Dear First United Methodist Church Members, as we move into April, we are saddened to say good-bye to Jo , who has served our church faithfully for many years. Jo and her husband Randy are returning to Missouri when their home in Douglas sells. When I took over as chairperson of One Church Council, I never dreamed that I wouldn’t have a minister to guide me; I had that guidance for seven months. Now, eight months later, I can tell you that I wouldn’t have survived without Jo’s patient guidance on budget and church events. Lorraine  will be filling Jo’s position as office manager as a volunteer.

Lorraine will be in the office Monday. Tuesday and Thursday from 9 a.m. until 12 p.m. She is implementing a new system for the budget, which is on the ICON system recommended by the church. Your end-of-the-year donation report was from this system. OCC will be using new reports at our April meeting.

Every spring we are asked to take from our Methodist Helping Methodist Foundation account three to five percent of our funds. This money can be used for church repairs. Some of that money will be used to place railings on both sides of the steps going to the altar as two individuals have fallen on those steps. Other projects will be discussed in future months.

One Church Council was approached to rent an upstairs room to Jennifer for an office. She will begin using the room on June 1, but there will not be employees other than Jennifer and her children. Jennifer will provide her own office furniture, equipment and will be taking care of the cleaning.

One Church Council hopes that each of you have a blessed Easter. Please know that you are very welcome at our services at 10 a.m. every Sunday. Without a minister the congregation have taken over the message for the week. Many motivating talks from the heart have been given. The last Sunday of each month we are blessed to have Zane deliver the sermon. He is studying theology and leading us through the Book of Galatians; his sermons are very informative and inspiring.

Connie 

One Church Council chairperson