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First Lutheran Church – Westboro

ANNUAL MEETING

February 7, 2016

The Annual Meeting of First Lutheran Church – Westboro was called to order at 11:36 am by Council Presi-dent Mary Wagenknecht.

MOTION by Joyce Peterson, second by Scott Brehm to accept the February 8, 2015 Annual Meeting minutes and the December 13, 2015 Special Congregational Meeting Minutes as presented. MOTION CAR-RIED.

Booklet of Reports

The 2015 Booklet of Annual Reports was reviewed and discussed.

The Parochial Report showed First Lutheran Westboro had 172 members as of 12/31/15. Average Sunday attendance in 2015 was 34, up from 31 in 2014.

Pastor Giese commented on how well the internship with Pastor Linda Strader is going. An application has been submitted for another intern candidate. Interviews will take place in the next couple of weeks. Pastor Linda Strader thanked the congregation for the opportunity to intern at First Lutheran.

The audit committee met on 1/20/16. All books were found to be complete and correct.

MOTION by Dennis Scheithauer , second by Lor i Hansen to accept the 2015 Booklet of Annual Reports as written. MOTION CARRIED.

Old Business – None.

New Business

Budget: The 2016 Budget was approved at the December 13, 2015 Special Congregational Meeting. The overall budget increase including shared expenses was $1,265.

Election of Officers

Congregational Secretary and Financial Secretary

Nominations for Congregational Secretary and Financial Secretary were as follows: ● Financial Secretary: Bernice Koch

● Congregational Secretary: Michelle Brehm

MOTION by J im Koch, second by Dennis Scheithauer to close nominations for Congregational Secre-tary. MOTION CARRIED.

MOTION by Dennis Scheithauer , second by Joyce Peterson to close nominations for Financial Secre-

tary. MOTION CARRIED.

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Nominations (volunteers) for additional Church Officers were:

Church Council: 2 (3-year term) Nominations were taken for two Council Members. Nominations were: ● Sadie Jensen

● Cathy Scheithauer

MOTION by J im Koch, second by Dennis Scheithauer to close nominations for

Council Members. MOTION CARRIED.

Conference Assembly Delegates: The conference is scheduled for March 6th at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Medford. Dennis & Cathy Scheithauer volunteered to attend the Conference Assembly.

Synod Assembly Delegates: (May 21st at Trinity Lutheran Church, Eau Claire) Left open – Anyone interested in attending the Synod Assembly can notify Pastor or Council.

Audit Committee: Nominees for the Audit Committee were Kari Rodman, Candy Zutavern and Mary Wagenknecht

MOTION by Joyce Peterson, second by Scott Brehm to close nominations for Audit Committee. MO-TION CARRIED.

MOTION by Dennis Scheithauer , second by Scott Brehm to close all nominations and elect nominees by unanimous ballot. MOTION CARRIED.

Other New Business: ● Christmas Day Worship: Christmas Day, 2016 falls on a Sunday. Pastor Giese is looking for feedback on whether or not to have a Christmas Day (Sunday) service as well as the usual Christmas Eve service. ● The church basement windows have been replaced. This coming Spring the well cap will also be replaced. ● Cooperative Ministry meeting representation from each congregation will be important as future decisions are made.

MOTION by Scott Brehm, second by Dennis Scheithauer to adjourn meeting. MOTION CARRIED.

Meeting was adjourned at 12:09 pm. Handouts: 2015 Annual Report of the Congregation

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2016 Parochial Report - Westboro

Membership as of 12-31-2015 Baptized Confirmed

169 123

MEMBERS RECEIVED

By baptism

Miranda Anne Pipkorn 1

Sylus David Peterson 1

Tessa Lorraine Voda 1

Mason Myles Pipkorn 1

By Affirmation of Faith

RuthAnn Pipkorn 1 1

By Affirmation of Faith (Confirmation

Emily Rodman 1

Ryan Patrick 1

Total received 174 126

Members Removed

Joelle (Judy) Kantola 1 1

Lost by death

Lorraine Killion 1 1

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Total removed 2 2

Membership as of 12-31-2016 172 124

Average Sunday attendance 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

31 31 34 36 31 34 40

Marriages None

Additional Funerals - Non-members None

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2016 Sunday school Report

We have 8 children in our Sunday school this year. We have 4 teachers and 1 confirmation student helping. We are still using the SPARK material this year. Both the teachers and the kids seem to enjoy using this material.

Our “Souper Bowl of Caring” collection started our year out. The congregation donated food and money for this cause. We col-lected 53lbs of food. All the donations were given to the Rib Lake food pantry.

On Mother’s day we purchased Carnations and handed them out to all the ladies that were at church that day.

We once again sold the “God’s Creation” calendars and notepads. All money from the fundraiser was used towards the boxes we pack for the Samaritan’s Purse Operation Christmas Child and also for Sunday school supplies and costumes that we needed for the Christmas program.

In November we packed 25 boxes for the “Samaritan’s Purse Operation Christmas Child” program. We always talk to the kids while doing this project so that they understand that the children getting these Christmas boxes don’t get anything else at Christ-mas time. We collected items and money donations from the congregation to help us with the cost of filling and shipping these boxes out. The Sunday school went out and bought any items that were still needed for the boxes and paid for shipping out the boxes. The kids always seem to have a great time packing these boxes. It is a highlight of our year!

We ended the year with our Christmas program. Our Program this year was “Larry King Live”. As always the children did a great job. It is so fun to see how the Sunday school children are growing up. All the children had speaking parts in the program this year. We handed out candy bags to all the kids at church that day along with ornaments for everyone in the church. We fin-ished out the morning by going downstairs for potluck and “Happy Birthday Jesus” cake.

We are blessed to be able to spend time with the Sunday school children!!

Starting balance - $801.25

Deposits – + 463.50

$1264.75

Disbursements - - 693.97

Ending Balance - $570.78

Submitted by Kris Gerstberger

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2016 Sunday School Report (DR) (CR)

AMT. OF AMT. OF

DATE DESCRIPTION DISBURS. RECEIPT BALANCE

starting balance

$ 801.25

01/11/16 Deposit - Offering

$ 38.00

$ 839.25

328/16 Deposit - Offering

$ 50.50

$ 889.75

05/01/16 Carnations to hand out to women at Church on Mothers Day

$ 36.93

$ 852.82

05/21/16 Treats for SS kids for last day of Sunday School $ 22.58

$ 830.24

06/02/16 Deposit - Offering

$ 35.00

$ 865.24

08/23/16 Youth Group Promotions - Calendars and notepad fundraiser $ 240.00

$ 625.24

11/05/16 Deposit - Offering

$ 44.00

$ 669.24

11/05/16 Deposit - Calendar sale

$ 296.00

$ 965.24

11/09/16 Northland outlet - items for Samaratains Purse christmas boxes

$ 75.15

$ 890.09

11/09/16 Family Dollar - items for Samaratains Purse christmas boxes

$ 75.75

$ 814.34

11/11/16

Kelli Bacholl - for items she picked up for the Samaratains Purse christmas boxes

$ 23.37

$ 790.97

11/10/16 Samaratains Purse - to cover postage for the christmas boxes

$ 175.00

$ 615.97

12/11/16 Eds IGA - items for the christmas bags we hand out to the kids

$ 45.19

$ 570.78

Totals

$ 693.97

$ 463.50

The following items were paid by cash ( this cash was from money collect-ed for the Calendar fundraiser).

items for Samaratains Purse xmas boxes - $8.49

Items for christmas program props - $17.85

items for christmas bags for kids - $5.67

Birthday Jesus cake - $20.00

Xmas present for Pastor Bob and Jo - $23.17

Total - $75.18