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WE ASPIRE to make our church community even better by reaching out in service to the wider community and reaching in to build our own. This is a vision that has emerged from intentional reflection and much discussion and debate within our congregation. To achieve our vision of a church that is growing, vibrant and welcoming, we need to invest now in our staff capacity.

Our Business Administrator, John Mercer, will retire in June, at the end of our church year. As a lifelong member of this church, for a decade John has brought intimate church knowledge and unique skills that we simply can’t replace. An ad hoc group carefully studied the problem, and recommends we hire two part-time staff: one to handle the necessary business of the church, and one to focus on membership, leadership, community engagement and communications. The staff reconfiguration is estimated to add $40,000 to the budget over last year. Read the committee report here.

The long, sometimes difficult deliberations to determine the use of the Stern bequest brought out a strong passion to serve the community outside our walls. While we are not doing nothing already, we’d like to build our capacity to provide for more community service and philanthropy. This includes a modest budget allowance for increased community philanthropy of ~$4,000 in 2013-2014.   

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