Feb 2024 Session Highlights

March 6, 2024

Feb 2024 Session Highlights 

  • Elected Greg Taylor as President and Tracey Kinney as Vice President of the Derry Presbyterian Church, Inc.
  • Approved the use of the church building for two upcoming weddings:
    • Claire Folts and Alex Petterson on Wednesday, August 14, 2024 at 5:30 pm
    • Tiffany Mittereder & Chris Damron on Saturday, May 31, 2025
  • Reviewed and approved the Covenant of Agreement between Derry Church and Shawn Gray which will go into effect upon Shawn’s ordination. Use of this format is required by the Presbytery’s Committee on Ministry for supply pastoral services.
  • The Clerk presented the 2023 Church Statistical Report, which was reviewed and approved.
  • The Stewardship & Finance Committee submitted several requests affecting Derry’s Northwest and Vanguard accounts. All were approved:
    • Close out a low-interest money market account in the amount of $87,000 at Northwest Savings and open a 12-month CD at a higher interest rate at that institution
    • Add Greg Taylor and Duncan Campbell as authorized signers on all Northwest accounts
    • Keep Duncan Campbell and Greg Taylor as authorized signers on Derry’s Vanguard accounts and remove all other previously approved signers
    • Link the Northwest checking account to the Vanguard Money Market account
    • Obtain a credit card with a $5,000 limit for Shawn Gray.
  • In reviewing church accounts, the Treasurer found that pre-paid pledges totaling $50,000 had been recorded in a dedicated account. Stewardship & Finance requested approval to distribute this amount one-half to the Legacy Fund and one-half to the Capital Facilities Fund. The Session supported this request.
  • Building and Grounds requested permission to use approximately $1,800 from the Cemetery Fund to purchase 20 brass flag holders and 23 flags to mark specific graves in Derry’s cemetery. The Session approved the request.
  • Derry’s One Great Hour of Sharing offering will be split equally between PCUSA, for disaster, hunger, and development ministries, and Bridges to Community’s ministry of building homes.
  • Session supported a request from Pastor Stephen and Tom Kitzmiller to use up to $1,000 from the Futures Fund to purchase items not previously donated for Anne Burke’s confirmation project, Ian’s Baskets.