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2020 Committee / Implementation Team 2020 Annual Report

Elmore Alexander, Diana Beaudet, Matt Beaudet, Annemarie Bowen, John Bowen, Kirk Dragsbaek, Kay
Dunlap, John Hudson, Anna Scott Johnson, Carole Marple, Frank Villa; and Peg Robinson, Betsy Rigby,
and Eric Dragsbaek

At this past years’ Annual Meeting on February 2, 2020 (see detailed Minutes of the meeting on the following
pages) Matt Beaudet and Kirk Dragsbaek presented the 2020 Committee’s findings to the congregation. After the
presentation, the congregation voted on the following:
➢ to officially receive the Pilgrim 2020 report.
➢ to affirm and embrace the three cultural shifts as described in the Pilgrim 2020 report, and to agree to focus
our attention on them as a critical foundation for moving forward as a faith community.
➢ to dissolve the 2020 Committee and establish a 2020 Implementation Team to keep our attention focused on
the cultural shifts and to facilitate discussion and planning for the approved 2020 Committee
recommendations as well as new or improved programming initiatives.
➢ to implement the recommendation of immediately initiating an Essential Audit of all our committees
ministries. The audit was begun and the information collected. It is presently being reviewed and
consolidated for further review and recommendation.
➢ for the committee to schedule and host several open discussion sessions on each of the below
recommendations:
o A) beginning the process of becoming an Open & Affirming church;
o B) setting aside $100,000 for the establishment of the Pilgrim Growth Fund;
o C ) establishing a Social Justice group
so that they can bring forward for discussion the feedback and findings from the discussion sessions at a Special
Congregational Meeting to be held on Sunday, March 22, 2020
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The onset of the pandemic six weeks after the above was approved and implemented came to a halt and the special
congregational meeting scheduled for March 22 was cancelled.
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The Implementation Team hopes to continue with the work and recommendations of the 2020 Committee in the near
future and when we can all gather together again.

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