August 19, 2015 4:34 pm
Present: Summer D Clemenson, Karen G Clemenson, Jamie Holloway, Angelique Yoder, Lynn Brown, Jeremy Jones, Stephanie Rider, Jon Randall, Desiree Ouellette, Tia Ouellette, Jackson Guillihan, Karinsa Holmes-Solo, Jen White, Christal Hood, Talitha M Simila, Neal Hammond, Jhohanna Neely, Jessenia Perez, Tasha Hamilton, Claire E Beck, Dale Chamberlain, Sarah Jean Dye, Jazzy Brewer, Mindy Schlecht, Dale Waddell, Jacob A Beerman, Ted Grammout, John Coleman, Carol Tucker, Kim Walters, Carl Wirkkala, Amanda Short Wilson, Christine Pedersen Harper, Matthew Dalen, Dawn Gregg, Mike Wallin, Kristian Beam, Joshual Simila, Calvin Dowd, Niki Salinas, Clarence Beerman, Heidi Jo Jordan, Jeff Hamilton, Kim Lopez, Paige-Marie Baldwin, Chuck Davani Hendrickson, Eric Christiansen, Lori Hackett, Maggie Kennedy, Patrick Palmer, Audry Alana Dawson, Erika Campbell-Moon, Vashti Langford, Ellie Prince, Isaiah Morse,
Summer D Clemenson; Executive Director
This is an official virtual meeting called by Karen G Clemenson. We have found out that a local organization got a grant to maintain an online community resource database. Do you think we should continue maintaining ours? 1) We do not have anyone to maintain ours or answer our phones. 2) We do not have a liaison in the community, at this time, to continue to build it. Please answer below. Feel free to voice opinions and questions. My vote is only necessary in the case of a tie.
Audry Alana Dawson 8/19/2015 4:36 pm
Yes of course! Just because you have slow periods doesn’t mean that God is not at work♡
Summer D Clemenson; Executive Director 8/19/2015 5:21 pm
What if the time spent maintaining something that has already been duplicated in the community takes us away from a new direction God wants us to go?
Jhohanna Neely 8/19/2015 5:35 pm
I think there can never be too much information but I do understand the need for maintenence. I can help with that but I think we need a team to do it. Perhaps a link to the organization that maintains the database? Then we need to bounce ideas around about where to put our efforts.
Audry Alana Dawson 8/19/2015 5:46 pm
..yes but when you bounce a ball you create ripples that lead back to you. If you close a ministry that people assume is still available even if they are not using now then that’s a door that is closed to them when they need assistance. …
Summer D Clemenson; Executive Director 8/20/2015 6:04 pm
Reminder: we need officers to chime in with their vote.
Jhohanna Neely 8/20/2015 6:07 pm
I misunderstood sorry
Jamie Holloway; Secretary 8/21/2015 2:53 am
Secretary here. I have a question. What kind of database does the other place have? Are they just like our database? I think that we are all frustrated because of the non-communication between past members and their strong personalities. To be honest i haven’t checked the email in a while. I believe Karen and Summer are frustrated and have stopped meeting because they do not feel supported and that they are the only ones. I feel bad because of where I live I’m not able to help as much with physical labor, but I am a good manager and if we had virtual meetings and such again I would make an effort to be there. I would say yes, let’s get a grant to help us. I have no idea what a community liason person is or the job they would have. The only suggestion I have is perhaps the officers should get together and talk about it, even if it is over the chat system. And perhaps we need to make the liason person and the website updater person a officer so that they can be part of the meeting. I think Jhohanna Neely would like to do that. And I don’t know you well, but I think Summer and Karen does. Maybe that is something the officers need to discuss and perhaps vote Jhohanna in the job. Perhaps we can also use the on-line website to not only have the database of places that help with money and suffering, but perhaps for medical stuff and connecting national places together on line that can help in other communities. I know we want to support Love Overwhelming. I just saw on my local news about a place that does the exact same thing that Love Overwhelming does and I was surprised about the statistics of how many of the homeless are family and children. Do you know the numbers? Anyway I am voting for a meeting with the officers to talk about our next steps and perhaps Jhohanna Neely can be that as part of the liason person and website updater. That is my two cents….
Karen G Clemenson; President 8/31/2015 2:35 pm
I am trying to set up a meeting with just Jhohanna Neely. To see what her interest level is on taking a position in Living Ministries. I am also very excited that Jamie Holloway is talking with us about moving to Longview this summer so she can be a larger part of Living Ministries. Youth and Family Link has a grant to proceed with a database that is identical to ours. It is already in place. We can not go after grants until we are 501(c)3, which we are working on but it will take time. A liaison is basically that person who is the bridge between what we are wanting to do and what the community is doing. Summer D Clemenson will continue to maintain the website, although she would like to have someone trained to take over, if need be, but she is overwhelmed with the phone calls and communication. We are taking this time to reorganize. Of course we will ask for feedback from everybody so that we can make sure that we are all on the same page when it comes to what needs we fill in the community. Regarding an officers meeting, I think that is a very good idea. I would like to close this meeting and discuss calling another meeting at a later time.
Summer D Clemenson; Executive Director 8/31/2015 2:58 pm
Audry Alana Dawson I would love to have you come to one of our next Power Meetings. If you are interested in being a committee member, I know your heart is in the right place. In order to become a committee member, according to our Bylaws, you must come to 2 Power Meetings before you can be voted in. Of course you are always welcome to chime in as you have on virtual meetings and even if you don’t choose to become an official committee (advisory) board member, you are welcome to join us and be part of our conversations. Thank you for your input!
Summer D Clemenson; Executive Director 8/31/2015 3:05 pm
Although, we missed input from Lynn Brown, all officers have voted. I am closing this meeting. Karen G Clemenson will meet with Jhohanna Neely and then we will call a meeting of the officers to further discuss the direction we need to go. Thank you, to all who voiced their opinions. Don’t forget to share your prayer requests here. Only people who have been okayed by Committee Members are part of this group; we agree to remember to be considerate on how we post prayer requests for our community, personal friends and family and each other. God bless you all!
Respectfully Submitted,
Summer D Clemenson
Executive Director
