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2007 产业年度报告

汪德胜

产业委员会成员	杜书翠， 杨子涛，李洪江， (周新)， 袁建业，俞旗峰， 张淳，(叶能), 张国才, 汪德胜,(陈伟),伍宁, 江立波
录音同工	张祖天， 张献平， 陈德生，张宏臻, (杜书翠， 汪德胜)
环保同工	李瑞峰, 陈晓青, 黄国雄, 杨国明, 高同际, 袁建业, 王慧聪, 狄 欣, 刘健, 汪德胜

( ) Inactive or former member

Mission Statement: Property Committee members and co-workers are stewards of our Lord Jesus Christ, chosen to operate, to maintain, and to improve church properties including existing building(s), facilities, equipments, and vacant area to their best condition (clean, neat, pleasing, and healthy) to serve the congregation and visitors with an attractive, healthy, and uplifting physical environment through collaborated team effort with clearly defined responsibility.

First, I would like to thank Elder Shu-Tsui for his many years of leadership and constantly building up this capable team, which is the backbone of this ministry!   I am honored and humbled to take the position to serve the Property Ministry together with all of members and co-workers. Second, I would like to thank all the committee members and co-workers for their faithful service and a great team spirit and we are grateful for the support and understanding of our families.  Thirdly, I would like to thank the Pastor and Church Council and all the fellowships for your prayers and support in implementing every property ministry, especially the large-scale property maintenance/cleaning activities. In one way, we are serving on tangible properties of the church, but we are more serving the ONE intangible and HIS people. So, I would like to thank the whole congregation for your Love and support in the Property Ministry. Because that "It is more blessed to give than to receive" (Acts 20:35), I would like to challenge you by Asking what you can do for the church: picking up a used paper cup, dispose the trash properly after meal, cleaning up your dinning area when you leave your seat, propose a good idea for the church, report a damage and or malfunction of the church property …. ? With all your support and contribution, the property ministry can be operated within or below the budget. 2007 was under budget! Praise the Lord!

As other ministry, the property ministry is a ministry of challenge, expectation, excitement, and reward. We were facing old failing roof and operate during new construction. Whether to replace the roof or patching it is an expensive question to answer. We were fighting the roof leakage for many years now. To replace the roof would cost more than $45000. Some HVAC units are quite worn out and need to be replaced. We are facing soaring utility cost. The winter also started with historic snowfall and plowing cost need to be more diligently managed. We have more than 15 acres hilly wooded land to be explored and turned into usable land. In 2007, we had the uphill recreation park finished and successfully hosted the first outdoor worship. We plan to create some hiking trails around the park land. We now have a paved walkway from the overflow parking lot near the restaurant to the paved driveway. We patched the remaining roof with 20-year sealant to experiment cost saving approach. We have been seeing that the new addition starts to take its shape. We are looking forward to seeing these two in our 2008 operation and maintenance task list. The operation and maintenance of the existing building will remain challenge of this ministry. With more than 60% increase of church gross area in 2008, to operate the property in a cost effective way will be another challenge.

Major Activities of 2007

Uphill recreation park creation Paved walkway from overflowing parking lot to main driveway Volleyball court setup; Patching existing roof by ourselves No trespassing sign to improve security Summer cleaning Church winterization Deep carpet shampooing Main entrance door repair Replacing light bulbs Recording of sermons

开辟山上公园 修理 去餐馆的人行道 增加排球场装制 修补屋顶 争设安全路标 夏季大扫除 过冬整修 地毯清洗 修理大门 更换灯管 录音

Year 2008 Preview

2008 will be a year of milestone for the property ministry. As we stated above, with the extra 60% increase in building area, the operation and maintenance will be a challenge to the ministry. We would like to start with a brainstorm in the committee to foresee any new tasks and form a strategic plan to manage them. The committee has a good tradition to delegate tasks between committee members, we will try to keep this tradition and make better use of it to handle the extra tasks. One important, sometime overlooked ministry is the recording. It is a ministry that faithfully keeps the history of Sunday sermons. With the expansion of the church, the work will be more important and need better coordination. We are thinking to form a subcommittee for recording so that this part of ministry can be better handled. The major tasks of 2008 are as follows:

Spring/Summer Cleaning Install the children’s playground Hiking trail creation Roof patching Fall cleaning and/or winterization Church security & Fire Drill after the completion of the new Addition HVAC system maintenance/improvement Ceiling tile repair Interior painting Evaluation of existing contracts for church maintenance and operation Recording of sermons

春夏季大扫除 修建山上儿童健乐园 开辟山上健行道 修补屋顶防水 秋季大扫除/过冬整修 教会防火和安全演习 冷暖系统的维护和改进 现建筑天花板更换 现建筑的已油漆 评估教会对外的服务合同 录音

We are here inviting all handyman brothers (or sisters) to participate the property ministry so that we can handle property operation and maintenance tasks as much as we could for two reasons: as good stewards of our Lord, and providing a good fellowship opportunity for participating brothers and sisters. We know we can not do everything, so make the right decision in time to hire professionals to help out with some difficult jobs will be a very important part of the ministry and we will need lots of prayer for good ministry wisdom from our Lord Jesus Christ and the participation of brothers and sisters.

Some brothers and sister visiting uphill park site with some property committee members

Walkway construction

Laying foundation for the new addition

The hope of the Spring