Present: Dale Carpenter, Sam Tuttle, Rod Denman, Joe Hudson, Wayne Hudson, Tyler McDonald
Guest: Jeff Garrison
- Joe Opened in prayer.
- Discussed visitation of Tom Collins –
- Put a ministry opportunity out on facebook (Sam got a call from Randy Collins during our meeting. Glad we were thinking of the family but did not want a public announcement and we took this down)
- talked about deacons visiting and doing a communion with them
- Jeff Garrison talked to us about information of Tim Billups speaking and inviting Temple members to Woodland Bible service on 6/25/2017
- Jeff had confirmed he had spoke about missions and that 30-35 people went there
- Jeff has a documented conversation of his talk with Tim and will send it us for record
- Jeff recommendations for our current Church situation
- at this point where we are as a church we may consider an interim pastor
- we need a new focus project or event for a purpose to focus on as a Church
- Need to start promoting Labor day event
- Maybe we need a work day for the building(like removing wallpaper and painting main hallways)
- Rod suggested community work projects that Temple could do(like a park clean-up day)
- Joe and Wayne talked about the back-to-school backpack project. Doing a round-up Sunday. (Amanda Kirkwood)
- Jeff talked about bathroom model needs. Suggest making our bathrooms bigger. Make 2 into one so there is a men’s at one end of the church and women’s at the other.
- Cleaning and organizing closets/storage
- Need to talk to Steve about how he gives a budget, and our decision to not candidate him as senior pastor…going to table it for after he comes back from vacation.
- Terry McClure (missionary) called office wanting tickets to go to the Creation Museum when they are here.
- Need to check with Deb & Boyd Huff to see if they can support this (August 12th will be here for about a month)
- Also asking about support for rental car for 1 week to 1 month (maybe see if Mike Bentley can help)
- Our missions budget currently only has $5,000 extra to work with for the whole year
- Marty Hullman preaching 7/2 and bringing us a resume for someone that wants to apply(Mark Smith)
- Discussed Sunday School about Ola as a teacher (will not be a lead teacher, but helping)
- Talked about interim pastor
- Discussion on who that could be and if we need one
- Not unanimous either way and discussion will continue if needed
- Talk about temp visitation pastor Tom Barnes
- At this time we are not sure that is the best thing to do
- Watchmen fellowship from ABC seminar in the fall….tabled (Mitch Bogger contact)