Lawrence

Church Finance Meeting
Wednesday - December 17th – 2008 – 09:00 a.m.

Present-
Mr. Lawrence Heasman
Pastor Robert Farrell

1. FUTURE MEETINGS
Robert wanted this to be a meeting that began a conversation on finances and was simply to be a high level overview of the way ahead, to that end, we would be talking around preparing for three further meetings
1.1. Monday January 5th 09:00am at Sainsburys
1.1.1. To finalise the budget details that have been passed through to Robert thus far. Robert will get these details to Lawrence asap.
1.1.1.1. Action 01 – Complete by – January 5th - Robert
1.1.2. Monday January 12th 19:30pm Elders Meeting at Andrews
1.1.3. To finalise the details we would be preparing for the coming year and the AGM
1.2. Wednesday February 04th 19:30pm A.G.M.

2. GIVING DAY
2.1. My I propose we have the church giving day on Sunday February 15th, St Valentines Day!
2.2. I know we briefly discussed making sure that we had a project to give to, which I totally agree. I reckon this will be the ‘Kitchen’ and any top up needed for doing the front of the church building and disabled toilets etc.
2.3. Lawrence indicated that it would be good for someone else to pick up the organisation and care of the Kitchen especially as it related to having a cooker and all the connected health and safety requirements. That being the case, Robert suggested Steve Wright, HOD for hospitality should be the one to head this one up. Robert will approach Steve to verify this
2.3.1. – Action 01 – Complete by – January 5th - Robert

3. SALE OF MANSE
3.1. Lawrence indicated that we should clear some £67,000
3.2. Together with approx £22,000 we have in the bank we have around £89,000
3.3. Last year we took in between £28,000- £30,000

4. RING FENCING ROBERT’S SALARY
4.1. Robert indicated that we would do our very best to ring fence his salary for the next two years- At around £80,000 for those two years, and projected income (assuming it remains the same at £60,000 – then we would have to lay aside £20,000 out of existing funds to meet this need.

5. FUTURE USE OF CHURCH FLAT
5.1. Robert indicated that we needed to employ Luke in the future (July 1st 2009) and as payment for 20 hours per week, see that he had a place to live. In addition to this the other two rooms would be used for two more church workers. Lawrence suggested that if that was the case then it was pretty pointless renting it out even for the short term as work needed to be done on the property. Robert agreed.
5.2. Robert will work with the Elders and Trustees to get a contract written up for Luke
5.3. Robert will work with Richard in sourcing a church worker from a Bible college for a year
5.4. Robert will liaise with the elders about who will occupy the 3rd room.

Thanks Lawrence, I look forward to meeting with you on the 5th Of January.

Final Punch List

Final Punch List For WhisperingWord
October 13th 2008

Please note that I find a total of 23 'Bugs' which need fixing
I list them as follows:-

Main Index Page ------------------- = 05
Rev Farrell Page - About me---------= 01
Rev Farrell Page - References-------= 04
Resources Page - Books Page---------= 03
Resource Page - Blogs---------------= 06
Events Page-------------------------= 04

As I said, a total of 23 'Bugs' which need fixing
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Main Index Page
http://whisperingword.com/index.aspx/

Index Page 01) Additional Home Page Indicator
Though I personally like and want to keep the WhisperingWord Dare to Listen section of the banner as the click point for returning to the home page, a number of people have suggested the placing of a small house/home icon to the right of the sermon player button.

Index Page 02) Search Site Button
This just isn't working. Type int he words, HOPE or NIGHT and it just refreshes the index page.

Index Page 03) Upcoming Events Display
This seems to display every up coming event, thus making the Index page very untidy and visually unpleasant. I suspect the only answer is to show one single event alone.(I.E. the next one that is up and coming!) two at the very most, this will retain the visual integrity of the page. The 'view all' feature should still be available in this single event index page view.

Index Page 04) Privacy Policy Box Dimensions
This box needs to open in a larger square rather than the long oblong

Index Page 05) Press Kit PDF
This uploads OK and is down loadable. However, on the upload, the PDF is given a completely different and numeric file name?

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Rev. Farrell Page
About Me Page
http://whisperingword.com/AboutMe.aspx

About Me page 01) PDF Opening
The PDF is working, but again, is there any way of getting this to open in a separate page?
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Rev. Farrell Page
References Page
http://whisperingword.com/References.aspx

Reference Page 01) IE Crash
Please Note that whenever I try to use Governor in this section, I constantly get an Internet explorer shut down and restart at some point!

References Page 02) All Years not displayed
Though governor shows 5 test years - only 3 are displayed. Attempts to add another year and document crashes IE

Refrences Page 03) PDF problems
Though on 1987, this is just a test, too ,- the correct PDF with correct file name as attached. It does not open.HTTP Error 404.0 - Not Found
The resource you are looking for has been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable.

References Page 04) PDF and Year Display Problems
Within Governor - i can see the test years 1981, 1980 and 1980. However I cannot see them displayed out of governor on the actual website, and again the uploaded PDF is not the actual file name but has been assigned a number?

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Resources Page
Books Page
http://whisperingword.com/Book.aspx

Book page 01) Introductory Page
The Introduction Text us bunched over to the LHS. There is some kind of a margin issue here which I cannot correct.

Book Page 02) When Editing on Books page / books detail page
- see http://whisperingw.eweb701.discountasp.net/BookDetail.aspx?Id=21
The management screen in Governor is not long enough on the bottom to show managed PDF's

Book Page 03) PDF digital number replacement of file name
Also please note - it looks as though a digital file number is used on a PDF if the file has a duplicate name

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Resources Page
Blogs
http://whisperingword.com/Blog.aspx?T=s

Blogs Page 01) Key Word Creation
Creating a New key Word actually creates 2

Blogs Page 02) Key Words List Alphabetical Listing
These KeyWords go on FOREVER! any chance we could put all the A's under a and b's under B etc

Blogs Page 03) Search is incomplete
The search on Key Words doesn't actually work. It calls up some and not others?

Blogs Page 04) Add Picture problems
On the import some pictures have been duplicated? I am not sure how but see for example
http://whisperingw.eweb701.discountasp.net/BlogDetail.aspx?Id=601
It looks to me as though the main picture has a blog location in it - though i cannot see it. AND the blog text also has the same embedded URL from the original blog.

Blogs 05) Archiving
In all the dialogue we have had over the developers system, I see that some request have been missed and some logs have disappeared? In any event this FANTASTIC blog within the site is really missing the archiving features of the following two blogs these are drawn feom. (SEE LHS)
http://whisperingword.blogspot.com/
http://nightwhispering.blogspot.com/
Could this be replicated?

Blogs 06) Editing
Lack of archiving leads to editing problems. i have been trying to search for the blog of the day, delete it, and then create another edited one for the current day. Unfortunately search dysfunction parameters means that i cannot find the exisintg blogs! So I can see me eventually duplicating blogs and eventually having FAR TOO MANY!!! instead of the 2*366= 732 which I am after. I dunno, I suppose I was hoping for the blogger functionality within the WhispeirngWord website. I dont want to lose this feature as it is key to our plans, but, I do need to be able to use it? any ideas?

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Events Page
http://whisperingw.eweb701.discountasp.net/Event.aspx

Events Page 01) Events related links
All upcoming events with related links, need to have these related links open in new page.

Events page 02) Calendar Squares
There are some problems here for sure. You will notice that 7th and 13th of October are highlight Orange---but there is nothing in them?

Events page 03) Event Pictures
The event Pictures don't display correctly.

Events Page 04) Making event appear on Calendar display
Well sometimes they do and sometimes they don't! I think it may be related to the fact as to whether or not an image is available? Please investigate!

2 Days 'til Sunday - The End of Week 'Spring' Update For October 10th

Sunday Morning @ The Spring

Well we kick off again at 10:00 this Sunday Morning

I shall speaking on Number 6 in our Series of 7 Sermons on

Jacob The Twister - Prince With God - From Mess To Magnificence

and the sermon is entitled

"LET'S GET READY TO RUMBLE!!"

IT'S A SHOCKER!

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Sunday Night @ The Spring

See's us with our Sunday Night StingRay -

(In the next 30 minutes anything could happen)

We start at 18:30 with Coffee Cake

The Message Will Be Around The Current Subject of HOPE

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URGENT REMINDER

This Sunday Lunch is our Harvest Lunch Together

email Richard & or Claire in reference to what you might be bringing!

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People @ The Spring

Phyliss

Got a voicemail from Phylis saying that she was now having some blood pressure medication issues. So do keep praying for her. She is being wise staying at home but is also a little frail a the moment.

Andy

Gonna meet with Andy this PM - but he is still on his back and in a lot of pain..

Leslie

Is out of Hospital - recovering but very tired

Helen

Went for a job interview yesterday - anyone heard anything?

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Pastor's Pondering's

GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS

Like you all, I am watching the present distress of the crash of global economic markets. Once the dust settles in a few weeks, Lawrence Heasman will be speaking one Sunday Night giving us some background on the problems and some insight into what we might expect to see economically.

Prayers @ The Spring

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The Sale of the manse is very important to us, so please pray that this goes thru - post haste!

I look forward to meeting with you all on Sunday

Pastor Robert