12/14/08Deacon Board Meeting

Deacon Board Meeting

12/14/08

2:00pm-5:00pm

 

Present: Pastor Wang, Pastor Don, Flora Chen, Cerina Chu, Mengpei Hu, Sandy Ting, Albert Pang, Mary Bush, Jian Jian Lu, Mike Lei

 

I.                   Devotions

Rev. 3:7-13. Pastor Wang shares his experience from the CA mission conference. Some things made him sad and disappointed. There are also some good testimonies.

 

II.                Last month’s minutes

-Wang Hui, Sandy, and Albert went to the bank to add signatures and remove the old signatures on 11/22nd.

-The deacon board voted to approve last month’s minutes.

 

III.             Financial Report/2009 Budget

-General budget deficit for November is $3160, $9689 offering and $13,022 expense. The mission offering is $2,765. The mission expense is $1,108. The overage is $1,657. The love fund offering is $120.

-The actual year to date offering is $115,833.37. The year to date expense is $144,037.39. The estimated net loss for year is $28,042.02.

-The current general fund balance is $15,424.43. Mission fund balance is $20,402.34. The love fund balance is $148.72. The building fund balance is $63,467.59.

-We will make sure the projector, computer, sound system are shut off and A/C shut-down before we leave the church.

-We will bring our own utensils to help church be more environmental conscious. The idea is to take care of our Heavenly Father’s world.

-Office supply is mostly paper cost. We can save money on printing, use both sides.

-Pastor Don will follow up on printer to be password protected. Pastor Don will call service about jamming on double sided copies with 5 or more papers.

-Pastor Don will order paper 6 months ahead of time. We have to cut it down to $500.

-We will set $100 for postage to send missionary offering.

-Machine supply is to fix A/C. The heater is fixed. The worship time is changed on outside sign.

-Kitchen supply – we will bring our own utensils. We will cut to $300.

-We will put 2009 church handbook content in monthly magazine.

 

Office Supply	$500 (Pastor Don)
Postage Supply	$100 (Wang Hui)
Machine Supply	$350 (John Xie)
Kitchen Supply, Repair and Janitor	$350 (John Xie)
Lunch supervisor	$100 (Jian Jian)
Telephone	>$40 (Pastor Don will check on VOIP plan)
Internet	$70. No static internet.
Telephone/Internet	$1320
CCC website	$0. Domain name already renewed for 4 years.
Marketing expense	$1480. (Flora will call newspapers to renew church information. We will keep 2 newspapers. Flora will call to cancel Dallas Chinese Times.)
Copier Maintenance	$1600. (Pastor Don) Pastor Don will check if we can reduce 2 copiers to 1 copier.
Contingency	$500. Pastor Wang and Flora’s printing expenses ($300), included in $500.
Utility – water	$1900
Utility – gas	$630
Electric	$5,500 (John Xie) Ask John to shop for new plan.
Lawn/weed/pest control	$1,200
Property insurance	$2000
Fixture & furniture	$1,700 (Mary) (equipment & computer)
Pastor Expenses – Chinese Cell phone	$1,200
Pastor Expenses – English Cell phone	$1,200
Pastor Expenses – Chinese Books and others	$408
Pastor Expenses – English Books and others	$408
Speaker fee	$900 (Albert) (change to $100, 9X)
Children	$100 (Mengpei) (Friday night fellowship)
Sunday school (under 12)	$300 (Mengpei) (we will use old material)
Baby sitting	$0
Library	$300 (Jian Jian watch budget) (Mengpei will take responsibility of library department)
Christian Education	$0 Combine with leadership training.
Worship	$1000
Leadership training/Adult Christian Education

 

 

IV.             2008 Budget

-We will meet again on 12/17 at 8:30pm.

 

IV.