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On November 8 and 9 the General Board and the General Council met in Morden at the Gospel Mission Church for our Fall Bi-annual meeting. This was our first set of GB & GC meetings with Henry Redekopp in his position as Executive Director. Working with him in this role was a real pleasure and seeing how he has picked up the duties and responsibilities so quickly. What is even more encouraging is the visionary thinking that Henry has. This will be more and more evident as time goes on.
As with all our meetings, there is always some business that is the same each time. Every time we meet, we hear staff and financial reports. Did you know we have an amazing staff? God continues to be at work through them in both the mundane things like accounting and admin and in the exciting vision casting and support they give to our pastors, missionaries, and churches. The current financial report leads us to believe God will provide enough funds for this fiscal year. Thank you for giving to our shared conference work. We also reviewed and passed the proposed budget for 2025/26.
Other business included:
Adding a new section to our By-laws to allow for internal divisions and updating the section in our By-laws re Antioch Community Ministries (Warman SK), making it an internal division of the EMMC. This will allow them to take full control of their finances and not have to run everything through our office.
Adopting a new policy on external partnerships. This policy will allow us to quickly evaluate our relationships with various agencies and ministries to determine our participation level in them.
Approve in principle the idea of requiring all GC members to sign a lifestyle agreement. A lifestyle agreement suitable for them will now be drafted.
Approval to hire a new, part-time person for next-gen ministry.
Steinbach Bible College Board update (see further information regarding SBC’s HERE)
Business is important; however, the conference exists not for business, but for people and ministry. We met our new rep from Hague Gospel Church, Matt Braun. Their former rep, Steve Miller will continue as the rep for Antioch Community Ministries. We also got to hear Ernie Buhler’s (Bergfeld Mennonite Church, Manitoba) faith story and hear a Gospel Mission Church Morden update from Pastor Brad Driedger and their GC member Richard Klassen.
A big thanks to the GMC Morden church for hosting us. The spaces you provided were what we needed, and the welcome was top-notch. Thank you so much! Our next General Board and General Council meetings are in Spanish Lookout, Belize in March. See you then!
EMMC Staff:
Henry Redekopp, Executive Director
Kelly Lesser, Pastor of Care & Mission
Lil Goertzen, Communications Coordinator
Joyce Harnett, Bookkeeper (part-time)
Darrell Kehler, Director of Discipleship (part-time)
Anika Dueck, Admin Assistant (part-time)
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