Calvary Lutheran Church
3rd Quarter Voters Meeting
Sunday July 13, 2025
There were 29 voting members present, see below for list of members. The meeting was opened in due form by President Jim Hendrix.
Opening devotion – Pastor Ben Vanderhyde
Dominick Anderson moved to approve the agenda as amended. The motion passed.
Minutes of last voter’s meeting – Were not read as Reagan Cordell, is stepping in as the new acting secretary and we did not have a copy of the minutes from the previous meeting.
Treasurer Report – Joyce Kettelson
Loan amount for AC unit $220,000.00
Payment for AC unit $161,000.00 the remaining balance after installation unit $90,650.00. The total amount to be paid to Colgate Heating Inc is $251,650.00
Interest 4.95% for the loan. Mark Valko donated this interest rate. Jim Hendrix is having a meeting 7/14 planning on putting $15,000 towards the loan to get us to the next fiscal period Jan 1, 2026.
Robin Schneider went over the Treasurer’s report handed out to each member.
Dominick Anderson moved to approve the treasurer report and Brent Adler seconded. The motion passed.
Gifts and Memorials Report – Stacie Richardson was not present.
Financial Secretary – Luke Kettelson was not present.
Board Reports
Pastor Ben Vanderhyde –
● Church in the park August 24, 2025 at 9:00 am with Potluck following
● Confirmation classes will start mid August. No specific date was given.
● Planning on holding a new member adult class each year starting in December 2026.
Board of Elders – Dominick Anderson
● No new business items
● Working on updating the membership list but still have finalize.
Board of Education – Carrie Bivens
● Church in the park, would like ideas for games to play.
● Need volunteers for Sunday School. Would like it to be volunteers other than members
of the board.
● Vacation Bible school had an attendance of around 60 students.
● Carrie, Pastor and Audrey are working on planning their own VBS curriculum rather than
paying Concordia for curriculum for VBS.
Board of Social Ministries – Marcy Brown
● Still delivering items for Shut ins 3 members in town and 6 members at the nursing
home.
● Collecting items for Mana Pantry
● Provided Senior Breakfast
● Provided Brownies and ice cream for the 4th of July celebration.
● Donated $1500.00 for HVAC system
● Rummage sale will be September 6-7th.
Board of Discipleship – Kay Rosch
● They are visiting with the shut-in’s in the congregation.
Board of Youth Ministry – Dominick Anderson
● Getting together with pastor
● Higher things will be in Seward, NE at Concordia. They will have 5 youth attending.
● LVR has 2 attended with Pastor at the end of June.
● Pool Party at the end of the summer, will do a special fund this coming Sunday as it cost $600.00
● Helped moved a new member of the community into her apartment Saturday July, 2
Board of Assimilation/Fellowship – Kay Rosch
● No new business items.
Board of Trustees – Mitch Witte
● No one from the board of Trustees was present. Jim Hendrix discussed the new AC unit.
The process may be delayed due
● Rent property Mitch terminated the contractor that was doing the flooring, searching for a
new contractor.
● Roughly $25,000 to refurbish the property.
Board of Stewardship – Michelle Van Overbeke
● Continues to count after Wednesday and Sundays services.
● It has been suggested to add in more of a report to the bulletin.
● Going to work on a Bulletin regarding Stewardship.
Meetings for each of the different boards are set to meet for 1 hour on the Wednesday prior to the voter meeting.
New Business
Audit committee report: DeeAnn Stults gave a financial review as everything checked out fine. Curt Fix and DeeAnn sat down and reviewed a small portion of the financial transactions, financial statements and cash flow. She recommended that an outside source such as an auditor come in to do an financial audit versus do an in house financial review. DeeAnn Stults motioned to have an outside source do an audit;
Dominick Anderson seconded. Michelle VanOverbeke spoke on the fact it is very expensive to have an Auditor come in and so she recommended that she would volunteer to help do a more thorough review. DeeAnn made an amendment to the first motion; the amendment is that the audit committee along with Michelle will come up with an outline to do a more thorough review. The amendment was voted on and majority
rules.
The nominating committee reached out to Reagan Cordell to have her step in as acting
Secretary. Jim Motioned, Derek Anderson seconded, motion passed.
Jim Hendrix discussed the first payment for the cooling system will be due in August.
Dominick Anderson gave a report on Convention and different items that were voted on.
Missionary Support: Makia Adler is still doing fundraising for her missionary. Joyce and Grace are looking for individuals to organize a fundraising event to raise funds for Makia.
Update on missions teams Jan 14th they are headed to Thailand. 7 members will be attending.
Improvements for announcements
a. Discussed different ways to reach out to members to get them to attend
Fellowship. Diana discussed the different ways of communication etc facebook, website, Newsletter, text message and bulletin.
b. A bigger issue is people exiting directly following service and not attending fellowship. The pastor recommended a phone tree example such as “he reaches out to 10 people and then those people reach out to 2-3 individuals”. This would need a drawn up plan.
Old Business
Derrick Anderson discussed the idea of a new sound system that is more permanent so
that we do not have to haul this portable system for meetings. Jim Hendrix explained that
Curt Fix is planning on purchasing a Bose system from Wade Quiggle.
The meeting was closed with the Lord’s Prayer at 2:09 PM.
Respectfully submitted,
Reagan Cordell, Acting Secretary
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