SCC minutes for Sunday, October 23, 1994

The meeting opened with devotions by Jeremy.

Erik's and Krista's names were misspelled in September's minutes. They're correct now.

Committee Reports

• Outreach is still going.
• Worship is working on liturgies and themes for the spring. During Advent there will be an added 9PM Wed. service at Memorial Union.
• Education (Erik Rudeen). Posters for Mary Rouse's visit were taken down within a couple days of being put up. But Erik will persevere and put up posters for Pat Richter's visit.
• Social Ministry (Emily Farwell). The current theme of relationships is ending soon. Next up is reality, including an artist and a volunteer with the homeless giving their perspectives on life.
• Social Activities (Krista Bultmann). An Italian potluck and Italian folk dancing are being held on Friday, Nov. 11. We discussed the winter banquet: should it be catered (expensive but little work), homemade (inexpensive but a lot of work and staff would get stuck doing the dishes while everyone else was dancing), or potluck (cheap, but then it isn't a banquet)? Our decision was to have the dinner catered and subsidize about $5 to keep the ticket prices down to $10.
• Fine Arts. Jodi knows someone who paints psychedelic vegetables. That's the exhibit for November. Go see it today!
• Directing Committee is getting ready to conduct annual staff reviews.
• Staff. Brent talked to Marsh Shapiro (of the Nitty Gritty) about celebrating Martin Luther's birthday. Staff will provide 32 coupons (32 = 511 years / 95 theses * 6 parts of the small catechism) for students to get a free beer or pop on Nov. 11.

September and October Review

• There were many new people at the Welcome Banquet.
• Only 14 or 15 people gave blood at the blood drive. How can we reach 20? One suggestion was having "blood buddies" and going in groups to encourage those who might otherwise be afraid. Another possibility is having a wall of fame for those who donated and a wall of shame of those who promised to donate but forgot. Or instead of having blood drives, we could have join the one-a-week club. That would require getting at least eight dedicated donors so that one would be eligible to donate each week.

Upcoming SCC meetings

• November 20 - next SCC meeting.
• December 3 - Planning meeting.
• December 4 - SCC meeting to review the plan for spring.
• January 28 - mini-retreat with the Directing Committee.
• February 19 - SCC meeting.
• March 26 - SCC meeting.
• April 23 - SCC meeting.
• May 6 - likely date of the fall planning meeting.
• May 7 - likely date of the SCC planning meeting post-mortem.

Other Business