Trinity Fellowship Board Meeting
January 15, 2001

Present

Don Williams, Ken & Cindy Morefield, Todd & Sherry Truffin

Todd brought the meeting to order with prayer.

New Business

State of the Church

• Do we agree that the current state of the church, for whatever reason, is not working? YES
• Under what circumstances should/could we continue?
1. Our structure should reflect how we're actually functioning and the gifts we have instead of what we were or wish/think we should be;
2. In order to make disciples, which we agree is the church’s primary objective, we must first be disciples.  How can we become better disciples?  What intentional steps can we take?  Can we make accountability relationships a condition of leadership and/or membership?  Truffins and Morefields shared their positive experience with just such a structure provided by the Renovaré Spiritual Formation Group.  Don suggested that this format could be introduced on Sunday evenings.  We agree that a concrete move toward more intentional discipleship training is something that is worth doing, regardless of whether others join us in that pursuit.
3. We need to seriously consider the viability of staying in our current building.  We agreed that becoming a house church might be a viable alternative, but one that has difficulties of its own.
4. If we are not currently operating under our constitution and by-laws, do we need to rewrite them?  Don suggested that we are still operating within the spirit, if not the letter, of our constitution.  If the by-laws need to be amended, that is something we can certainly consider, but it is not a pressing concern.
• Considering the above, are we truly interested in continuing?
  There was agreement that focusing on what we have, instead of what we don’t have, and pursuing intentional discipleship training formed the core of a positive direction that we felt capable of pursuing.

Questions that must be answered before Annual Meeting:

• Are we going to have officers?
  Yes.  We can’t really have a board per se, but rather a Steering Committee. We’ll bring the following slate to the congregation at the annual meeting:  Ken will continue as treasurer, but will not meet with the steering committee.  The steering committee will consist of Don (who doesn’t need to be elected), Todd, and Cindy.  Todd will continue as chairperson, as this position (and that of treasurer) is required by our denomination.
• How do we present options to the congregation?
  Present spiritual formation outline at the meeting; go through SFG introductory materials on Sunday nights for whomever is interested.

Building

Discuss at annual meeting.

Next Meeting

Annual Congregational Meeting scheduled for Sunday, January 21, 6pm at the Truffins.

Respectfully submitted,
Cynthia L. Morefield, Secretary