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Our Savior Lutheran ChurchMLC Meeting – 02/19/18

AGENDA

Opening devotion and prayer

Minutes Previous month (Attachment I, page #2)

Financial Report Previous month (Attachment II, page #4)

Old Business Ministry Teams

o YMT (Attachment III, page #9)o CMT (Attachment IV, page #11)o Stewardship (Did not meet in December)o Trustees

Task Forceo Discovering Our Future Together

Jim Nord TSP Beckenhauer Construction

Reportso BLM (Attachment V, page #12)

Other

New Business 2420 W Omaha Ave

o New ministries (Attachment VI, page #13)o Names of rooms (Attachment VII, page #15)o Rental policy o 4/6/2018 Appreciation Evento Not currently in scope of work (rough estimates)

Sanctuary $500,000 Additional parking $500,000 Narthex $150,000

Staff updates LCEF (Attachment VIII, page #16) Intern (Attachment IX, page #18) Insurance

Closing prayer (Next meeting Monday March 19th at 5:30

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(Attachment I-Last Month’s minutes)

Our Savior Lutheran ChurchMLC Meeting – 01/17/18

AGENDA

Opening devotion and prayer

Present – Kent McCallum; Mike Wilke; Pastor Lee Weander; John Pile; Joe Cipra; Kyle Korth; Todd Mink; Dennis Beltz; and Jason Doele.Absent – Su Fisher

Minutes Previous month (Attachment I, page #3) Motion made by Beltz to approve the minutes, seconded

by Cipra. Motion passed.

Financial Report Previous month (Attachment II, page #5)

o Funds Non-dedicated funds (Attachment III, page #13) Special (Attachment IV, page #14)

o Checking account balance January 1, 2017 $11,235.66 December 31, 2017 $32,032.92

o Profit/Loss 2018 Income $945,632.70 +$5,000-year end gift Expenses $1,010,743.64 Profit/loss($65,110.94) ran a deficit for 2017

o Funds received to date for Point Me Campaign Received before campaign $51,166.92 Received non- pledged $17,725.00

Send a letter to Christ Lutheran and Lutheran High about lower involvement from Our Savior Lutheran. Look at reallocating Special Fund accounts to needs at the new church.

Motion made by Beltz to approve the Financial Report, seconded by McCallum. Motion passed.

Old Business Ministry Teams

o YMT (Attachment V, page #15) reallocate funds to Youth Ministryo CMT (Attachment VI, page #16)o Stewardship (Did not meet in December)o Trustees

Meeting in the new building Car Wash-Rent and LHNE – may take it for storage and will move it, make room

for parking Pews – will give away

Task Forceo Discovering Our Future Together

Jim Nord – working hand on managing the construction of 20

TSP Beckenhauer Construction LCEF BLM (Attachment VII, page #17)

Not yet transferred $297,405.84 Interest due$8,139.91 – cost us $4,000 to get LCEF to fix this extra

charge, put our payment on auto EFT to LCEF Permission to set up auto pay

Reportso BLM (Attachment VIII, page #18)

Other

New Business 2420 W Omaha Ave

o New ministries (Attachment IX, page #20) – lots of volunteers for new buildingo Custodial contract – have Service Master give us a bido None construction expenses – building fund to expense

Insurance Utilities

o Construction expenses RTU #2: $170,334 Narthex Area per current - addition to construction estimate RTU #2: $150,620 Narthex Area without branch duct

o Not currently in scope of work (rough estimates) Sanctuary $500,000 Additional parking $500,000 Narthex $150,000

Car o Donated by Dickie Fernau - donated a car o Donated through Norfolk Family Coalition - $250

Nebraska District Inforo Voting delegates for 2018 District Convention (June 15/16) (Attachment X, page #21) –

in Kearney, BLMo Capital campaign (Attachment XI, page #22) – District Capital Campaign, no donation by

Our Savior Lutheran Staff updates – Christine and Trish – Stand-alone ministries LCEF – Previously discussed

Worship – consolidating Saturday pm services, some concerns on attendance? Parking concerns going forward.7:05 pm Closing prayer (Next meeting Monday February 19th at 5:30)

Respectfully Submitted,

John PileSecretary

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(Attachment II-Last Month’s Financials)

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(Attachment III-YMT)MLC February 2018

Family Life -2yr old -18years olds Members and Visitors

o 1291= 0yr old – 12th Grade in the system o 1097 = 2yr old – 12th Grade in system o 306 = 7th-12th graders in the system

o Weekly Average Attendance XOS = 127o Weekly Average Attendance Youth Ministry = 233

PCE o 2017- 2018 year 57 kids for CLS and 16 for LHNE

o September meal brought in $305, December meal brought in $602, February meal brought $895

o Meeting January to discuss February meal and Fun Run. February 10-11 handout information and packets to all families.

Need more families to step up and lead the day of the event Those who didn’t pick up they will be sent home through the schools Registrations and Posters at LHNE and CLS as well

Youth Ministry o Transform 3:18 - School Year Activities September - May

Jr High Sundays 9:15-10:15 3 main leaders, 1 AID, 25-30 weekly

Sr High Sun 9:15-10:15 4 main leaders – 1 Aid, 20—25 weekly

High Small Groups Wednesdays 7:45-9:00pm 4 groups this year, 30-40 average people a week New series kicking off this January

o Confirmation – 69 youth total in 1st and 2nd year class Pastor Lee, Pastor Ryan and Christine rotate teaching and working with small group

guides Meet Feb 21, March 7, and March 21 during lent as small groups

o Fundraisers – September begins Donuts earn average $300 monthly Pies October – sold 516 pies (profit almost $3000) Lenten Meals February 14 and March 21 and Envelopes April 8- 29.

o Milestones – Graduate Celebration May 6 – meeting date at new building April 22nd 8am or 9am

o Events – October 22nd 6-8pm Fall Event – Jr and Sr High – 30 participants November District SR Youth Gathering – November 17-19 – 15 participants November 29th Sr High Vets Home December 3rd Cookie Delivery 12:30-4:00pm – Jr and Sr high (37 youth + adults) January 19-20 lock in Winter Olympics – Jr and Sr High

February Sr high Vets Home – Feb 21 March 4th UNL service Sunday – Jr and Sr High March 16-17 Confirmation Retreat (with St Johns BC, Grace and Christ Lutheran)

Youth Ministry SUMMER 2018o Mexico Mission Trip –July 20-27 2018 - 3 Adult and 4 youth signed upo LVR Colorado Trip –July 21-28 2018 - 2 Adults and 8 youth signed up

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o Girls Book Club – 7th-12th grade girls (Rachel Rardon), Wild Wednesdays –every Wednesday events(Cara Riese) , Sr High Bonfires – Every Sunday (Myron and Clint)

Working on summer events now, Intern, Etc. NEW BUILDINGo Welcome Crew – May o Confirmation Meal Coordinators – May o Food Coordinators – May o Youth Room Design Team – in progress NOW o Welcome Center – March 14th 6-7pm

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(Attachment IV-CMT)

MLC monthly update February

1. Xplore Our Savior Ministry Team a. 97 people (includes weekly and Sunday volunteers)b. New volunteers

i. Susie Korthii. Devon Maly

iii. Jess Gallc. Need 2 Guides

i. Nursery (Jennifer Bazyn’s small group)ii. 2nd gr. (Bredehoeft’s small group)

2. Background checksa. All team members are finished (except 2)b. Pastor Lee will call Stu Milligan and Melissa Fehrsc. One volunteer, has been on team for 5+ yrs., is not interested in revealing her SS# to a company

(she was my long term shopper)3. Church service involvement

a. XOS, Sunday school to sing at church service Mar 3 and 24 (Palm Sunday), and Apr 21 4. Room 56 Expansion- leaders Mike Long/ Matt Sharp

a. Spring activity- Service Project Orphan Grain Train/ Mercy Mealsb. Josh Rausch, Director of Camp Luther, planned speakerc. Thoughts of greeting at the doors for 10:30 services

5. Director of Camp Luther will come to encourage camp experience to a. XOS, Sunday school kids b. Their parentsc. Possibly during church services

6. VBSa. Plans started

i. July 22-26 w/ program night of 26ii. Pool Party Celebration July 27

iii. Two Co-Directors in placeiv. Curriculum narrowed to 2 v. On line registration in place

7. Space Issues continue

Trish Weander

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(Attachment V-BLM)

Our Savior Lutheran ChurchBLM Meeting – 2/5/2018

Meeting Minutes

7:00 pm – Devotion & PrayerReady, Set, Go sermon series. Not volunteer, its Service. Acts 6.

Minutes From Previous Meeting: Les motioned, Steve F second. carriedOld BusinessPastor Talk:

- Pastor Lee: Going well. Started a Leadership training with some other Pastors around Northeast Nebraska. Really enjoying the sermon series.

- Pastor Ryan: Leadership training. Happy with all the members signing up to serve. Pastor’s wifes retreat this weekend. Saturday night service going well.

- Pastor Frank Favre: MIAMLC Report:

Reviewed.Building:

Discussed Saturday evening service, how it’s going. Times at new building might shift a little bit, yet to be decided.

Wall framing starting this week and then electrical, drywalled in about a month from now.Member Care

A lot of new families coming. Some new groups starting.Member care, watching the backdoor, working on calls and visit.Steven’s Ministry, 13 people going through the training right now. All are excited to get going.

New BusinessVisitor follow-up, 7 minutes is when someone decides they will stay or not. So how important the First

Impressions Team is. How many visitors and absent members, how do we get them connected and want to be there. Discussion on connecting, how to connect, how to identify.

Campus security, Norfolk PD doesn’t have any active killer training. Jim Stover does some active killer training for Nebraska State Patrol, and willing to maybe do some training. In a couple months after Easter the new building would be fairly laid out, to do some training there. End of April first of May.

CCF coming up, are we doing a Service. Casting Crowns on August 4th.Second Sunday of September the grand opening or special kids. The 3rd Sunday of September XOS will

start. President Snow will be around for some of it.Easter will be at Divots’.Maybe VBS with Christ Lutheran this year.

BLM Present:

P Lee, P Ryan, Clint B, Paul C, Les H, Perry M, John G, Alan S, Steve F, Steve K, Jason K, Bob M, Jacob S, Mark J, Dale C, Kerry W, Scott C, Troy T,

Monday March 5th, next meeting, at the new building.

Adjourn 8:35 pm, Lord’s Prayer.

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(Attachment VI-Ministry Opportunities)

First Impression Team7........Parking Lot Attendant(s) – Assist worshippers as needed by directing traffic before and after services.84......Door Greeter(s) – Greet worshippers before and after church as you hold and open the door for them.30......Welcome Center Attendant(s) – Provide help for those seeking additional information.81......Worship Greeter(s) – Welcomes people into worship.30......Usher(s) – Assisting worshippers during church.46......Coffee Attendant(s) – Prepare and serve coffee.12......Children/Youth Ministry Check-In – Assist students and families as they check into children and youth

ministries.13......Facility Care – Keeps up a clean appearance of the facility on Sunday mornings.9........Childcare – Provide childcare for volunteers during the non-educational hour for newborns – Third

grade.10......Graphics/Banners- make/design artwork to enhance the message

Youth Ministry Team2........Youth Ministry Welcome Crew – Welcome families to youth ministry events before weekly events on

Sundays and Wednesdays.9........Confirmation Fall Class Meal Organizer – Organize four weeks of meals for 30-40 youth in the fall.

Work with other adults on providing and serving meals. Food can be homemade or restaurant bought with church budget.

10......Youth Ministry Jr and Sr High Room Design Team – Work with other adults and youth on finding furniture and items for the youth room in the new building.

3........Youth Ministry Food Coordinator – To provide snacks and meals for Wednesday evening Sr High Small Groups.

3........Youth Worship Musicians/Vocals Wednesday Nights - Work with Jordan Miller and other adults and youth on leading two worship songs on Wednesday evenings.

Children’s Ministry Team8........Check In – Oversee computerized check-in stations, registration and visitors.13......Greeters – Greet families at the door and hallways on Sunday mornings. Help families and children get

settled if they are new to our church.1........Tech – Oversee any needs with the use of computers, VCR’s, TV’s, projectors, sound systems, lighting

systems, microphones, etc. during the week, work through any revamping that needs to be done with the equipment.

8........Substitute – Fill in for an Xplore Our Savior Sunday School ministry team member.1........Sub Coordinator – Organize and fill substitute needs.

A full list of substitutes will be provided.1........Prize Patrol – Organize and run prize patrol.10......Bulletin Boards – Decorate bulletin boards for events and occasions.New. .PuppeteerNew. .VBS

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Office Team11......Wedding Coordinator – Help the Bride and Groom to make sure that all things go well with their

wedding ceremony.5........Food Pantry Coordinator – Call volunteers to work, and set up the schedule for workers.2........Meals on Wheels Coordinator- Call volunteers to work and set up the schedule for the workers.27......Volunteers – Money Counters, (count all the offerings from the weekend services); Bulletin Stuffers,

(help to put the bulletin and inserts together for the weekend services); Office Help, (answers phone, greets visitors, help with any mailings or copying that needs to be done).

New. .Funeral Helpers – Help to prepare the food, set out place settings, serve, and cleanup.

Adult Ministry Team13......Stephen Minister – Be the embodiment of Christ as you serve those in our congregation who are amid

trying or difficult times.1........Bible Study Leaders – Lead Bible Studies on Sunday morning for members of our congregation.5........Small Group Leaders – Lead adults in connection with one another and God’s word.12......Prayer Ministry – Connect with other members of our congregation as you pray for members in need.

Worship Team15......Musician – Sing or play and instrument, assisting with leading congregation in song.9........Slides – Clicking through lyrics and slides.6........Audio - Turning up or down sound during worship.1........Camera – Maneuvering camera to focus on speaker.5........Stage Design – Decorate/construct elements that correspond with holidays/sermon series.4........Stage Hands- Moving items on/off platform.21......Scripture Reader - Reading the scripture lessons in church on an appointed weekend.

220 Individual538 Ministries volunteered for at this time

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(Attachment VII-Floor Plan)

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(Attachment VIII-LCEF)

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(Attachment IX-Intern)

Our Savior Lutheran ChurchNorfolk, NE

Pointing People to Christ

Summer Youth Ministry Intern Ministry Description

PURPOSE: The Summer Youth Ministry Intern will provide leadership in designated Junior High and High School Youth Ministry programming. The Summer Youth Ministry Intern teams with the Director of Family Life and volunteer leadership assisting the youth and families of Our Savior Lutheran Church to achieve its Mission of pointing people to Christ.

QUALIFICATIONS: The Summer Youth Ministry Intern shall: - Be committed to the Lord and His Church by word and example. - Be a motivated, passionate, Gospel driven individual that is committed to excellence. - Be comfortable to work with youth and adults.- Be organized and detail oriented when planning for ministry events, but willing to be flexible in the face of

potential, unexpected change. - Exhibit a positive, enthusiastic, and encouraging attitude. - Be at least a senior in high school by the end of May 2018. - Interested in exploring, learning, and planning youth ministry opportunities.

MINISTRY RESPONSIBILITIES: GENERAL DUTIES

- Assists in youth ministry by implementing the mission of Our Savior’s youth ministry to Point People to Christ.

- Assist in planning Wild Wednesday by working with youth and adults as well as regular worship is assumed.

- Develop intentional relationship with junior high and high school youth and families. SPECIFIC DUTIES: Wild Wednesdays - Jr. High and Sr. High Events

- Assist planning Wild Wednesday activities. - Coordinate adult chaperones, drivers, and supervisors. - Develop a devotion and theme of the night for each event. - Oversee and organize each event. Keeping things on track with time. - Other duties as mutually agreed upon.

Sr High Youth Group - Assist adult youth mentors in Sr High Youth Group Events TBD- Encourage and promote youth group events and bible study

TERM OF SERVICE: - Starting Date: end of May 2018- Completion Date: August 2018

RESPONSIBLE TO: DCE Christine Ekberg, Director of Family Life

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COMPENSATION: - $900.00 for 10 week period, 10hrs a week - Payment made every two weeks. - Intern is asked to work at least 10 hours per week including events, bible studies, and preparations. - Intern will need to provide their own transportation to/from work/ministry events.- If situation allows more than one intern the compensation and time can be split among the interns. Applications available online and in the church office. Applications due to the church office by April 19th 2017

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Our Savior Lutheran Church - Norfolk, NEPointing People to Christ

Worship/Music Ministry Intern - Ministry DescriptionPURPOSE: The Worship/Music Ministry Intern will provide leadership in corporate worship as well as working with and inspiring other musicians/worship team members. The Intern teams with the Director of Worship Arts and volunteer leadership assisting Our Savior Lutheran Church to achieve its Mission of pointing people to Christ. QUALIFICATIONS: The Worship/Music Ministry Intern shall: - Be committed to the Lord and His Church by word and example. - Be a motivated, passionate, Gospel driven individual that is committed to excellence. - Be comfortable to work with youth and adults.- Be organized and detail oriented when planning for services, but willing to be flexible in the face of potential,

unexpected change. - Exhibit a positive, enthusiastic, and encouraging attitude. - Be at least a Junior in high school by the end of May 2018- Interested in learning more about Worship Arts and leading music in corporate worship. MINISTRY RESPONSIBILITIES: GENERAL DUTIES

- Lead/Assist worship and rehearsal with and instrument and voice.- Assist in planning weekend worship services, by selecting music and preparing worship team.- Assist in recruitment and training of new worship team members- Oversee organizational work on PCO

SPECIFIC DUTIES: - Preparing slides, videos, set-up, etc. needed for worship- Coordinate Worship team members. - Oversee and help train worship team volunteers- Other duties as mutually agreed upon.

Sr High Bonfires (Sunday Nights) - Provide Instrumental and Vocal Leadership- Prepare lyrics or other necessary items- Coordinate with Devotion leader for possible theme

TERM OF SERVICE: - Starting Date: end of May 2018- Completion Date: August 2018

RESPONSIBLE TO: Jordan Miller – Director of Worship Arts

COMPENSATION: - $2000.00 for 10 week period, 20hrs a week - Payment made every two weeks. - Intern is asked to work at least 20 hours per week including weekend services, some staff meetings, and Sunday

night Bonfire. - Intern will need to provide their own transportation to/from work/ministry events.- If situation allows more than one intern the compensation and time can be split among the interns. Applications available online and in the church office. Applications due to the church office by April 19th 2018

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