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MISSIONARY INDEPENDENT SPIRITUAL CHURCH


Newsletter Vol. 6 No. 3

08-30-11

BOARD MEETING MINUTES: August 30, 2011

Minutes for Board Meeting of 
	Missionary Independent Spiritual Church

8/30/11, 2pm - 3:30pm

Attending were:

		Briana Saussy
		Sind Todo
		Fred Burke
		catherine yronwode
		nagasiva yronwode
		
	by phone conference.

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1. AIRR REPORTS

a. Evaluation of Marin Graves (Reading/Interview)

	The evaluation committee consisted of Fred Burke,
	Valentina Burton and Briana Saussy; catherine did
	the reading.
	
	http://www.readersandrootworkers.org/index.php?title=Marin_Graves

	Reading
	
		The interview was concluded with very good results. catherine 
		did reading with her. Marin did not recommend rootwork, candle 
		services; only did a reading, but she requested feedback and
		was quite professional as a reader. Marin said that KEEN
		experience predisposed her to avoid that kind of activity.
		She was informed that this would be important for AIRR
		members, but otherwise performed excellently.

	Interview
	
		This also went very well. Marin was professional and candid.
		She's working on her website (under construction). Photograph
		suggestions were helpful to her (bars of soap) and she will
		be adding changes to her page/photographs. She wants to use
		AIRR to draw rootwork clients. Her website indicates readings.
		She was a paralegal in Nevada City NV (and thus is fond of
		court case help); She needs to direct her page(s) toward
		specialization, and 60/70$ difference of reading rates
		needs to be reconciled. Overall she provided the information
		requested and was very satisfactory as a candidate.
			
VOTES = 5 YES VOTES

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b. AIRR EVALUATION FOR JEFFREY VANDERSON

	The evaluation committee consisted of Fred Burke,
	Miss Michaele and Briana Saussy; catherine did
	the reading.
	
 			http://www.readersandrootworkers.org/index.php?title=Jeffrey_Vanderson

	Reading
		Jeffrey is running the CSL Newsletter. catherine's known him
		for a long time. He's done rootwork for a long time, conducted
		a reading with catherine with very good results. He's a
		spiritualist medium and is used to doing in-person readings.
		He has an excellent telephone manner. He plans to open a shop
		(based in Alabama).

	Interview
		This went very well also. Entertainment readings. His grandmother
		role in his life influenced him. His manner is genteel, excellent
		phone style, knowledge. A Southern gentleman. Photos for his page
		are under revision. His personal pages to be revised toward more
		specifically rootwork standards. He travels, and does a lot of 
		work in lot person.

VOTES = 5 YES VOTES


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c. Tech Team Meetings

	Best time for catherine and Briana is 10am PT Tuesdays.
	catherine, Eddy, and Ali will negotiate another time.
	
	Next project: JEFFREY / MARIN.

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2. AFFILIATION COMMITTEE (Set-Up)

a. Head of Committee and Volunteers

	In order to streamline requests for affiliation,
	does the Board wish to create an Affiliation
	Committee to investigate requests for affiliation
	and report findings to the Board for review and vote?

	Head of Affiliation Committee: catherine yronwode

	Volunteers part of the committee: 
	nagasiva, Briana (not Tue/Thurs), and Fred
		
VOTES = 5 YES VOTES

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b. Yearly Disks for Affiliate Church Pastors

		Proposal to streamline updates to pastor materials 
		such as booklets for printing and distribution, 
		church fans, membership cards, ordination papers, 
		warrants of affiliation, and so forth:

			* Ordination papers to be sent upon request, 	
				not at the first of the year.
  
			* Warrants of Affiliation to be sent upon 
				formal acceptance into the denomination, 
				not at the first of the year.
 
			* All other materials to be sent in yearly 
				packets, including fans and pdf discs
				with updates to booklets, cards, and 
				other material available for local
				printing and distribution. 		
        	
VOTES = 5 YES VOTES

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3. FAN FUND

	Report from the Fan Committee on the status of the fans: 
	4 of 5 are in now. The last one is to be completed.
	Yesterday final specifications were provided to the
	manufacturer: Jesus with Lambs.

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4. CRYSTAL SILENCE LEAGUE

	Newsletter
		Under construction by Jeffrey Vanderson
		
	Social network sites
		CSL Fb page 200+ fans. Sindy will speak with catherine
		or nagasiva about social networking sites.
	
	Web site
		Oran Davis worked on the site and was paid another $200.
		It was revised to have Pastor prayer, cookies for Pastors
		and Members, and adding members is now being constructed.
		Board members must log in as pastors to see the back end
		of the CSL site; expect to spend 5 - 10 minutes in review. 

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5.	BOARD MEETINGS

	Should the Board schedule regular bi-monthly meetings with
	proposed agendas such as this, rather than following our
	previous policy of yearly meetings with extra meetings
	called only to deal with new or emergency issues?
  	
	Sindy suggested 1/ quarter.
		
	Generally a helpful time may be Tues/Thurs: afternoon 2:00pm.
		
	Board members were requested to send dates for Oct/Dec to the
	Secretary for the last week in October and December.

	There was general agreement that regular meetings would
	be helpful to conduct the business of the church.
	
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6. DENOMINATION

a. Briana is closing the Sanctuary of Divine Light

	* It is due to insufficient time (new baby, home, etc.).

	* She will continue participating with Crystal Silence League.
	
	* Her website will need repair or adjustment. Fred will arrange
		with Bri to roll over in the page code; There is a 3 day
		window before it's finished with its hosting. Bri will work
		with Fred to achieve the best way to finish it up.

		Data to be determined:
		domain name cost / year: 
			- registration: 3-5 years 
			- hosting: 30-50 / mo
			- redirect: negligible.
			
		Fred said that he could take over the hosting himself.

	* Sindy suggested commitment in duration be formalized for
		affiliates. There was some vocal agreement on this point.

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b. Review of Affiliation With Trolldomskappelet: 
		Johannes Gardback, Benedikte Lindstrom, Ida Lunden
		They painted their building in the MISC colours
		and are performing Crystal Silence League prayers 
		there, but have not yet sent a formal request for
		affiliation. Catherine is in correspondence. 
		When and if they apply for affiliation, the 
		Board will need to approve them. This is more 
		or less a heads-up. See
        http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150314800347328&set=a.411839027327.183315.235640242327&type=1&theater

			No vote required unless they apply by the 
			time of this meeting. 

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