Memorials and Gifts, as a subgroup of Stewardship team, keeps good records of individual receipts and disbursements, communicates with donor families, reviews the congregation’s needs, and recommends memorial expenditures to the Congregation Council. This subgroup does not handle money and has no direct authority over expenditures. Disbursements are handled by the church treasurer with the approval of council. Examples of this subgroup’s duties include:
- Recording gifts purchased with memorial funds in the Memorials Book
- Maintaining and communicating clear policies for their receipt and expenditure
- Assisting Communications Team with its church inventory responsibilities
Memorials and Gifts
2025 Team Leaders: Beth Cleland and Pastor Joanna Gragg
Recording Secretary: Ruth Nicholson
Members: Gary Black, Kay Black, Sylvia Ford, Elizabeth Shealy, Doris Wessinger, Frank Yonce
2024 Report
This team oversees the process by which gifts to the church are accepted. Particular attention is given to proposed gifts of tangible items, either outright gifts or those to be purchased with monetary contributions made to the church in memory or in honor of someone. The committee endeavors to identify items that would benefit the congregation as well as to note which earlier gifts are no longer in use. This team works with the pastor and congregational council to see that agreed-upon guidelines governing memorials and gifts and their dedication and presentation are followed.
ln 2024, the following items were acquired with the help of designated or undesignated portions of the Memorial and Gift Fund: nine white vertical Levolor blinds for the Sunday School rooms and one mini horizontal white blind for the kitchen.
The team also continues to apply a categorical approach to identify unused and for obsolete items in the church to donate, discard or sell. This ongoing project will continue with the guidance of the Memorials and Gifts Team.
Submitted by Beth Cleland, 2024 Team Leader
Recording Secretary: Ruth Nicholson
Members: Gary Black, Kay Black, Sylvia Ford, Pastor Christine Parham, Elizabeth Shealy, Doris Wessinger, Frank Yonce