This morning’s Executive Board of the Big Emory Baptist Association meeting discussed the following items:

1- The Clerk, Mark Umbehagen, resigned his post as Clerk and as Team Leader of the Youth Conference Team- having left the Pastorate (for the time being anyway) and assuming a job with US Cellular, he simply won’t have time to participate.

2- Association Churches were urged to participate in Pastor and Staff Appreciation Day the second Sunday in October. As an Association, we too wish to show Mason and his family that we appreciate them and so will be providing him and his wife a weekend away at a nearby resort. This gift will be presented at the Annual Meeting in October.

3- The Treasurer’s report indicates that the Association, long in the red under the leadership of the former DOM, has been in the black for a good while now and is continuing to meet its budgetary obligations. The proposed budget was passed out per the requirement of the Association bylaws in advance of the Annual Meeting.

4- Various Sunday School emphases were announced, including High Attendance Day set for February 3rd, 2008.

5- A brief video regarding disaster relief and its connection to the State Mission Offering was viewed.

6- The meeting adjourned with prayer.

The proposed budget and other articles distributed at the meeting are attached to the bulletin board in the downstairs hallway at the Church, if you wish to see them.