CMM 2019-06-09

Minutes of Meeting for Worship for Conduct of Business

Concord (NH) Monthly Meeting of

the Religious Society of Friends

Sixth Month 9, 2019

Eleven Friends gathered and entered into a brief moment of quiet worship and then accepted the minutes of Fifth month as posted on the website.

06.1  Budget Report:  Budget committee presented a Finance report, noting that Meeting members have responded well to the request last month for additional donations to meet our projected income for the fiscal year that has just ended.  There was some ambiguity about how much of the recent donations were for this coming year rather than the year just past.  This will be sorted out and presented again next month.  Committee notes and the report are appended to these minutes.

06.2  Nominating Committee:  Nominating committee reported that the presiding clerk of the Meeting has stepped off of the four member committee.  They are now looking to add another member to the committee.  They are currently planning to ask someone who has served in the recent past to rejoin the committee for just one year.  It was suggested that Nominating committee revisit having a description and procedures for the committee since we did not have definite recall that Meeting has one of its own.  The description of NEYM’s Faith and Practice for MM Nominating committee was read. In the interim.  Friends were comfortable proceeding as the committee has suggested.

06.3  Ministry and Counsel report was read by the committee clerk.  It is appended to these Minutes.  Of note, there is a correction to previous announcements that we would not have a Fourth Sunday program in June.  We will be having a session focused on the NEYM relationship with Friends United Meeting that will be a topic of consideration at NEYM sessions this summer.

06.4  ‘Hostile Visitors’:  The clerk brought a concern that we might want to have a policy on how the Meeting would handle a hostile visitor.  Friends agreed to ask Ministry and Counsel to begin the consideration of this topic.

Meeting closed with brief worship purposing to meet again on the second Sunday of July.

NB. The Income & Expenses Sheet was created with two decimal points, which were removed for readability, the cents being unimportant to the overall understanding.  This can have the effect of throwing off any given sum by a dollar due to compounded rounding.  —  Prepared by Greg Heath and Chris Haigh.

* These figures were carried forward from the previous month and are uncertain.

Ministry and Counsel Committee Report, June 9^th, 2019

Ministry and Counsel

Report to Meeting for Business

June 9, 2019

There will be a Fourth Sunday program on June 23, 2019.  Jennifer Smith will lead us in learning about the history of New England Yearly Meeting’s relationship with Friends United Meeting (FUM).  Betsy Meyers will provide a short history of Baltimore Yearly Meeting’s relationship with FUM.  This will be a time to understand our history which will inform discussions in the future.

Please feel free to bring any concern you might have for the life of the meeting or relationships within the meeting to a member of Ministry and Counsel.

Announcements for email distribution:

1. Greeters
   
   1. 1^st Sunday – Mark
   2. 2^nd Sunday – Kathy M
   3. 3^rd Sunday – JJ
   4. 4^th Sunday – Kathy U
   5. 5^th Sunday – Ruth
2. Midweek worship – 2^nd and 4^th Wednesdays at 7:00 p.m. at Meetinghouse
3. Adult Meetings for Learning
   
   1. 1^st Sundays after fellowship at the Meetinghouse
   2. 1^st and 3^rd Thursdays at 6:30 p.m. at the Meetinghouse