Archived Minutes:

Sabbath School Council Meeting

Sunday, February 04, 2007 9:00 AM

Ryan’s Steak House, Beaumont, Texas

Members present: Suresh Indupalli, Grace Palmer, Pastor Brooks Bentzinger, Mauva Colbert, Dorette Shakes, Daniel Siringi, Malou Pedro

                               Minutes of the meeting presided by Dr. Suresh Indupalli

020407-1         Opening prayer by Mauva Colbert @ 0920

020407-2         Discussed the importance of mission report/mission stories each Sabbath program. Make sure that each superintendent must include mission talk/ mission report for it is the heart of the Sabbath school program. Here are the strategies the council planned to implement:

A. DVD/TV screen-combine juniors and youth in one room so they could watch mission stories, reports.

B. globe/map-place maps or globes so that their teacher can spin and show them a particular country where their offering goes. This way they could appreciate most specially the primary and those in the cradle roll classes that mission work is real and it is important.

C. Involve families in Sabbath school program. Give different task for every member to complete one program, like the mother will do the opening prayer, the children will lead the singing, the father will do the mission report etc.

D. make presentation very creative and interesting like using PowerPoint

E. goal setting. To increase mission offering-the council is aiming to reach a goal of $800    by the end of March. An offering meter is placed at the entrance of the sanctuary to monitor progress of the set goal.

F. checking of attendance for every class-this is a way of monitoring members who attends Sabbath school regularly. A “we missed you” card is to be sent to absent members to let them know that the church care about them.

G. Sabbath school report is also an important part of the Sabbath school program. Each Sabbath Grace Palmer or Malou Pedro will give an account of what is happening in Sabbath school, the number of attendance  and how much offering was collected for the past Sabbath and other things concerning Sabbath school.

020407-3         Visit our Sabbath school website for Beaumont SDA Church @ www.sabbathschool.us

020407-4         Sabbath School quarterlies: Anyone who needs large prints or interested to have a Teacher’s Edition must inform Mrs. Grace Palmer so that orders made are just enough.

020407-5         Next meeting will be on August 5, 2007 @ Ryan’s Steak House in Dowlen Road.9:00AM 10:55am

Meeting was ended by a prayer by Pastor Brooks Bentzinger.

Meeting adjourned