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2.1 KiB

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