{"id":1480,"date":"2014-12-30T12:33:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-30T19:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.communitychurchofboston.org\/home\/?p=1480"},"modified":"2014-12-30T12:33:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T19:33:00","slug":"december-2014-board-meeting-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.communitychurchofboston.org\/home\/newsletter\/december-2014-board-meeting-minutes\/","title":{"rendered":"December 2014 Board Meeting Minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The Community Church of Boston<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong><br \/>\nMinutes of Board of Officers and Directors Meeting:\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong><strong>December 11<sup>th<\/sup>, 2014<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nProgram Committee:<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0From September 14 through December 31, the Church will have had sixteen programs and seventeen speakers of diversity. For 2015, there are nine spots filled and fourteen open. There are four slots open in April. During January and February, 2015, Stephen Kinzer, well known journalist and author, and Reverend David Carl Olson, former minister of CCB, will be amongst the featured Sunday morning speakers. The Church is also seeking speakers to discuss topics concerning Gaza and Ferguson.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Financial Matters:<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0The Church is in \u00e2\u20ac\u0153fine position\u00e2\u20ac\u009d financially due to the lack of a Church leader, according to the treasurer, who stated that a budget will be formulated at the beginning of 2015. The Church needs to employ more individuals in order to increase the size of the congregation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Building Committee:<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0The president presented a detailed report on recent repairs and maintenance concerning the Church. He was also instrumental in organizing a concert held at CCB on December 5, against climate change to benefit 350MA.org. Approximately fifty people attended, listening to Persian and Indian classical music, as well as jazz from an ensemble of Berklee professors.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Various Concerns:<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0Karla Rab has resigned from the Prison Committee due to personal reasons.<\/p>\n<p><em>The next scheduled meeting of the board is Thursday, January 15<sup>th<\/sup>, 2015.<\/p>\n<p><\/em>-Dick Keshishian, Clerk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Community Church of Boston Minutes of Board of Officers and Directors Meeting:\u00c2\u00a0December 11th, 2014 Program Committee:\u00c2\u00a0From September 14 through December 31, the Church will have had sixteen programs and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsletter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.communitychurchofboston.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.communitychurchofboston.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.communitychurchofboston.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.communitychurchofboston.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.communitychurchofboston.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.communitychurchofboston.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1481,"href":"http:\/\/www.communitychurchofboston.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480\/revisions\/1481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.communitychurchofboston.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.communitychurchofboston.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.communitychurchofboston.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The constant WPCACHEHOME must be set in the file wp-config.php and point at the WP Super Cache plugin directory. -->