina & Yan to take care of this. Cerina will mail check to: First Baptist Church Yukon 15 S 6th St, Yukon, OK 73099
Ø Falls Creek contract: Deposit of $3004.80 and contract will be mailed to Falls Creek this Sat. 4/26. Pastor Don will contact Jennifer at Falls Creek to see if we can pay the balance at the end of the retreat.
Ø Put all the joint retreat information in CCC blog to CCC Joint Retreat blog. All new information will put in CCC Joint Retreat blog only.
Ø Regarding the $500 contribution from the attending churches: Pastor Liu will ask the attending churches to send the check to CCC by 6/30.
Ø Regarding $3500 Support from BGCT: Pastor Solomon will contact Patty Lane at BGCT for the check. (done. See the attachment #1 below )
5. Yilan mission
Ø English camp:
學校要先知道School needs to know課程大綱Teaching outline: Pastor Don will have the outline by 4/20 Sunday. 3 principles: simple, unique, appropriate.
Ø Flora will ask Pastor Liu:
A. if she has Sound system, if yes, we will borrow from her.
B. If not, ask Pastor Liu to check the price in Yilan.
C. If the price is under $100, ask Pastor Liu to buy one & CCC will pay back.
D. We will use the $1000 budget of donation to Yilan church to pay for the speaker.
Ø Transportation in Yilan: Flora e-mailed to Pastor Liu to arrange transportation from airport to Yilan.
Ø Pastor Don will e-mail sermon to James by 5/4 for translation to Taiwanese.
Ø Handbook is due on 4/29 Tuesday.
6. Dajia Ministry
Ø Sunday worship:
· Presider:Flora
· Praise leader & ppt preparation: Sandy
· Operate ppt: Dajia church
· Pianist: Dajia church
· Preaching: Pastor Paul
7. Blog information
Ø Spiritual journal from brothers & sisters will be posted on CCC blog. Seminary students’ spiritual journals will be posted on CCC Seminary blog.
8. Date Reminder:
Ø 5/3 Short term mission fundraising garage sale. Flora will put this item on the bulletin.
Ø 5/9-10 2 workshops in CCC
· 6/15 Joint worship
9. Guest speakers in Chinese side:
Ø 5/18 Rev. Guochao Fu付國朝牧師
3900 Swiss Ave #705, Dallas, TX 75204
fuguochao@gmail.com 214.824.3432
Ø 5/25 Rev. Stephen Hsieh.
Ø 6/8 Rev. Lian Jiang 蔣煉牧師
1708 Travis Ct. Allen, TX 75002
lianjiang@hotmail.com 972.390.0856
10. Out of town information:
Pastor Paul: 5/13-6/14
Pastor Don: 6/11-6/19
Pauline, Kirsten, Kristian: 6/10-6/26
Flora: 5/15-5/20, 5/30-6/29
Mike: 5/13-5/25
Mary: 5/13-6/2
John: 5/3-5/22
Anli: 5/12-6/9
11. 6/27-7/1/2008 DCCYC
12. 8/30-9/1 Joint retreat
13. .請各位執事收到教牧同工會議記錄後，給一個回覆。在回覆中只需寫上一個「閱」字(“read” )。若有任何不同的意見，請隨時溝通。有紅色字的地方是務求回覆的，謝謝執事們過往在會議記錄上，用「閱」(read)字來表達對教牧同工會的支持與鼓勵。盼望神繼續賜給我們有美好的交通。Dear Deacons: Please give us your response after receiving pastoral meeting minutes. We appreciate your support and encouragement through reading the meeting minutes & response. May God continue to grant good communication among us.
15. Close prayer
·(Attachment #1)
From: Solomon [mailto:Liu__Solomon@hotmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 2:01 PM
To: Lane Patty BGCT
Cc: Rev. Wang Paul; Chen Flora_CCC
Subject: Applying $3500 Allocation Budget for DFW CBC Labor Day Joint Retreat
Dear Director Lane,
Greetings! It was so pleased to see you and Lily at Austin on April 14.
As the convener of the coworkers meeting of DFW Chinese Baptist Churches Joint Retreat on Labor Day 2008, I am applying for the 3,500.00 allocation budget from GBCT. I wish you can send the check directly to Pastor Paul Wang or church secretary Sister Flora Chen of CARROLLTON CHINESE CHURCH, the church is in charge of retreat finance, and the mailing address is 3219 WELLINGTON ROAD, CARROLLTON TX 75007.
This year the location is Falls Creek Conference Center Oklahoma, the same as last year, and we have Dr. Simon Tsoi as the guest speaker. Wish you can join us, thank you very much.
May God bless you and you ministries.
In Christ
His servant
Solomon Liu
The Pastor of Glory Chinese Baptist Church
麥肯尼華人浸信會 