The leadership team approved conducting a special vote by email to affirm Doug Yoder as an interim elder while Doug Miller is out of town during the months of January and February 2025.
Joel Weidner sent the email below to the congregation’s sharing list on December 4, 2024
Votes were collected via email and on December 16, 2024 Joel sent out an additional email to the sharing list with the results of the vote where Doug Yoder was affirmed unanimously with 35 votes.
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UMC Community,
One of our elders, Doug Miller, will be out of town for approximately 6-8 weeks early in 2025. Doug and Sue will be serving with Mennonite Mission Network SOOP in Arizona during parts of January, February and March. Because that leaves only 2 elders present during that time, the leadership team would like to recommend to the congregation that Doug Yoder serve as interim elder for the period when Doug Miller is away. Doug Yoder is willing to serve in this role and previously served as elder with his regular term ending this past August.
Because we do not have a congregational meeting scheduled before the Miller’s leave town, we would like to affirm Doug Yoder in this interim elder roll via an email vote.
If you are a member of University Mennonite Church and would like to vote in the matter, please reply back to this email
(only to me please, joelpsu82@outlook.com–not to All) and clearly indicate one of the following responses:
___ I affirm Doug Yoder to serve as an interim elder while Doug Miller is out of town for approximately 6 weeks in January and February of 2025.
___ I do NOT affirm Doug Yoder to serve as an interim elder
___ I abstain from this vote
Please vote in this matter by Friday, December 13, 2024
Joel Weidner
Congregational Chairperson
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