Highlands United Church 2016 Annual Report
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Highlands United Church 2016 Annual Report Presented at Highlands United Church Annual General Meeting March 19, 2017 Page 2 2016 Annual Report Table of Contents • Living the Questions Page 35 • Music United Page 36 Minister’s Welcome Page 3 • Asking the Big Questions Page 35 Staff and Lay Leaders Page 4 • Yoga Chapel Page 36 Agenda Page 5-6 • Walk ’n Talk page 36 Minutes Page 7-13 Social Action and Community Administration & Leadership • Climate & Environment Action Page 37 • Minister’s Report Page 14-15 • Local Connections Page 37-38 • Leadership Board Page 15-16 • Global Connections Page 38 • Ministry & Personnel Page 17-18 • Highlands Quilters Page 39 • Property Committee Page 19-20 • Shelter to Home Page 40-41 • Board of Trustees Page 20 • Saturday Lunch Page 42 • Building Committee Page 21-22 • Refugee Committee Page 43 • Van-Burrard Presbytery Page 23 • Edgemont Village Christmas Dinner Page 43 • Membership Statistics Page 24 • Flea Market Page 44 • Memorials, Weddings, • English Language Learning Page 45 and Baptisms Page 25 • Scouts Page 46 Worship and Music Caring & Seniors Ministry • Worship Committee Page 26-27 • Seniors Connection Page 47 • IGNITE Worship Page 27 • Hospital, Hospice Visits Page 48 • Music Page 28 • Caring Ministry Packages Page 48 • Welcoming Ministry Page 29 • Visiting Ministry Page 48 • Healing Hands Ministry Page 49 Ministry Development • Prayer Shawl Ministry Page 49 • Ministry Development Report Page 30 • Social & Multi Media Page 30 Congregational Life • Birthday Celebrations Page 50 Children, Youth and Young Adults • Meals Page 50 • Sunday morning Programming • for Children and Youth Page 31 Nativity Exhibit Page 51 • • Scottish Dance Fundraiser Page 51 Youth Groups & Senior Youth Page 32 • Young Adults Page 33 • Other Children, Financials Youth and Family Events Page 33 • Finance Committee Report Page 52 • Summer Programs Page 34 • Receipts and Disbursements Page 53-54 • Segregated Funds Page 55-57 Adult Education and Faith Formation • HUC Heritage Fund Page 58 • Book Circle Page 35 • Continuing Capital Campaign Page 58 • Library Page 35 • Stewardship Page 59-60 • 2017 Budget Page 61-63 Highlands United Church, 3255 Edgemont Blvd., North Vancouver, BC V7R 2P1 Ph: 604-980-6071 [email protected] www.highlandsunited.org 2016 Annual Report Page 3 Welcome to Highlands United Church 2016 Annual Report In his wonderful book “The Heart placid and peaceful and other times it will be of Christianity”, the late biblical passionate and even conflicted. scholar Marcus Borg tells an I am also aware that this conversation has been anecdote about a mythical going on since long before I entered the room and conversation that takes place in will be going on long after I leave. It is also good to the parlour of a church back in remember that the Highlands conversation is but the days when churches had one part of a much larger conversation of which parlours. You enter the parlour Northwood, the United Church of Canada and full of people and a conversation is going on. If you communities of faith all over the world are all a are wise, you stand on the edge of the conversation part. with others, observers to the conversation that has been going on long before you ever entered. You Some would say that this is a conversation about notice key people in the room speaking Christianity. Some would say it is a church passionately. Others sit back thoughtfully. The conversation. Others would say it is a religious conversation ebbs and flows: at times hot and conversation. I am one who believes that all of conflicted, at other times placid and peaceful. those topics are good and valuable but too small a Different people take the floor and make significant frame for the conversation I think we are in. I points. Others are satisfied to murmur around the believe we are in a conversation about making the edges. love of God visible, about healing the world, about the creation of peace. To me, this is an important, Over time, you notice that some people leave the sacred conversation. conversation altogether, while others come along and join in. You decide to weigh in, becoming quite In your hands is a record of a year in the life of the involved, making your own points and sharing your unending conversation. I am grateful for people like own convictions. Someone agrees with you, but Don Robertson, Deborah Laing, Rob Pollock, others think differently. Someone questions your Cheryl Black and so many others who have dared position. You do your best to say it as you see it. to offer their two bits in the time that they were part of the conversation here. I can hear their voices However, the discussion is interminable. The hour echoing still, and likely you can see their faint grows late. It is time for you to leave. And as you fingerprints on the reports of the life of the church leave, you look back and see the conversation still here even still. I am grateful for the mountain of vigorously in progress. commitment that is represented in these reports, The Christian faith has been likened to an unending hours of staff and volunteer time given to God in conversation. In 2016, I left Northwood United this place. I am grateful for the skill and grace with Church after 7.5 years in that conversation, and I which so many people offer their gifts to make the joined in the conversation already in progress here conversation so rich and engaging. at Highlands United Church. As you can likely easily So read through the chronicle of a year in the life of imagine, it was a sad and poignant thing to leave Highlands, and as you do, perhaps consider ways Northwood and an exciting thing to enter the in which your voice, your time, your gifts, your conversation at Highlands. And as I step into this questions might enliven the conversation in the conversation, I am delighted at the new relationships coming year. I’ll be listening. I have, the new passions and convictions that I hear. Submitted by Rev. Will Sparks, Lead Minister I am aware that sometimes the conversation will be Highlands United Church, 3255 Edgemont Blvd., North Vancouver, BC V7R 2P1 Ph: 604-980-6071 [email protected] www.highlandsunited.org Page 4 2016 Annual Report Highlands United Church—Staff and Lay Leaders Staff Lead Minister Rev. Will Sparks Ministry Development Sandi Parker Minister Seniors and Hospitality Colleen Blair Children, Youth and Young Adult Coordinators Andria Irwin and Allie Keir Administrator Carol Smith Administrative Assistant Tatina Lee Lay Worship Leader Ken Irwin Minister Emeritus Rev. Bob Shank Music Ministry Music Coordinator Geordie Roberts Choir Directors Gillian Irwin, Spirit Singers Geordie Roberts, Genesis II Jeannie Denault, God’s Free Spirits Roz Hollett, Hand Bell Choir Accompanists Geordie Roberts, Jeannie Denault, Demi Chao Custodial Amir Faritous, Iranca Care Ltd. Board of Trustees Bill Denault, Chair Judy Anderson, John Haley, Joan Kosick, Peter Ackhurst and Al Lill Leadership Board Janet Warren and Susan Hogman, Co-Chairs Cullene Bryant, David Keir, Craig Madill, Wendy McNaughton, Stephen Molnar, Ardis Nelson, Marie Rice, Michael Soderling, Tanis van Drimmelen, Will Sparks/Sandi Parker ex-officio Standing Committees: Finance David Boal, Chair Doug Margerm, Treasurer Cameron Forde, Scott Hughes, Laverne G’froerer, Janet Warren, Sandi Parker/Will Sparks ex-officio Ministry and Personnel Ardis Nelson, Chair Diana Bomford, Betty Chapin, Craig Madill, Kathleen Whyte, Sandi Parker/Will Sparks ex-officio Worship Tanis van Drimmelen, Chair Colleen Blair, Cullene Bryant, Joy Dancey, Gill Irwin Andria Irwin, Ken Irwin, Allie Keir, Geordie Roberts, Sandi Parker, Will Sparks ex-officio Presbytery Representatives Simone Carrodus, Ardis Nelson and Hugh Creighton Highlands United Church, 3255 Edgemont Blvd., North Vancouver, BC V7R 2P1 Ph: 604-980-6071 [email protected] www.highlandsunited.org 2016 Annual Report Page 5 Highlands United Church 68th Annual Meeting March 19, 2017 Agenda 1. Opening – Call to Order Opening Prayer: As we begin our Annual Meeting, we pray that our work today will be an opportunity for us to serve God and one another. We pray for the courage to be open to each other and to embrace new and different ideas. We are thankful for those who have gone before, the founders and builders of Highlands, who were prepared to take risks for the sake of the Ministry of this Congregation. We give thanks for the current leaders, in all generations, who share their vision, resources and energy today. We hope that, with your guidance, we will be a transforming agent for love in your world. Amen. 2. We Remember / Memorials 3. We Welcome / Baptisms, Weddings and New Members 4. Procedural Motions Approval of Agenda Motion: That the Agenda for the Highlands 68th Annual Meeting be approved. Voting by Adherents Motion: That all persons present at this meeting be given the right to vote on all matters arising at this meeting. Approval of the Minutes of the 67th AGM, April 23, 2016 Motion: That the Minutes for Highlands 67th Annual General Meeting be approved. Approval of Minutes from the Congregational Meetings of April 17 and May 29, 2016. Motion: That the Minutes for the Congregational Meetings of April 17, and May 29, 2016 be approved. 5. Annual Reports 2016 Ministry and Committee Reports (excluding Financial) 2016 Financial Report (David Boal, Chair, Finance Committee) Approval of Annual Report Motion: That the 2016 Annual Report, including the Highlands Financial Statements as at December 31, 2016 be approved. 6. Staffing Report (Ardis Nelson, Chair, Ministry and Personnel Committee) a. Renewal of Appointment b. Sabbatical Highlands United Church, 3255 Edgemont Blvd., North Vancouver, BC V7R 2P1 Ph: 604-980-6071 [email protected] www.highlandsunited.org Page 6 2016 Annual Report 7.