Pastor Don was grateful for Ginny & Mike Beamish, Ty Williams, and Mark Condy for filling the pulpit while he was on
vacation and sick with Covid. Christian Education Committee proposed hiring a part-time Family Minister Director to develop programs for our Sunday School age children and families and to bring more children into our church.
Membership and Outreach Committee will soon be collecting sweat suits for the Head Start Program. They will also have a barrel in the Narthex in December for Food for the Needy.
The Ministry and Worship Committee will be responsible for picking replacements when the pastor is absent. They will be holding the Mike Wilson Thanksgiving dinner on November 13th.
They will be hosting a light dinner, crafts, and tree lighting on the first Sunday of Advent on November 27th at 5:00pm.
Memorial and Endowment reported that there will not be any distributions of endowment money to the church this year
due to the behavior of the stock market.
The Visioning Team has put together a proposed vision statement that can be used to guide St. John’s for the coming year. They also announced that Joyce Swank is the new Event Planning Coordinator.
Submitted by Paul Shaffner
Council President