Present: Betty Angelini, Chair; Lisa Allgood, Amy Duiker, Jackie Humphries, Skip Jackson, Georgia McCall Excused; Chip Hardwick, Fran Lane Lawrence, Brady Radford

Lisa opened the meeting with prayer.

Minutes from April and May 21 were approved. Educational Scholarships:

• Amount available to award is $37,000
• Team working on this portion of charge is:
  • Lisa, faciliatator
  • Skip
  • Georgia
• At the recommendation of the review team, the group voted unanimously to award 54 scholarships for a total of $37,000 in the following breakdown:
  • 6 Associate Degree awards @ $500/award
  • 40 Bachelor Degree awards @$650/award
  • 8 Seminary Master awards @ $1,000/award
• Betty and Lisa will work with Chip and Heather about technology issues:
  • Georgia not being able to review all grants
  • Uploading difficulties by applicants
• Skip suggested PR release to accompany checks-Chip and Betty will work on this
• Group will report in fall about suggestions for next cycle

Church Grants-$50,000 to award

• Team
  • Betty, facilitator
  • Amy
  • Fran
  • Jackie
• Application will be posted by August 1, 2021
  • Sub group has meeting scheduled to revise and present to full group in July
• Grant writing seminar-action pending

Church Grants 2020

Betty reported that all recipients had received report form. Waiting from Synod office to receive link to compiled reports. More details at next meeting.

Betty closed the meeting in prayer.

Our next meeting is 21 July, 2021, at 10AM.

• Opening prayer-Skip
• Closing prayer-Amy

Joyfully submitted, Betty

Synod Mission Statement

We, the Synod of the Covenant, in partnership with our presbyteries, congregations, the General Assembly and other faith communions, are called and sent by God to be a living, active and inclusive witness to the love of Christ.

Matthew 25 embrace these areas of focus:

• Building congregational vitality by challenging people and congregations to deepen their faith and get actively and joyfully engaged with their community and the
• Dismantling structural racism by advocating and acting to break down the systems, practices and thinking that underlie discrimination, bias, prejudice and oppression of people of
• Eradicating systemic poverty by working to change laws, policies, plans and structures in our society that perpetuate economic exploitation of people who are poor.