Quarterly Council Update

Over the past two years, the congregational council has made a conscious effort to be more accountable to you, the members of Holy Cross Lutheran Church. To start, we identified the many committees that comprise our church body. It was our goal to identify/review the mission of each committee and encourage monthly reports about the contributions these committees have offered to our community and Holy Cross Church. We organized several fellowship events in an attempt to introduce council members to fellow members, which offered the opportunity to get to know each other. We developed a property maintenance report log and required all council members to review our constitution on a yearly basis to ensure that our actions were consistent with the synod guidelines. In doing so, we made some difficult requests for change. Unfortunately, in today’s society, we must make every effort to protect ourselves and the members we serve. We reinstated the constitutional guidelines for counting the offering, we require all volunteers who serve our youth to have a background check, and we now require detailed receipts for expenses that are to be reimbursed. We also created a blog to inform our fellow members about church activities and important events and to share information on youth activities.

Council welcomes your prayers, thoughts and suggestions. We encourage you to visit and use the blog at holycrossmoorestown.blogspot.com. This can serve as a means of communicating and a way of getting more members, like you, involved with fulfilling the mission of Holy Cross Lutheran Church.

The Mission of Holy Cross Evangelical Lutheran Church is to respond to the Love of God shown most fully to us in the great gift of his Son Jesus Christ. We engage in five ministry areas - Worship, Witness, Learning, Service, and Support - to boldly confess Christ as our Lord and Savior.