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Directory of Church Leadership • 2008

Worship Team

Maggie Martin McCarey, Elder
Jean Grimm, Music
Michael R. Martin, CLS
Cindy Smith, CLS
8:30 Musician: Michael R. Martin
10:00 Musician: Jean Grimm


Lay Leaders

Encourage ministry of lay people and awareness of the larger church

Local Lay Leaders
Bill Kelting
Ross Dailey

Lay Member to Annual Conference
Mitchel Smith

Lay Member Reserve
Michael R. Martin

District Lay Leader
(elected by Troy Annual Conference)
Cindy Smith


Church Council

Overall church program, policy and administration
Meets monthly

Co-chairs:
Charlotte Hall and Art Leavitt
Eileen Leavitt, Secretary

Members:
Committee Chairpersons, Lay Leaders
Lay Member, Elected offices

Members at Large:
Karen Dailey
Marlene Martin
Emily Kelting
Wally Gay
Alan Roberts
Barb Darrah


Worship Committee
Coordinates details and plans for weekly worship services

Committee Chair and Coffee-hour Coordination:
Deborah Donaldson

Members:
Flowers: Betsy Pond and Mary Kent
Communion Steward: Ruth Kern
Usher Recruiter: Ruth Kern
All members of Worship Team

Board of Trustees
Oversees facilities and investments, insurance, receives gifts to the church (financial & tangible)
Meets monthly

Chairperson: Marilyn Gillespie

Members:
Art Leavitt
Marlene Martin
Grant Besio
Betsy Pond
John Wamsganz
Bill Amberman
Craig DuMond
Richard May


Staff-Parish Relations Committee

Personnel committee of the church
Meets monthly as needed

Chair: Shirley Pickreign

Members:
Cindy Besio
John Heverly
Glen Pond
Eileen Leavitt
Eva Stinson
Emily Martin
Renee Clark
Elwin Hall


Children and Youth Team

Cindy Besio
Eileen and Art Leavitt
Kathy Hannon
Marlene Martin
Eugeene Wood
Renee Clark


Outreach and Missions Team

Chair: Grant Besio
Sooky Hanley
Clarence Hanley
Nancy Roberts
Joan Sleinkofer, Ecumenical Council


Discernment Team

Gina DuMond
Elizabeth Corminara
Mary Heverly

Finance Committee
Oversees finances of the church including stewardship education and campaign; Meets as needed

Chair: Mitchel Smith

Members:
Bruce Barnard, treasurer
Shirley Pickreign, financial secretary
Shirley Seney
Clarance Hanley
Stewardship Chair (not filled)

Auditors
Review all church finances annually

Shirley Pickreign
Mitchel Smith

Tellers
Count, record and deposit offering

Donny Gay
Rose Nadon
Lucille Wilson
Betty Myatt
Mary Kent
Lenore Leavitt


Fundraising Team

Mitchel and Cindy Smith
Deborah Donaldson
Cathy LeBlanc
Betsy Pond
Sooky Hanley
Charlotte Hall
Marlene Martin
Diane Kelting


Projects Consultants

Craig DuMond
Elwin Hall


Parsonage
Committee
Chair: Charlotte Hall
Betsy Pond
Diane Kelting
Cindy Besio
Maggie McCarey

Historians - Cindy Smith and Louise Harris

Librarian - Joan Sleinkofer

Newsletter Editor - Deborah Donaldson

Membership Secy. - Donny Gay

UMW President - Cathy LeBlanc

Office Staff - Claudia Wamsganz, Maggie McCarey

 

 

First United Methodist Church of Saranac Lake, New York • http://firstumcsl.org
63 Church Street, Saranac Lake, NY 12983
Pastor Maggie McCarey
Ross Dailey & Bill Kelting, Lay Leaders
Church Office: (518) 891-3473
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