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Annual Meeting Minutes
Old BusinessBaton Rouge Conference Approximately 200 people attended the conference, with the talks now available on CD from First Presbyterian. Hopefully additional conferences of this nature can be organized in the future. TFTTF Website Online Journal Material for the online journal will be solicited from interested contributors and papers presented at our annual meetings will also be considered for publication. Treasurer’s Report Over the past five years we have incurred about $450 of expenses for room reservation, AAR/SBL announcements and web-hosting. Our web-hosting fee increased to $4.00 a month to accommodate our larger site. None of those expenses have been reimbursed to members who covered the cost. Most of that amount will be reimbursed after the first of the year. If the total expenses were reimbursed we would be running a $100 deficit. Next year's expenses are estimated to be about $175. So we'd need an additional $275 for this coming year with no increases. We now have a no-fee bank account, Charter One, in Woodridge, Illinois. Gifts were given in total of $350 in the past 12 months. We can now receive non-tax deductible gifts. We encourage members to contribute to our expenses, gifts of $5 and up would be appreciated. They should be made out to the Thomas F. Torrance Theological Fellowship and sent to Gary D or the Treasurer for 2007. We discussed the ramifications of charging a small annual membership fee of $10.00 per year. This would be an attractive option if online payments could be made via PayPal. This will be pursued. However, until that is in place we spontaneously decided to take up an on the spot collection and brought in about $171.00 towards the 2007 budget. Thanks to all who contributed. Membership Status At present the Fellowship has over 90 members registered from around the world. Many of these registrations took place online via the website. If you have not updated your contact details lately this can also be done via the website. New Busniess Hosting of TFT’s Out-of-Print Publications, Sermons and Talks Perhaps the website could provide a catalog of links to direct interested visitors to sites where Torrance materials could be found/secured. Some notification on the site of recent books published in areas of interest to Torrance scholars might also be helpful. Kerry Dearborn noted that she had cassette tapes of the courses James taught at Fuller. Could they be legally digitized and posted? In addition, some lectures have recently been posted online at Ben Myers blogspot (www.faith-theology.blogspot.com). Finally, Regent College has CD’s of some of Tom’s, James’ and Alan’s lectures that might be obtainable online. If Fellowship members hear of any new developments regarding the publishing work of the Torrance’s do pass that information on and we will try to get it posted online for everyone’s benefit. Executive Committee Leadership Elections A motion was also placed by Joel Scandrett, as proxy for Elmer Colyer, that the term of presidency be extended one year for Gary Deddo, to serve through November, 2007. This was seconded and passed by vote of the membership. Future Meetings/Miscellany
Meeting adjourned at 1:55 in time for the presentation to be given by our speaker, Victor Shepherd. Submitted by Eric Flett (Secretary) Archived Meeting Minutes and Information |
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