Trinity Lutheran Church

Annual Meeting Report for 2020

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Agenda

1. Call to order
2. Minutes of 2019 meeting
3. Review of 2020
1. Pastor’s Report (Written Report is online)
4. Financial Report 2020
5. Discussion and vote for budget
6. Contract with Alaska Synod
7. Other discussion . . .

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COVID-19 Pandemic

Services started by Zoom on March 29, 2021

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Alaska Synod Assembly

• Cancelled in 2020
• Online via Zoom in 2021
• April 23-25, 2021
• $50/voting member attending
• Sessions will be 60-90 minutes long
• Inviting 2 Representatives from our church
• Let Luisa konw if you would like to “attend”

• Alaska is one of 65 synods of the �ELCA
• Supports congregational mission throughout Alaska
• Headed by Bishop Shelley Wickstrom
• Dillingham is 1 of 30 ELCA churches in Alaska

Easier to have the Living Lutheran Magazine just be an Educational Supplies expense. You will no longer be asked to contribute $9 for a subscription.�Let Luisa know if you would like to receive the Living Lutheran Magazine.

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FYI�$67. 00 Received for subscriptions�$89.50 Paid for subscriptions

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Church Event & Activities

• Pre-School Play time once a week with Melissa Dunham and Kyrstin Arellano until March when we stopped having people gather at church.
• Holiday/Special Services
• Ash Wednesday
• Christmas Eve
• Blessing of the Animals
• Jan & Feb - Chime practice, meditation time
• Sunday Service Guest Speakers
• Alaska Bishop Shelley Wickstrom
• ELCA Bishop Elizabeth Eaton
• Pastor Lisa Smith Fiegel
• Poetry Gathering led by Warren Bradbury

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Member Contributions

• Road clean up (a mile along the road on either side of the church)
• Roof Snow removal - Hugh & Mark Reynolds. Wanda.
• Washing Machine repairs - Mark Reynolds
• Cemetery: Weeding & Clearing Snow - Debi & Russell Nelson
• Counting offering & bookkeeping: Ted Kreig, Debi McLean, and Wanda Wahl.
• Planting flowers - Page & Owen O’Connell. Sarah & Alex Andrew, and Jamal. Debi McLean.

Page sent Valentine boxes to elders that had to leave Dillingham

Pastor Activities

• Advisory Committee for Behavioral Health member, BBAHC
• Alaska Synod Meetings with fellow Alaska pastors and Bishop Wickstrom
• “Gospel of Thomas” study group
• Four-day Online retreat

Picture from “Black Lives Matter” March

GRANTS

Debi McLean wrote two grant applications�One grant was successful: $1,200 for COVID-related expenses

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Picture from Blessing of the Fleet

Noisy Offering

$819.82

Made contributions:

1. Locally
1. School supplies for children in SAFE
2. BBNA Food Bank
2. Lutheran Disaster Response
• Hurricane relief
• COVID-19 support
• Food/Shelter for Refugees
• Wildfire Survivors in western states
3. ELCA Gift Center
• Support water well
• Honeybees, chicks, or goats
• Stock a health clinic for one week
• Send a woman to Farmer’s School
• Community vegetable gardens

ELCA World Hunger to:

$240

Parsonage

• New Furnace
• Mark Herrmann contractor
• Furnace on order
• Summer 2021 remove chimney
• Central Lutheran Contributed $2,072.16
• $1,829.87 for FY2020
• $242.29 from lost checks on FY2019

$1,996.55 spent on Maintenance, Repairs, Remodel from Funds that were Dedicated only for that purpose

Parsonage

Possible Ideas for Discussion from 2019

• Develop possibilities to minister to families in times of death and grief�
• Discussion of ‘white privilege’
• Where do we see this in our lives?
• What might we do to eliminate it in our community?

Discussion Group

For discussion in a few weeks:

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