FilamBusinessMeeting

  Filam Aug, 2021 By-Laws PDF Agenda Business Meeting - December 12, 202 1 Agenda:  1.  Call To Order: 2.  Devotional / Shared Prayer 3.  Establish Quorum 4.  Review and Approve Agenda 5.  Review and Approve Previous Minutes 6.  Treasurer's Report 8.  New Business 9.  Reports 10.  Recap:  Decisions / Action Items  11.  Closing Prayer 12.  Adjourn 

 1. Reading of minutes.  2.Quaterly Financial Report by Jen Gonzaga April - June 2021 Income $16,088.55 Expenses $14,536.08 Assets $116,516.92 3. Sound system and other equipment from upstairs need storage. 4. Visitor's card to be turned in to the ushers after the announcement in front. 5. OBI is for training leaders. Pastor Bong made a motion that students be reimbursed at least 75% of their tuition. Approved.  6. Covid protocol needs to be observed i.e. temp check, mask 7. Sunday school teachers  Donna, Gina, and Jean are ready.  College students can be trained to help the children in church.  Julie Carlin stepped down. 8. Church anniversary  Sept 26. 9. VBS success 116 registered,  41 accepted Christ. 10. Acceptance of New Members  Donna Roldan,  Lourdes B,  Carnation Inong and  Gina Maban.

 1. Sunday service- Guests are attending more regularly. Sunday school should start and end on time. Jenn G suggested that worship music is a good cue to start the service. 2. There is a need for back up teachers for children's Sunday school.Tess Gante volunteered to train new sets of teachers namely Gina Mahan, Louder Barraca, Carnation Inong, Donna Roldan. 3. Deacons to assist the Pastor during altar invitation.  4. Temperature check is still needed before entering lanai for Sunday school or the chapel. 5. Review of 5 star treatment. For now, Pastor, Deacon and person who invited the guest/s will do the follow up.  6. Ushers to log in guest name and info through messenger using Google docs ( Connection Card).Hard copies of the guest card to be given to church clerk (Jo) who will send the link through text. 7. MFABC equipment upstairs of the church MBC has to emptied out. Trustees i.e. Randy to make an inventory. 8.  Business meetings every 3 months. Next is August ...

A sample agenda to follow:  Opening with Prayer Meeting Called To Order Financial Report Minutes of Last Meeting Old Business New Business Motion To Adjourn

The success of a business meeting is determined by how prepared one is for the meeting.  Most pastors and organizations desire to have a smooth transition between items discussed or voted on.  Having Robert’s Rules of Order is nice to have on hand but it is not necessary to conduct a successful business meeting.   Listed below is an outline that most churches and organizations use for their business meetings.  It is a simple outline that can be used with any type of meeting, big or small.  It is good to also prepare an agenda outline for all members. A sample is provided at the end of this article. Suggested Outline: MEETING CALLED TO ORDER.  The chair will call the meeting to order, which means that the meeting is officially starting.  The secretary calls roll to establish a quorum (50% + 1) to establish that one has a majority of its members attending this meeting to conduct business, changes, or elections on behalf of the church or organization...

As a Baptist, I am committed to congregational church government. Unfortunately, some churches practice an unhealthy form of church government which does more harm than good. In these cases, acrimonious business meetings are usually a clear sign of a church that has an unhealthy inward focus and is in decline, and such hostile meetings are counterproductive to fulfilling the Great Commission. Thom Rainer comments on this problem: “Church business meetings become arguments over preferences and desires.”[1] While business meetings can be a great cause for anxiety, they need not be. Here are some ideas for avoiding acrimonious business meetings in a local church: 1. Don’t have monthly business meetings. Quarterly business meetings are more than sufficient to address a church’s needs. When business meetings are held too frequently, committed members become weary of another request by the church for their time and they often stop attending. Unfortunately, highly motivated and divisive peopl...