2/19/08 Vestry Minutes

St. Peter’s Vestry Meeting
2/19/08

Meeting attended by: Fr. Kirk, Mary Marguerite Kohn, Joel Ballard, Angela Mitchell, Eric Samuels, Don Cahoon, Guv Mitchell, Tom Baxter, Beth McSweeney

The meeting convened at 7:30 p.m.

Bible Study, prayer and listening post were followed by:

¨ Minutes from previous (January) meeting accepted as written
¨ Treasurer’s report, presented by Kirk in John Francis’ absence
¨ Rector’s report – Kirk thanked everyone for participation in the Vestry Retreat. Kirk noted that some office hours are being covered by volunteers and Brenda is holding her own at this time, considering her time limits. At this time, some tasks are falling to Kirk and John that normally would have been covered by Bev. Smith Ave’s oil tank needs to be replaced, and there are roofing issues that need to be addressed, lighting upgrades are needed. Small groups need to re-group. Brackets that hold the processional cross have been replaced thanks to Dave Bryan. We are exploring replacing the sanctuary lamp due to some irreplaceable parts. Some fluorescent indoor and photocell outdoor lights replaced. BGE knocked down the light @ the bottom of the hill; getting any movement from them for replacement may be an issue.
¨ Senior Warden report – Electrical repairs; lighting and wiring upgrades (mainly safety upgrades)
¨ Junior Warden – no report
¨ MM will be leading a “spiritual listening” group. She anticipates that there would be room for a maximum of 6 people in addition to her, due to the nature of the type of group.
¨ Building Together groups:
- Phil reported on the meeting with the parish on 2/17 regarding “Building”; March 1st the food pantry is to be replenished by Armand Kinslow’s scout troop.
- Craig Stuart-Paul took notes on the “House” portion of the meeting
- John French took notes for the 3rd group
- Eric will start us moving again via email on our groups. We need to organize sub-committees and get parishioners involved
- There was a request to list the “original” groups (service/outreach, worship, evangelism, education, pastoral care, stewardship)
- We need to have our groups cover the areas that were originally covered by the 9 groups
¨ Kirk described the idea of “Mr. Somebody” (a cut-out of a person that we could attach sticky notes to of things that “somebody” needs to do to encourage volunteerism in the parish).
¨ There is a “Holy Hospitality” book on its way that looks at every aspect of parish life – Kirk will be talking with Phil Shaw and Anne Pounder
¨ Eric suggested that we have an annual event
¨ Kirk noted that there is no July 4th service
¨ Bishop visit (annual visit) will be the 1st Sunday in June (which is June 1st)
¨ Confirmation will be at the Baltimore Cathedral on March 30, 2008.
¨ Stewardship/Finance could look at pricing of utilities, and other possible vendors, due to costs of utilities.
¨ Mardi Gras – it was noted that “family style” service of food seemed to work well to promote everyone being able to spend time with each other (this was an Anne Pounder suggestion); we also requested that everyone go up for the service and any “clean-up” volunteers were asked to not miss out. This seemed to work (no one stayed down, but Starr Hall was cleaned up quickly). Beth thanks everyone for their help!
¨ Meeting concluded at 9:30 p.m. Respectfully submitted by:

Beth McSweeney