MNO Synod ELW

Here are a couple of activity/program ideas to think about.
1) Have a guest speaker share their travel experience i.e. someone who may have travelled to another country such as India, Australia etc.

2) Organize a Mother's Day Tea or Program

Update
The September ELW e-Messenger announced that significant cuts were made to balance the 2008 budget. One of the areas of cutbacks was made to staff salaries. The assessment of salaries and programming has been done and the following will be the operating procedure for the year.

Beginning in January 2008 the ELW office will be closed every other Friday. The program director will work Monday-Thursday weekly.

The office will also be closed the week of July 21-25. Because Be Not Afraid, the National ELW Convention, takes place this summer the office in effect will be closed for nearly three weeks beginning July 9 when staff will be going to Calgary.

This may result in a delay to the Fall 2008 mailing of the Esprit magazine. No rush orders for resources will done. We will require 3-6 weeks delivery time. Please plan ahead.

There may need to be a reduction of other resources and service, however, staff will assess this as they determine what can be done in the given time allotments.

Increasingly, the website will be the place for ELW related information. The website is currently being redesigned to be a more useful communication tool and the redesign will be launched early in the year. This reduces the need for printing of resources which is costly. Other changes to workloads will be monitored as staff determine what can and cannot be accomplished.

A reassessment of all of the above will be made for 2009.

Other budget decisions, made by the National ELW board include: no major topical resource will be produced in 2008 however money is being reserved for a resource to be produced in 2009 (hopefully); one Board meeting will be paid out of the externally restricted Quadrennial Convention fund and; there is no travel fund for the Board president or staff.

We trust in God to lead us through this time of adaptation and uncertainty.

If you have any questions please feel free to contact Ruth Vince, executive director, at rvince@elcic.ca.

Evangelical Lutheran Women of the ELCIC
Exec Director	Ruth Vince		rvince@elcic.ca
President	Alice Schultz	204.822.8525	schultza@mts.net
Vice President	Donna Goebel		Dgoebel@mts.net
Secretary	Elaine Strate	204.726.1084	elaines@westman.wave.ca
Treasurer	Dianna Fosty	204.268.3456	difosty@mts.net
MNO-ELW Director-At-Large	Nancy Meadows	204.254.4444	kcmeadow@mts.net