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MISSIONARY INDEPENDENT SPIRITUAL CHURCH


Newsletter Vol. 6 No. 2

07-05-11

BOARD MEETING MINUTES: July 5, 2011

Minutes for Board Meeting of 
	Missionary Independent Spiritual Church

July 5, 2011, 3pm to 4:30pm PT, conference phone

Present by phone conference call:

	Sindy Todo
	Fred Burke
	catherine yronwode
	nagasiva yronwode
	
	Briana Saussy is absent, yet spoke with catherine and
	provided her approval in absentia where it applied.
	
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1. UPDATE FROM THE SECRETARY (Bishop nagasiva yronwode)

	nagasiva reports that the CSL books for Sindy were mailed;
	with the bank statements and phone bills.
	
	IRS has received and sent a form letter in response to our
	application for 501(c)(3) tax exemption indicating that they
	have received it.

  	Sindy says it's premature to move to any sort of payroll, based
  	on her knowledge and consult with a CPA, liable to complicate
  	the application for tax exemption. We therefore decided to wait
  	until we have that approval. We need to get our filing routinized
  	(form 941?). Sales are a separate matter, which just require a CA
  	resale license. For that, catherine (as President) needs to get
  	a photo-ID (such as on her passport). This is also required for 
  	Banking Online for the church so that the Treasurer can more
  	easily do business.

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2.	DISCUSSION/IDEAS ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE
		CRYSTAL SILENCE LEAGUE (Led by Bishop catherine yronwode)

	Prayer Requests processing needs to be initiated on the web site.
	catherine suggests that $200 be put toward this purpose from 
	church funds; Fred volunteered time to work on it; all approved.
	Fred will provide the technical assistance if possible.
	
	The domain "crystalsilence.org" ought be toggled to roll over
	to crystalsilenceleague.org (auto-redirect). The username and
	password were received. nagasiva will attempt to arrange this.

	AIRR members should be advised that they may wish to be join
	the CSL. catherine will write a note to inform them that it's
	another Church committee, not affiliated with AIRR directly,
	but that there are overlaps.

	* It was mentioned that Susan Diamond has an online guest book
	for prayer requests. CSL needs to standardize the way of
	becoming a member (by purchasing a $5 book, which is otherwise
	free with any crystal ball (some of these only costing $1-$2,
	and therefore a minimum in expense.

	* Sindy brought up the idea of AIRR listing@ CSL
	@ http://crystalsilenceleague.org/associationofindependentreadersandrootworkers.html
	perhaps with a graphic of a crystal ball image with AIRR logo
	inside it for the AIRR page (linking to the RnR page).

	* Mention was made that AIRR members can have a link to CSL on
	their page at AIRR; FIX FOOTER ON ALL RELEVANT PAGES
	The Community Portal is another option for linkage:
	http://readersandrootworkers.org/wiki/Association_of_Independent_Readers_and_Rootworkers:Community_Portal
	Pro Bono work; prayer link from
	http://readersandrootworkers.org/wiki/Pro_Bono_Fund
	
	* Sindy's page last paragraph of text can read:
		"I am a founding organizer of the Association of Independent
		 Readers and Rootworkers (AIRR). I am on the Board of Bishops
		 for Missionary Independent Spiritual Church (MISC) as
		 Treasurer. I was an early graduate of the Lucky Mojo
		 Hoodoo Correspondence Course. 
					
	{FRED WILL WORK ON WORDING.}
	
		"I am a member of the Crystal Silence League ((1)link to
		 top page) and am ready to assist you spiritually if you
		 leave a prayer request. I will pray on your behalf if
		 you leave me a prayer request (2)link to prayer
		 request page)."

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3.	UPDATE ON AFFILIATIONS

Two new prospects for affiliation were presented:

	* D. John Michael Hilford would like to affiliate his church:
	  Divine Harmony Spiritual Church
	  http://www.divineharmonyspiritualchurch.com/divineharmonyspiritualchurch.com/
	  Note: Rev. Adele Clemens originator of the church.
  
	* Rev. Dr. Christos Kioni (Bishop Emeritus) would also like to affiliate his church:
	  Spiritualist Church of African Traditions - Yahweh, a.k.a. Church of Juju
	  http://www.churchofjuju.org
	  Note: Incorporated in the state of Florida, August 23, 2010.

These were both approved for affiliation without dissent.

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4. FAN FUND UPDATE

  	Fan proofs are all but 1 turned in; all present agree that Fred
  	can give approval based on proofs if he is satisfied with them; 
  	1 away from being ready to move forward!

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5. AIRR

	Jeffrey Vanderson wants to join AIRR.
		
  	Badgerwoman (Sherri Bean) is a transcriptionist and she offered
  	to do transcription for members of AIRR to record their
  	readings/rituals/lectures. She will do transcribing for %15 
  	discount, and her prices are already competitive.

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