[[2023-08-12 (Saturday)]]

Kiera's situation

- Needed a place to stay Saturday night
- She's in North Dakota, returning today
- She can't return home, dad sold house
- Holly said she can use their car
- Kiera wanted to sleep in Holly's car behind the chapel, can't do that for the sake of our neighbors, not safe for her
- She could have been working on this last weekend, instead of travelling up north!
- Still have job? Don't know…
- Figure out something temporarily, then have direct conversation with her
- Extended Stay is an option, to the end of the month, looks to be around $43/night
- Talk to deacons about paying for this stay
- Talk to Kiera about it
- Get Stephanie involved in discipling her--good idea to get help Kiera handle things straight!
- Todd will call Stephanie
 
Spanish conference

- David and Geraldine Cayama were there, David looked back, bronchitis turned to pneumonia
- Geraldine taking care of him at home, lost some work hours because of this, job where she does cleaning for hotels, can go back to it, hasn't lost this permanently
- Not doing well financially, possibly, Pete not 100% sure, Geraldine wasn't super clear
- May need financial help there
- Share with the deacons
 
From men's business meeting:

- What are the chapel's ministry priorities?
- Helps fund: how much do we want to commit?
 
Jim Hasemeyer

- Speaker at the spanish conference
 
Pathways conflicting with prayer meeting

- Reach out to Grayson, consider options
- Pathways set for this semester?
- Could be several ways to make prayer meeting more efficient--shorter time for requests
 
Conversation with Darrin

- Steve and Pete talked together
- Darrin approached elders, confused on what to do to go forward
- Wants to get to Japan quickly
- Seems slow going through Pioneer
- We would help him along through CMML, we commend through CMML
- Darrin, doesn't have car, haven't seen him work with others
- Expect it to take 2-3 years to get there, quickest way would be to get a job there, he has training in ESL
- Would encourage him that way, taking a job would accept him in the culture
- Steve cautioned Darrin not to be too American--mentioned that this gets in Brock's way sometimes