2/10/26 ADMINISTRATIVE COUNCIL MEETING SUMMARY

Discipleship Training — (Pastor Jim) the work we do involves answering the questions: what, how, when, who, and why. We talked about what makes our church team strong and successful. If we keep focus on the right reason, the why of what we do, with God there’s not anything that we can’t do.

Leadership Development – (Pastor Jim) Danita Cochrane was voted in as the Altar Guild Chair and Sally Keeling was voted in as Payroll Backup. Thank you for your service in these roles!

Finance Update — (Glen Cushman) 2025 we had a good year of financial performance and added $140,000 to the contingency fund. 98% of pledged income came in by the end of the year. However, non-pledged giving was considerably down. Expenses were underrun, especially by SPRC. Building maintenance ran over by a great deal (electric, gas, security, etc.).

Social Media Training – (George Adams) each of our committees needs to help create social media content. Patrick Scriven from Conference is coming to offer training on how to do this. Join us on Monday, March 2 at 6pm in room 21. We want at least one and hopefully two people from each committee to be present.

Budget – (Rachael Robinett) after two budget reconciliation meetings, a budget was created and presented to Ad Council for a vote. It passed so we now have a budget for 2026. This budget uses contingency funds that we have on hand. We are also starting a new stewardship committee focused on educating the congregation on what it takes to run the building, programs, and pay the staff. For a copy of the budget, contact the church office.

Ministry Opportunity Fund Grant — (Pastor Jim) the PNW Conference has created a “ministry opportunity fund” to distribute funds to some ministry initiatives that align with the MILE standard of the Bishop. This is an emerging program. They intend to go through a few grant cycles per year and the deadline for the first one is February 28. The first training is February 26.

Progress towards KUMC Goals — (Rachael Robinett) We have asked people to share what their committee/team is doing in working toward the KUMC goals. Finance is presenting in March. Here are the goals:

1.       Grow our church.

2.       Grow our faith.

3.       Communicate who we are.

4.       Increase social media presence.

5.       Respect and Honor our staff

6.       Ensure financial stability.

7.       Maintain our facility.

8.       Reduce our Carbon footprint.

The next Ad Council meeting is Tuesday, March 10 at 6:30pm via Zoom.