Campus Friends Meeting
Friday, July 06, 2007
CAMPUS FRIENDS MEETING
June 20, 2007
Monthly Meeting for Business
Ellis Room, Friendly Center
Unapproved Minutes
PRESENT: Ron Rembert, Richard Coleman, Dale Hayes, Canby Jones
CALENDAR OF COMING EVENTS
Sunday, Jun 24
9:15 am Inner Search, Boyd Lobby
10:30 am Meeting for Worship,
Quaker Heritage Center Meetinghouse
Greeter/Breaker: Patricia Thomas
Sunday, Jul 1
9:15 am Fellowship Breadfast
10:30 am Meeting for Worship,
Quaker Heritage Center Meetinghouse
Greeter/Breaker: Richard Coleman
Sunday, Jul 15
9:15 am Inner Search, Boyd Lobby
10:30 am Meeting for Worship,
Quaker Heritage Center Meetinghouse
Greeter/Breaker: Canby Jones
Tuesday, Jul 17
9:30 am Ministry and Counsel
Canby Jones, Apartment 417
Friendly Center
Wednesday, Jul 18
7:00 pm Meeting for Worship with Attention to Business
Ellis Room, Friendly Center
Sunday, Jul 22
9:15 am Inner Search, Boyd Lobby
10:30 am Meeting for Worship,
Quaker Heritage Center Meetinghouse
Greeter/Breaker: Richard Coleman
Sunday, Jul 29
9:15 am Fifth Sunday Program: Ron Rembert and Linda Sears will speak
10:30 am Meeting for Worship,
Quaker Heritage Center Meetinghouse
Greeter/Breaker: Ron Rembert
Friends gathered with a time of centering and a query from WYM Queries.
Minutes of the May meeting
were approved.
Treasurer’s Report – Dale Hayes – attached to these minutes
The amount of contributions last month was small. Although all obligations and assessments have been paid, we are facing a significant shortfall (about $3000) that foreshadows an inability to make all of our discretionary giving payments as budgeted ($1500). Our current checking balance is only about $700.
The report was approved. The meeting decided to send out a letter of appeal to all members. The letter is attached to these minutes.
Ministry & Counsel – Dale Hayes and Canby Jones reporting
Roger Schroeder requested temporary relief from his duties as clerk of Ministry and Counsel, which was granted effective immediately. Patricia Thomas will clerk until further notice. Roger has requested a circle of care and will submit a list of names he would like to see serve on it.
Distant Friends Canby Jones contacted Kirk Halliday, who wishes to retain membership. Ruth Stuckey contacted Wes Stratton who also wants to remain a member. We still have not been able to contact Kelly Snyder. Patricia will continue her efforts.
Fifth Sunday Program Ron Rembert and Linda Sears have agreed to speak on Jul 29.
Draft Faith and Discipline Inputs from the two breakfast sessions were reviewed . These sessions indicated that the meeting should respond with Option B, approval with specified changes. Bob Powell was tasked to make the response on behalf of the meeting. That response is attached to these minutes.
Health of Members was reviewed.
The next meeting of Ministry and Counsel will take place on Jul 17 at 9:30 am in Canby Jones’s apartment.
The report was approved.
Old Business
FUM DVD on Kenya Meeting Richard Coleman has, as requested, reviewed this DVD. He reports that the DVD makes a strong, emotional appeal for funds, but lacks any detail on budget issues, expenses, etc.
New Business
OVYM Executive Committee Report- Dale Hayes. The committee met in Indianapolis on Jun 2 to prepare for the yearly meeting. Other business included the following
• It was announced that Deborah Jordan is the new OVYM staff person.
• The archiving of minutes in cooperation with Wilmington College Special Collections will continue.
• The Peace and Social Concerns Committee is working on the issue of corporal punishment in public schools.
Hymn Singing The meeting decided to lay down hymn singing on the third Sunday for the months of July and August
The meeting expressed its appreciation for Richard Coleman’s support of Chris Swisshelm and Vicky Powers and their children as Chris’s life came to a peaceful end.
The meeting concluded with a period of silent worship.
NEXT MEETING FOR BUSINESS – July 18, 2007 -7:00PM - ELLIS ROOM
Patricia Thomas, Presiding Clerk Bob Powell, Recording Clerk
pcthomas42@earthlink.net rdp1710@gmail.com
CAMPUS FRIENDS MEETING
Wilmington College
Box 651
Wilmington, Ohio 45177
Dear Friends:
We write to inform you of a shortfall in Campus Friends budget as we approach the July 31 end of our fiscal year. According to the treasurer’s report at our June meeting for business, we do not have sufficient funds in our account to cover the amount budgeted for our yearly discretionary contributions. With less than one month remaining in the fiscal year, we have spent approximately $1400 more than we have received in contributions. Our checking account currently holds just under $700 and we need $1543 just to make all the end-of-year expenditures that we have budgeted to support the various Quaker organizations to which we ordinarily contribute.
Our hope is to end the year in the same good financial shape we began. We do not require people to tithe, pledge, or commit themselves to giving to the Meeting. We trust, however, that each of you values the good work the Meeting and the organizations which it supports do among its members, the Religious Society of Friends, and the world at large. We therefore humbly request that you at this time look into your hearts and contribute to Campus Friends as you are able.
Yours in the Light,
Patricia Thomas
Clerk
Campus Friends Meeting
Comments on Draft Faith and Practice
July 1, 2007
After careful consideration, The Campus Friends Meeting opts for Response B: we approve the draft with minor changes as noted below.
Referring to p. 29, lines 229-232, the sense of our meeting is that this section too narrowly restricts the context of worship to a father-child relationship. We suggest replacing this material with a simple statement to the effect that “The concern is to broaden the condition of worship to include an open invitation to a relationship with the divine.”
The quotation of the entire fourth chapter of Ephesians as an introduction to the spiritual community (p. 25) is apposite, but it needs an introduction. We suggest: “The following quotation gives a wonderful summary of how the spiritual community lives, is inspired, and loves.”
We suggest changing the discussion in Chapter 5, p. 37, line 138 to “Disownment.”
Campus Friends Meeting thanks the committee for the painstaking care it has exercised in bringing forth this draft.
Bob Powell,
Recording Clerk
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June 20, 2007
Monthly Meeting for Business
Ellis Room, Friendly Center
Unapproved Minutes
PRESENT: Ron Rembert, Richard Coleman, Dale Hayes, Canby Jones
CALENDAR OF COMING EVENTS
Sunday, Jun 24
9:15 am Inner Search, Boyd Lobby
10:30 am Meeting for Worship,
Quaker Heritage Center Meetinghouse
Greeter/Breaker: Patricia Thomas
Sunday, Jul 1
9:15 am Fellowship Breadfast
10:30 am Meeting for Worship,
Quaker Heritage Center Meetinghouse
Greeter/Breaker: Richard Coleman
Sunday, Jul 15
9:15 am Inner Search, Boyd Lobby
10:30 am Meeting for Worship,
Quaker Heritage Center Meetinghouse
Greeter/Breaker: Canby Jones
Tuesday, Jul 17
9:30 am Ministry and Counsel
Canby Jones, Apartment 417
Friendly Center
Wednesday, Jul 18
7:00 pm Meeting for Worship with Attention to Business
Ellis Room, Friendly Center
Sunday, Jul 22
9:15 am Inner Search, Boyd Lobby
10:30 am Meeting for Worship,
Quaker Heritage Center Meetinghouse
Greeter/Breaker: Richard Coleman
Sunday, Jul 29
9:15 am Fifth Sunday Program: Ron Rembert and Linda Sears will speak
10:30 am Meeting for Worship,
Quaker Heritage Center Meetinghouse
Greeter/Breaker: Ron Rembert
Friends gathered with a time of centering and a query from WYM Queries.
Minutes of the May meeting
were approved.
Treasurer’s Report – Dale Hayes – attached to these minutes
The amount of contributions last month was small. Although all obligations and assessments have been paid, we are facing a significant shortfall (about $3000) that foreshadows an inability to make all of our discretionary giving payments as budgeted ($1500). Our current checking balance is only about $700.
The report was approved. The meeting decided to send out a letter of appeal to all members. The letter is attached to these minutes.
Ministry & Counsel – Dale Hayes and Canby Jones reporting
Roger Schroeder requested temporary relief from his duties as clerk of Ministry and Counsel, which was granted effective immediately. Patricia Thomas will clerk until further notice. Roger has requested a circle of care and will submit a list of names he would like to see serve on it.
Distant Friends Canby Jones contacted Kirk Halliday, who wishes to retain membership. Ruth Stuckey contacted Wes Stratton who also wants to remain a member. We still have not been able to contact Kelly Snyder. Patricia will continue her efforts.
Fifth Sunday Program Ron Rembert and Linda Sears have agreed to speak on Jul 29.
Draft Faith and Discipline Inputs from the two breakfast sessions were reviewed . These sessions indicated that the meeting should respond with Option B, approval with specified changes. Bob Powell was tasked to make the response on behalf of the meeting. That response is attached to these minutes.
Health of Members was reviewed.
The next meeting of Ministry and Counsel will take place on Jul 17 at 9:30 am in Canby Jones’s apartment.
The report was approved.
Old Business
FUM DVD on Kenya Meeting Richard Coleman has, as requested, reviewed this DVD. He reports that the DVD makes a strong, emotional appeal for funds, but lacks any detail on budget issues, expenses, etc.
New Business
OVYM Executive Committee Report- Dale Hayes. The committee met in Indianapolis on Jun 2 to prepare for the yearly meeting. Other business included the following
• It was announced that Deborah Jordan is the new OVYM staff person.
• The archiving of minutes in cooperation with Wilmington College Special Collections will continue.
• The Peace and Social Concerns Committee is working on the issue of corporal punishment in public schools.
Hymn Singing The meeting decided to lay down hymn singing on the third Sunday for the months of July and August
The meeting expressed its appreciation for Richard Coleman’s support of Chris Swisshelm and Vicky Powers and their children as Chris’s life came to a peaceful end.
The meeting concluded with a period of silent worship.
NEXT MEETING FOR BUSINESS – July 18, 2007 -7:00PM - ELLIS ROOM
Patricia Thomas, Presiding Clerk Bob Powell, Recording Clerk
pcthomas42@earthlink.net rdp1710@gmail.com
CAMPUS FRIENDS MEETING
Wilmington College
Box 651
Wilmington, Ohio 45177
Dear Friends:
We write to inform you of a shortfall in Campus Friends budget as we approach the July 31 end of our fiscal year. According to the treasurer’s report at our June meeting for business, we do not have sufficient funds in our account to cover the amount budgeted for our yearly discretionary contributions. With less than one month remaining in the fiscal year, we have spent approximately $1400 more than we have received in contributions. Our checking account currently holds just under $700 and we need $1543 just to make all the end-of-year expenditures that we have budgeted to support the various Quaker organizations to which we ordinarily contribute.
Our hope is to end the year in the same good financial shape we began. We do not require people to tithe, pledge, or commit themselves to giving to the Meeting. We trust, however, that each of you values the good work the Meeting and the organizations which it supports do among its members, the Religious Society of Friends, and the world at large. We therefore humbly request that you at this time look into your hearts and contribute to Campus Friends as you are able.
Yours in the Light,
Patricia Thomas
Clerk
Campus Friends Meeting
Comments on Draft Faith and Practice
July 1, 2007
After careful consideration, The Campus Friends Meeting opts for Response B: we approve the draft with minor changes as noted below.
Referring to p. 29, lines 229-232, the sense of our meeting is that this section too narrowly restricts the context of worship to a father-child relationship. We suggest replacing this material with a simple statement to the effect that “The concern is to broaden the condition of worship to include an open invitation to a relationship with the divine.”
The quotation of the entire fourth chapter of Ephesians as an introduction to the spiritual community (p. 25) is apposite, but it needs an introduction. We suggest: “The following quotation gives a wonderful summary of how the spiritual community lives, is inspired, and loves.”
We suggest changing the discussion in Chapter 5, p. 37, line 138 to “Disownment.”
Campus Friends Meeting thanks the committee for the painstaking care it has exercised in bringing forth this draft.
Bob Powell,
Recording Clerk
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