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+Kiera's situation
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+- 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
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+Spanish conference
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+- 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
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+From men's business meeting:
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+- What are the chapel's ministry priorities?
+- Helps fund: how much do we want to commit?
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+Jim Hasemeyer
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+- Speaker at the spanish conference
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+Pathways conflicting with prayer meeting
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+- 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
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+Conversation with Darrin
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+- 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