Moderator Report
October 2025
Seek Justice. Love
Mercy. Walk Humbly with your God. Micah 6:8
Missions. I think the coat drive may be OBE, but it
is listed under Old Business as an agenda item.
Worship. Now is the time for people to offer a
Thanksgiving or Christmas special music.
Education. Rodney is working on cancelling the
curriculum for Chrissy’s class. No other changes were noted.
Building and Grounds. Hosting the Presbytery helped
shrink the “to-do” list.
Fellowship. We will have two fellowship gatherings
with food before the end of the year. The Thanksgiving gathering will be a full
meal, and the Christmas gathering will be finger food. Both will follow a short
worship service. I put fellowship meals on the Dates for Planning Purposes list
for the first two 5th Sundays in 2026.
Financial. Windstream botched our current bill. How
do we want to proceed? This is an agenda item. We may want to consider putting everything
in savings except $10,000 into a 6-month CD before the rates go down.
Other
Red River Presbytery was surely a “Well Done!” across
the board. Not to get bruised by patting
ourselves on the back, but this event mobilized many within our congregation.
That’s some God’s love in action.
Elder Nominations. Both Ethan and Kathy said yes
to their nomination. The congregational meeting to elect is scheduled for 14
December 25.
Pastor Turnover. Kathy has taken over the janitorial
contract management. If you have not already selected one, an elder on next
year’s session should be assigned as a representative to the ministerial
alliance. The first meeting of the new year is tentatively scheduled for 6
February. I recommend that you have a confirmation meeting on 28 December 2025
to include the elders joining the session as well as those rotating off. You
will need to elect a moderator pro tempore before or at that meeting from the five
who will be serving in 2026.
The Search Committee is formed. They were blessed on
5 October during the 11 am service. The session needs to decide whether to meet
with them or leave the direction to the session members serving on the
committee. I suggest the full session meet with the search committee so
discussions are not stove-piped and the committee and the session have a
meeting of the minds. A handout of what the session captured in its discussions
over the past several months, presented as guidance to the committee, would be
a helpful reference.
Building Access. Dwight Shephard once again has a key
to our building. Living Waters has stopped maintaining much food on hand at
their location and comes here. I gave Heather’s key to Dwight. He had one
before, but he has not had one since we changed doors. We had fewer keys for
these doors, and I waited until I could recover one. Gayla Hite has one as
well. I have asked for it a couple of times, but didn’t want to be pushy over a
key that likely poses no risk to our security.
Tom Personal. In October/November, I will put some of
my books out in front of my office for people to take if they want them. I may
have to adjust the location depending on how long we keep up the Fall Photo
area.
Links to information not included in the report.
Projects
in Search of a Champion.
Red
River Presbytery Facebook page
