Session Minute Hi-Lites
February 22, 2007 meeting

The Session met on February 22, 2007 with nine members present, our Moderator, The Rev. Dr. Charles Colson, and Commissioned Interim Lay Pastor, Henry Distler. The meeting was called to order by Commissioned Interim Lay Pastor, Henry Distler at 7:10 P.M. with devotions taken from Joshua and followed with prayer...

The business meeting was called to order by Henry Distler and the regular order of business began with the approval of the minutes and the financial reports.

Correspondence:

Outgoing:

• Letter requesting a transfer for Donald, Michele and Chad Heiney from Grace United Methodist Church, Catasauqua as per their request.
• Completed and sent Certificate of Transfer for Clifford Adams to St. Paul's UCC in Northampton.

Incoming:

• Letter from Teaching Presbyter, Steve Schusetts regarding the distribution of the Presbytery Newsletter
  
• Letter from Melody Faisetty regarding performance reviews and compensation of church employee(s).
  
• Flyer alerting our members of our congregation not to call or receive telephone calls for area codes of 809, 294 or 876 because it will be very costly and AT&T will not accept the responsibility..
  
• Received a listing of churches within Lehigh Presbytery that we are invited to pray for each Sunday. (March 4 - Slatington & St. Clair, March 11 - Stroudsburg & Summit Hill; March 12 - Tamaqua & Washington; March 25 - Weatherly & White Haven)
• Letter from Lehigh Presbytery announcing a Care Team Trip for Hurricane Katrina (Posted on the Bulletin Board)
• Flyer from Lehigh Presbytery advertising the Youth Triennium from 7/17-22/2007 at Purdue University
• Information for a seminar centered around grieving entitled "Spirituality" led by the Rev. Anne Huey.

The pastor's Office now has computer equipment and a computer table. Joanne Matthews was elected to serve as Assistant Treasurer and John Faisetty was elected as the 2nd. auditor.

Barbara Quigg reported on Winterfest 2007 and urged session members to make an effort to attend next year in order that our church might reap the benefits of all the information we can learn, to hear God's voice and to act on it from leading meetings, decision making, prayer, Bible Study and yes even stewardship techniques.

March 4th will be a Sunday dedicated to "Celebrate the Gifts of Women"

March 11th The Blue Grass Band will be with us.

Wow! The Youth Ministry made $835 on their Soup Sale and Joyful Noise offering.

If you're really looking for a treat in worship come on the 3rd Sunday of each month to hear our little ones sing some cute songs.

Sad to say, this month the Coordinating Team of Presbyterian women were unable to meet due to our snow storms. March 18th a Mini Bazaar after worship [Webmaster Note: Bazaar has since been cancelled].

The Board of Deacons are keeping themselves busy with visitations to our shut-Ins and their scheduled meeting is on March 11th.

If you haven't purchased your 150th Anniversary book as of yet, do so, as there are only a few left.

Thanks to Tammy Seidick who is gathering information for updating the church's web-site

Come one come all to a Game Night on March 17th.

The personnel committee is in the process of updating job descriptions and will be performing employee annual reviews as soon as possible

Sue Hoke agreed to fill the vacancy on the Board of Deacons.

The Church Information Form was completed, sent to the Presbytery Office for review by the Committee on Ministry and will be sent to Presbyterian headquarters in Louisville, KY.

CHES will have a pulpit exchange on April 29th. Henry will go to Emmaus and Rev. Doug Cronce will come to Hokendauqua. The next meeting of CHES is scheduled for April 15th at Slatington.

A CHES picnic is being planned and Sally Heffner, Jack and Alice Wall will represent Hokendauqua on the planning committee.

The meeting was closed in prayer by The Rev. Dr. Charles Colson at 9:15 P.M.

Submitted by Barbara R. Quigg
Clerk of Session

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