OBN Council Meeting Agenda - 02-20-2025

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The vision of OBN:, Article 2, Purpose: The purpose of the Oahu Baptist Network is to resource churches, through networking, to achieve the Great Commission and the Great Commandment; to build up the Body of Christ and consequently the Kingdom of God   (Oahu OBN Map)

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AGENDA:  
2025 OBN Council Members:  Bong, Jerrell, Jamie, Charlene, Matt, Annie, Hazel, Steven, John and  Harlan.  

1. Welcome to Pastors, OBN Council Members, and Guests
2. Opening Prayer and Prayer Requests for OBN Pastors, Leaders and  Churches
3. Call To Order
4. Clerk's Report (Charlene)
1. OBN LC Minutes of Meeting from January 16, 2025
5. Treasurer's Report, Financial Report (Jerrell)
   
1. OBN Financial Reports 2024-12 Revised 2025-01-29 (reclassification of an expense from OBI to Youth Camp)
2. Youth Camp 2024 - revised 2025-01-29 (reclassification of an expense from OBI to Youth Camp)
3. OBN Financial Reports, January, 2025
4. Donations From Churches, January, 2025
6. Announcements:
1. HPBC
1. Puukahea Open House, Sat, Feb 22, 9am - 11am
2. 52 Sundays - Share who your church's money supports and the stories behind each dollar given
3. Deaf Camp - Mon, March 17 at Pearl City
4. VBS Training - Sat, March 22, 9am at Mililani Baptist Church
2. YOUTH PROJECT - March 17-21 at First Baptist Church of Wahiawa
3. Theology and Technology with Jonathan Hernandez - Sat, May 17; will be in the island for consultations between May 15-23.   Profile.
7. Old Business
1. Evangelism Recommendation - 
1. Swap Meet Ministry
2. Chris Evans - Seafarers Ministry (June, 2025)
3. Athletic Fund - Sports Ministry 
4. Evangelism Team Minutes 01-24-2025
2. Admin Team  
1. Town Hall Meeting for Const & By Laws 
1. Date / Time:  Fri, May 2, 6pm, Request from Pastor Alvin to finish meeting by 8pm.  
2. Moderator:  Dr. Robert Miller
2. Paid 2022-2023 DLIR, Will file petition;  990 EZ
3. Admin Team Minutes 0 02-03-2025
3. Church Planting & Revitalization - Connections Church
8. New Business
1. Communications - 
1. Theme: can you pray and ask God to impress a theme for OBN to focus on at our 2025 annual meeting? The Comms Team has ideas that include unity (and diversity) and submitting to one another.
2. Comm Team Minutes 02-04-2025
9. Other Ministry Reports and Discussions: 

1. Admin Team
2. OBI (Harlan Nakasone)
1. OBI Director's Report
2. OBI Staff Meeting January 13, 2025
3. OBI Classes (Jan - April 2025): 
1. Kaleb Barrett, CLE 1310 Ministry Leadership and Administration
2. Dr. Tony Woods, CLE 2379 The Upper Room:  Discipleship Preparation 
3. Pastor Harlan Nakasone, CLL 1113 Baptist Heritage and Practice
4. Dr. Alan Tamashiro, CLL 1212 Christian Theology II
5. Dr. Tony Woods CLL 2132 History of the Bible 
6. Pastor Amel Dominguez CLP 1411 Introduction to Preaching
3. HPBC (Robert Miller)
4. Report:  Communications Team: (Annie, Matt, Charlene)
1. Minutes of Meeting January 7, 2025
5. Report: Discipleship (Matt, Harlan, John, Annie):  
1. Baptist Men:  Overnight Retreat, Dec 6,7
2. Next Gen
3. S.H.E, Women's Quarterly, April 5, 3-5pm at Kalihi Baptist Church
4. ABWLS
6. Report: Church Planting & Revitalization (Jamie, Hawn Soo)
7. Report: Missions & Evangelism (Jerrell, Charlene, Hazel, Hawn Soo)
8. Report: Church Assistance (Jerrell, Hazel, John)
1. Ewa Beach Baptist Church request
2. Waipahu Community Christian Church request
3. Guidelines for Church Assistance Team Adopted August, 2024
9. Report: Orientation and Mentorship (Harlan, Matt)
   
1. Lanakila BC - James Leverett, Lanakila Baptist Church, choochoo_james@hotmail.com, 808 781-5586.

Closing Prayer

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Frequently Accessed Files 

OBN Teams (See description below):

• Missions/Evangelism: Jerrell, Charlene, Hazel,
• Church Planting / Revitalization:  Jamie, SungHo
• Church Assistance:  Jerrell, John
• Orientation and Mentorship / New Leadership:  Harlan, Matt
• Discipleship: Annie, Matt, Harlan, John
• Communication:  Annie, Matt, Charlene

NOTES FOR ANNUAL MEETING

2025 Budget

2025 Calendar

OBN Constitution and By-Laws

2019 OBN Restructuring Proposal

2022 Budget Proposal

2022 OBN Churches Masterlist
2023 Joint Letter from Bong and Chris

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OBN  Leadership Teams

​​1.  Missions/Evangelism:  (Jerrell, Charlene, Hazel):  To be involved in local and international missions and evangelism by working with local churches and para-church ministries to launch, develop, facilitate, promote, and provide resources for events, programs, and other activities.

2.  Church planting/revitalization (Jamie, Steven):  To equip churches for church planting and church revitalization and encourage them to cooperate with each other in these endeavors. 

3.  Church assistance (Jerrell, Hazel, John):   To help foster and develop inter-church relationships that lead to meeting each other’s needs

4.  Orientation and mentorship of new ministry leaders / New Leadership (Harlan, Matt):   To facilitate the transition of new ministry leaders or ministry leaders new to Oahu including encouraging and establishing mentorship relationship

5.  Discipleship (Matt, Annie*, Harlan, John):  To help equip churches to disciple in their context.

6.  Communication (Annie, Matt, Charlene):   To communicate with OBN churches in personal and technological ways