Grand Rapids Friends Meeting
Agenda: January 2014 Meeting for Worship with Attention to
Business
· Query
· Approve minutes from November 2013 Business Meeting
· Treasurer’s Report (Kim Ranger)
· Ministry & Nurture / Advancement
· Old business
o
Others interested in Clerking?
o
Clerking
workshop, Pendle Hill, February 7–9
§ http://www.pendlehill.org/workshops/winter-2014/931-clerking
o
Development of
electronic directory
o
Revised Meeting
handbook
o
Budget &
finance [committee] issues unresolved
§ This is dependent upon the Meeting’s sense of purpose
o
Email options
§ Mail Chimp [http://mailchimp.com/features/] Pricing:
free. “As long as you've got fewer than 2,000 subscribers across all lists in
your account, you can send up to 12,000 emails per month without paying us a
dime.”
o
Merry Stanford
spiritual language workshop
· New business
o
Aquinas College
requests an increase in rent
§ Options? (We could change Meeting time/location,
negotiate for more time)
· Holland Friends meet at Western Theological Seminary
2–3 times each month, in classrooms, at no charge
