Our leader, Jackie, brought the meeting to order.

Ruth led the devotional.

The minutes of last meeting were approved as read.

Fern gave the treasurer’s report:

At present we have $537.14 in the women’s group treasury.

Sunshine Cards to Sally Mitchell and Carolyn McCall were signed by the attending women and will be sent.

Old and continuing Business:

Officers: Fern will be treasurer this year. It was decided that the position of Recording Secretary will be revolving this year. Del volunteered for today’s meeting.

Assigned Projects: Jackie will be Potluck Coordinator

Paula will be Kitchen Supplies Coordinator. (Mary Ellen will write an article for the newsletter about the list of needs for the kitchen and its position in the broom closet.)

Events: Giving Tree: Brenda and Diane will start on November 22nd requesting gifts for a family identified by Friends Outside. The gifts will be due on December 6. They can be delivered to the church anytime before then.

Christmas Pot Luck: It will be held the third Sunday in December. Linda, Nancy Jo, and Del will do the decorations and set-up. Fern, Paula, and Jennifer will organize the clean-up afterward. A Main Dish and side dish sign-up sheet was circulated. Jackie will send out a reminder to everyone the week before.

Gift Boutique: The women’s group will sell Jams/Jellies/Candies/Craft Projects etc. after Sunday service on Dec. 6th and 13th.

Spaghetti Dinner: This will be held on January 22, 2010. Linda will take the lead. Del will recruit entertainment. Nancy Jo and Jan will make sauces. Nancy Jo and Del will cook spaghetti. Mary Skillicorn will make salads. Jackie, Fern, and Mary Ellen will make desserts.

Women’s Retreat: Mary Ellen will ask Yael if she would be interested in leading the retreat. The group suggested February 20th as a possible date. Mary Ellen will give us an update at the next meeting.

Activities/Classes:

Nancy Jo reported that the felting class would be too expensive to consider this year. Other suggestions for classes were: Book discussion, Field trip, opera/music night, light rail trip to Mountain View for Chinese lunch, and hike. We will discuss this again in January.

Carol and Paula will check into Chinese Restaurants close to the light rail in Mountain View. April 22, 2010 was set as a tentative date for a light rail excursion to a Chinese restaurant.

Jackie will ask Pippa if she would be interested in leading a garden tour.

It was suggested that we have a book discussion. Anne Lamotte’s “Traveling Mercies��? was suggested. The group decide that we should each bring a book that we might use for discussion to the January meeting and we will decide then whether to do this.

Volunteer Opportunity -- Jackie suggested that we might do a volunteer project since we seemed to be short on money making opportunities. Ruth said that the greatest need was during the holiday season and Valley Churches United had a need for cookies. Fern said that Second Harvest Food Bank also needed people to help during the holidays. Jackie will get information and send it to everyone. We will need to do make this decision informally after receiving the information since our next meeting is after the holidays.

Fern volunteered to host the next meeting, January 5, 2010, 10:30 AM. Nancy Jo will be taking pictures of the women’s group. It was decided we would all wear Purple. Jackie will do the devotional. Jackie and Linda will bring refreshments.

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