Session Meeting
Highlights

News and Information:

• Communion will be served on the usual “first Sunday of the month”: March 1.

• Music Director and Organist Dr. Eiki Isomura was hired.

• The Philadelphia Presbytery has elected Jonathan to serve as a commissioner to the 2026 PCUSA General Assembly for two weeks next summer. The first week will include intensive Zoom sessions; a second week will meet in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

• Our Deacons are taking over some of the tasks formerly carried out by the old Membership Committee.

• Initial roof work was completed toward the end of 2025. The cost of this ($19,600) will be paid on an installment plan over six months. More work will be scheduled this year.

• Upcoming (and recently completed) activities: a Crisp ChicK'n fundraiser on December 7, and our Annual Christmas luncheon on December 21. Re-opening of the RePurpose Shop, with monthly Saturday sale until regular hours are restored, next on March 28. Presby Players are doing a dinner theatre production of “Crab Cakes and Murder” on June 13 and 14.

• The Good Order Team developed and deployed a Congregational Survey to better understand our congregation's wants and needs.

• The Good News Team has made great progress in laying out procedures in the event ICE visits our church. One part of this approach includes the “Private Property” signs that you may see in some places in the church and education building. See Kelly if you have questions.

• The Good Stewards Team has generated a “Narrative Budget” which shows the benefits of those expenses included in our 2026 budget. Instead of saying “we spend $x,xxx on electricity”, the narrative budget shows what part of the electricity, salaries, and all other church expenses actually lead to our ability to provide Mission or Worship or ... activities.

• In line with our transition to a Good Teams organization, the Matthew 25 Task Force has been reconfigured to include one member from each Team. This group of four continues to advise and support all of the Teams in Matthew 25 efforts.

Our next Session meeting will be held on March 10.