Your council continues to work on your behalf to meet God's calling. This Clerks Corner will review the decisions of the January Council meeting at the Annual Congregational Meeting.

At the 1/22/2013 Council meeting the elders approved the following;

Receipt of the December and yearend financial reports

They also reviewed the purpose, structure and talking points of the "Super Tuesday" meetings and how to move the Logic Matrix Model of goals, objectives, and activities through each of the teams. This focused method of "doing church business" will help us to meet our overall transformational goals.

At the Annual Congregational Meeting on 1/27/2013 the following business was accomplished;

• Reviewed a few of the high points in the Year in Review
  • Journey Advocates participation
  • 2 Leadership retreats
  • Food distribution
  • 6th year of Remix
  • Homebound visitations
  • Ordination of Rev. Lina Thompson
  • Weddings and baptisms
  • Encounter God in Worship
  • Engage as the hands and feet of Jesus
  • Encourage one another
  • PCUSA Multicultural Conference
• Opened the meeting with a call to order and prayer
• Received the minutes of the 2012 Annual Congregational meeting
• Received the clerks report
• Recognized the retiring officers; Paul Larson, Rhonda Duncan and Cindy Waddington. They were thanked for their leadership and unique contributions to LBPC in each of their roles.
• Approved the new bylaws as amended and presented.
• Elected new ruling elders; Paul Larson (of Paul and Lisa Larson), Margarita Suarez and Norma Kastien
• Elected the Nominating Committee for the year; Margarita Suarez, chair, Melinda-Mackey O' Brien, Peggy Meyer, Jennette Robertson, Beth Williams and Rev. Dr. Tobin E. Wilson as ex-officio member.
• Received the Yearend Financial Report
• Received the 2013 Budget
• Approved the Terms of Call for Rev. Dr. Tobin E. Wilson.
• Elected and approved that all of the Ruling Elders are called to be on the Board of Trustees.
• Elected officers of the corporation; President Steve Turner, Secretary Melinda Glass, and Treasurer Anne Tiernan.
• Remembered Betty Larson, member who passed this year.
• The meeting was closed with prayer.

Thank you all for your leadership, commitment and joy in your work at LBPC.

Respectfully submitted,

Melinda Glass

LBPC clerk

LEANING INTO LENT

a sermon series designed to provide meaningful
Lenten thoughts utilizing the lectionary readings

Feb 13

ASH Wednesday in chapel at 6:45 PM

Feb 17

Lean
Lean into the Wilderness

Romans 10:8b-13, Luke 4:1-13

Feb 24

Lean Into One Another

Phil 3:17-4:1; Luke 13:31-35

March 3

Lean Into Your Thirst

Is 55:1-9; Psalm 63:1-8

March 10

Lean Into a "New You"

2 Cor 5:16-21; Luke 15:1-3,11b-32

March 17

Lean Into "No Resume'"

Phil 3:4b-14;John 12:1-8

March 24

Lean Into the Story

Luke 23:1-49

March 29

TENEBRAE SERVICE 7 PM

March 31

EASTER SUNDAY

The Two Christianity's of Les Miserables'

You are invited to a Lenten Fireside Book Club on March 3, 10, 17 and 24 from 11:15 to noon. Bring your own book, which you can purchase from amazon.com or just get a cup of coffee and join in.

Joan Chittister, one of our most celebrated spiritual writers, invites us to embrace older age as a natural part of life that is both active and contemplative, productive and reflective, and deeply rewarding. She encourages us to cherish the blessings of agina and to overcome its challenges. And she shows us clearly that this is a special period of life--maybe the most special of them all. Older age gives us wisdom, freedom, and prosperity of another kind. Older age enlightens--not simply ourselves, but also those around us. To live these years well, we need to look at every one of them head up and alive. Life is not about age, about the length of years we manage to eke out of it. It is about living into the values offered every day, about growing older with grace.

The Gift of Years looks at the many dimensions of aging, the purposes and concerns, struggles and surprises, the potential and joys. It deals with the sense of rejection that comes from feeling out of it. It reflects on the temptation to isolate oneself from the changes taking place, and on the need to stay involved. It discusses issues of health and well-being and the need to put one's affairs in order. It describes what happens as old relationships end and shift, change and disappear in favor of the many new people and new challenges that come to take their place. It talks about the fear of tomorrow and the mystery of forever--and how to cope with it all. It is a panoply of central issues that emerge with age to bring us to the fullness of life, to make us new again.