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March 5, 2011

Inside the Courier : 

•  A Look at the BriteSide, page 2

• Board Notes, page 3

• Vandal(s) strike(s)

again, page 3

On the Web: 

FCC’s website 

Christian Church(Disciples of Christ) national organization

2011 Hunger FactSheet 

“To Catch a Thief,

Love a Thief” 

Give Generously 

March is Minnesota FoodShare Month

During the month of March, our congregation is joining people of good will fromacross the state to help alleviate hunger. Minnesota FoodShare‘s March Campaign i

the largest food drive in the state, and congregations like ours are the heart of thecampaign.

Our local Emergency Food Shelf, located in the basement of Plymouth Congrega-tional Church at Groveland & Nicollet, was able to respond to the 21,200 requests

for food in 2010. This was 5000 more visits than in 2009.

This year our congregation will be collecting both food and cash contributionsthroughout the month of March for Groveland Food Shelf. Since our local churcheare facing the financial pinch again this year we don't know if they will be able tosupport us at the same level for another year. All we can do is to ask everyone to beas generous as they can.

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Approximately nine board members and three staff members at-tended the Feb. 15 meeting of the FCC General Board. The majoritems addressed at the meeting were the following:

  Transition Team has completed its task of helping the congre-gation decide about future location. It will be ―in hiatus‖ until

needs arise.

  Board voted to accept appointments to committees overseeingPartnership planning: Design Team – Skip Wolverton, EarlDunham, Max Hurlocker; Interim Ministry Council Tom Cur-ry, Martha Harris, Bobbi Hall, Val Dunham; Covenant Revi-sion – Pat Dunlop, Skip Wolverton; Kitchen Subcommittee –  Sandy Morgan, Mike Hesano, Lu Griffin; Signage – DennisSanders.

  Deb Murphy will chair a committee on revision of FCC‘s Con-stitution and Bylaws.

  The Board approved a motion from the Trustees to add FCC tothe legal title for the Ministry Center; to make a payment of $370,000 to equalize payments previously made by Salem andLyndale; to authorize future payments to Ministry Center as re-

quired, not to exceed $1,200,000; and to seek funds for saidpayment either by borrowing or prepayment of the note owed toFCC by Minneapolis Institute of Arts.

  Tom Curry announced that forming a Call Committee will bediscussed at the March Board meeting

  Discussion of ways to disburse some of the Billman educationfunds

  Finance Committee approved purchase of a new computer forthe teller‘s room 

Board Notes 

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Two opportunities to stay up to date on FCC’s future plans 

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Board Chair Tom Curry has an-nounced two upcoming meetingsfor the congregation to stay in-

formed about current plans tojoin the Ministry Center Partner-ship along with Lyndale UCCand Salem Lutheran.

An informational meeting for thecongregation will be held afterworship on Sunday, March 6.

Congregation members can ask questions and hear from variouscommittee members about the

current plans and progress for theMinistry Center, which is cur-rently under construction.

Also, the General Board of FCCwill hold its April meeting onSunday, April 17 following wor-ship.

Tom is planning to have SundayBoard meetings once a quarter toaccommodate board members

who have a difficult time makingnight time meetings. All congre-gation members are welcome toattend any Board meeting.

Vandal(s) strike(s) for 5thtime

Our FCC building was hit withvandalism last week for the 4thtime since the New Year; our 1

st 

Avenue sign was also vandalizedshortly after the first of the year.We do not know if it is one ormore persons. In response, weengaged the services of Mill CitySecurity Services as of Feb. 23rd,which is patrolling the churchproperty and keeping a close eyeon the Fellowship Hall area inthe overnight hours.

The Minneapolis Police De-

partment and MIA security areadditionally on high alert. Giventhe increase in occurrence of these incidences of vandalism,the entire 5th precinct of theMPD has been made aware of what is going on. Between thesecurity service, the police, andMIA security, we are workingintensely to apprehend the indi-vidual who is responsible for

these attacks.

Rev. Dennis Sanders held aworship service in the FellowshipHall on Feb. 23 to reflect andpray about these attacks. He alsowrote reflection called ―To Catch

a Thief, Love a Thief‖ on the

blog section of FCC‘s website.

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