Church Minutes

Bible Beggars Church

Josiahs Scott, Josiahs@trueconnection.org, www.TrueConnection.org

we probably need to start all learning how to take Church minutes:

https://www.perplexity.ai/search/f721e432-6b90-45c1-8ccf-266bbe5a550e?s=u

>> Updates, Decisions (Motions & votes)

>> Actions & Intent, prudence!

Contents

2023. 1

Nov 23. 1

Aug 23. 1

Jul 23. 2

Jun 23. 2

Apr 23. 3

Mar 23. 3

Feb 23. 3

Jan 23. 3

2022. 3

Dec 22. 4

Older Months for 2022. 4

Details. 4

Rules, Definitions, & Procedures. 4

A Good Faith Collaborative Effort 5

2023

Nov 23

11/25/23

Start and End Times: Sat 5:50pm - 7:07pm

Duration: 1hr 17min

Attendance: All

Updates:

Agenda: Counsel for disciples on property purchasing

Discussions:

-A property 7% below market value in an inflation market is a good deal

-Borrowing without interest is usually better than from a bank loan with interest.

Decisions:

-Move forward with offer contract

Aug 23

8/26/23

Start and End Times:5:42pm to 7:45pm

Duration: 2hrs 3mins

Attendance: All

Updates: Housing consideration for disciples, Overseer’s relative’s status in prison

Agenda: Council & Weighting the pros and cons of a potential house/property

Discussions: How much to offer for the potential property

Decisions: Proceed with an offer that disciples are comfortable with.

Jul 23

7/22/23

Start and End Times: 5:15pm CT and 7:30pm CT,

Duration: 2hrs and 15mins

Attendance: All

Updates: Builders & Termite Apts, Housing Considerations

Agenda: Prioritization list in light of builders coming this week, House buying counsel

Discussions:

Decisions:

· Work on info to give Builders

· Housing Discussions to be continued in Group Chat

7/1/23

6:11pm-8:30pm (extra discussion: 10:26pm)

All in Attendance

· Vision (for this season): Overseer Presented Initial Draft to Members/Assembly/Church

· Decision: We can continue revising our Vision for this season & we can majorly revise it again next season (esp. if housing &/or financial situations change for members/Church)

· Prioritization: WSJF-Prioritization

· Began assigning values to Prioritization Excel File

· Decision: continue working on the Excel prioritization file and Come back together for review & to finish it

Jun 23

6/25/23

5pm-6pm

Pastor & AL Servents

· Prioritization Strategies -- continued

· Continued individual refinement of the previous discussion

6/24/23

~5:30pm-7pm

All in Attendance

Expenses -- Updates

· Overseer (& others) helped present current, potential, & upcoming expenses & needs

· Decision: We still need to Prioritize

Project Prioritization

· Prioritization presented & discussed by various members, including the prerequisites of…

· (1) Vision

· (2) Priority

· (3) Budget

· (4) Alignment (agreement) for execution

· Decision: Start developing Vision, etc. & work on Prioritization (ideally, if possible)

Apr 23

4/22/23

~5:30pm-6:30pm

All in Attendance

· Fund Raising (Income Ideas) and Proclamation Acceleration, etc.

Mar 23

3/25/23

~5:30pm-6:30pm

All in Attendance

· Today is also Sir's spiritual 26th birthday

· Research Proverbs 6:25 every argument for or against it

· Hitting things at every angle so once done we can all say yes and amen to Sir working on the Bible

· Crimping Ethernet cable (Networking needs)

· Getting another fridge/freezer

· Bank Account -- determining the right/best one for us

· Donations -- setting up the right platform for receiving donations

· Proclamation Acceleration Plan / Project

· With AI it is a nice time to create content without doing everything manually

· Using AI as an advanced thesaurus

Feb 23

2/5/23

~3:30pm-4:30pm

All in Attendance

· Church position on AI (especially in writing)

Jan 23

1/21/23 – Community Health Initiative (cont.)

~5:30pm-6:30pm

All in Attendance

· Blood Glucose (“Sugar”)

· Juice Fasts

· Detox

1/14/23 – Community Health Initiative

~5:30pm-6:30pm

All in Attendance

· Goal: Helping people be healthy

· Dental

· Blood Pressure

· Chiropractic

2022

Summary: December 2022 we met more frequently than usual to discuss budgeting goals and future plans for the next year.

Dec 22

12/20/22-12/30/22 – Special Meetings

All-day events (Assembly decided not to attempt specifying minuts)

All in Attendance (BD was partly in attendance remotely)

· Finances & Budgeting

· Future Goals

· Planning

· Communion Practices

12/25/22

~3:30pm-5:00pm

All in Attendance

· Church Communication Practices -- continued -- …12/23/22-12/25/22

12/18/22

~3:30pm-5:00pm

All in Attendance

· Church Communication Practices -- ~12/14/22-12/18/22

12/17/22 ???

·Stewardship -- 12/11/22; 12/14/22-12/15/22

12/17/22

~5:30pm-6:30pm

All in Attendance

~12/9/22-12/10/22

· Budgeting -- corporate discussion

· Quantifying Strategies

12/11/22

~3:30pm-5:00pm

All in Attendance

· Tithing & Offering -- Questions Answered

· Giving to the Poor (Didache Alms Quote)

12/3/22

~5:30pm-6:30pm

All in Attendance

· Budgeting -- smaller discussion(s)

Older Months for 2022

· Older months minutes are currently archived for 2022, but

· might be available/retrievable upon request (if approved by the Church).

Details

Rules, Definitions, & Procedures

7/6/23

· Dates & Times: Meeting dates, as well as Start and End (“Adjournment”) times are all recorded and typically included in these minutes whenever reasonably possible, unless the Church decides it is not helpful/needed/applicable/appropriate (as in Constitution).

· All in Attendance means that Board Members were present (as well as anyone else necessary and available for the topics discussed, such as experts) unless there were essential (and/or topical) reasons for their absence (such as personally sensitive discussions/topics). (Absences are typically made explicit where necessary and appropriate.).

· Names: Specific names (and shorthand acronyms) are documented in our Trustees List (and other related documentation). (see: More Info below).

· Overseer = Pastor (These two terms are socially synonymous in English, and treated as the same herein.)
Action Items are Typically marked as “Decision(s)” (as in Constitution).

· Motions and votes are handled by the principles of consensus and are included in “Decision(s)” (as in Constitution) and any potential discrepancies and/or pending needs are typically noted (when possible, necessary, and appropriate)

· Agenda Items are typically the bulleted points other than “Decision(s)”.

· Announcements are typically marked as “Updates” and are sometimes included in Agenda Items.

· Constitution: Refers to the fact that a certain practice and/or Decision(s) are being carried out in conformity to the rules set out in our Church’s Constitution and Bylaws. (This constitutional conformity applies to all of these Definitions & Procedures.)

· More Info: All members should already have access to all of the resources and information mentioned herein, but if you need assistance (and if you wish to request more info) contact the pastor/overseer, any of our Trustees, and/or email: BibleBeggars@Gmail.com

A Good Faith Collaborative Effort

A good faith effort has been made by the collaboration of our Church to make these minutes as useful and accurate as reasonably possible. Anyone is welcomed and encouraged to elaborate, and/or clarify the details herein to help improve the effectiveness and accuracy of this documentation as much as possible.

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10/9/22

@team: Church Business Meeting

I would like to “call to order” our Church's Official Business Meeting

(i.e. we’re trying to do a virtual Business Meeting in chat)

(No worries: you can keep simultaneously talking about any other needed things in chat like normal, but I just want to have an opportunity to take some virtual votes, etc., as we decide on Church business before we hopefully get to meet for a more "Bible study" oriented conference today)

In the future hopefully we'll get to do our virtual and in person business meetings more on Fridays and Saturdays.

Al: Combining Resources

12/12/22

AlMon Dec 12 at 2:03am(edited)

This might sound like such an uninformed question, but if Ay's housing situation has become unbearable, and if she has to live in a big city, then it sounds like the best option would be to move in with H somewhere or at least into H's apartment temporarily. This seems like it would combine and decrease expenses.

If she temporarily moved into H's apartment then could she also temporarily rent a small storage unit for her overflow stuff? Is that ok?

Or maybe, is it ok to purchase an economical housing option that can house both of them even if it doesn't have all the ideal specs such as multiple bathrooms, or a setup for visitors, or acreage, etc? Could we just, at least for now, prioritize combining resources, decreases expenses, getting Ay out of an unlivable situation, and making sure H can get to work everyday?

Sorry again if these aren't very good questions.

Overseer Didache Quote

12/11/22

HdSun Dec 11 at 8:37pm

"Let your charitable gift sweat in your hands until you know to whom you are giving it."

Didache 1:6

H Budgeting Comments

12/17/22

haSat Dec 17 at 8:48pm

I just wanted to share a small example of how important quantifying things can be for discussions on what to do first for projects. When we first were looking at housing there were a lot of strong impressions that we could afford to build a house on Sir's parent's property. When I got rough numbers on how much a project like that would cost and you guys got confirmations on the general numbers in the budget I made, we were able to quickly rule that out as an option.

At least to me numbers can help move an abstract idea into something that is more concrete and makes it easier to understand some of the implications of a situation.

haSat Dec 17 at 8:50pm(edited)

Thats a thought I had towards the concept of quantifying paperwork projects that prevent loss vs working on construction projects that prevent loss

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