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The SCPC Way 2

Board of Elders 4

Church Staff 5

Executive Report: Steve Schibsted & Candie Blankman 6

Caring Ministries 8

Deacon Report 11

Family Ministries 12

Discipleship 13

Mission Ministries 14

Hispanic Ministries 15

Worship Ministries 16

SCPC Preschool 17

Financial Report-Executive Summary 18

General Fund Report 19

Building Fund Report 20

Membership & Baptisms 21

Attendance 22

In Our Father’s House 23

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*Team Chair/Lead

Name Committees Class

Connie Crichton* Mission Participation 2015

Bret Daniels Family Ministry 2017

Mike Duerksen Ministry Report 2016

Mark Enmeier Discipleship, Engagement & Caring 2016

Steven Ernest* Ministry Support 2015

Abel Haro Discipleship, Engagement & Caring 2017

Libby Hawkes Family Ministry 2015

Tracy Knox Family Ministry 2016

Dana Leonard-Cialdella* Family Ministry 2017

Pat Marvin* Discipleship, Engagement & Caring 2016

Denise Nesper Discipleship, Engagement & Caring 2015

Jim Purser Missional Participation 2016

Edward Smith Ministry Support 2017

Larry Thomas* Worship 2015

Dick Veale Worship 2017

2014-2015 Ruling Elder Roster

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Candie Blankman

Interim Pastor & Head of Staff

Associate Pastor of Discipleship

Crystal Bonilla

Preschool Assistant Director

Juan Bonilla

Director of Hispanic Ministry

Saul Bonilla

Facilities

Charlie Campbell

Associate Pastor of Worship

Diana Castruita

Director of Family Ministry for

Spiritual Experiences

Laura Clark

Communications Director

Jill Dupree

Childcare/Nursery Head

Sheryl France-Moran

Director of Missional Participation

Sally Henry

Receptionist and Administrative

Assistant to Family Ministry

Janet Goode

Worship and Communications

Administrative Assistant

Heather Brandriff

Director of Family Ministry Invita-

tion to Leadership Investment

Kelly Perry

Event Coordinator and

Assistant to Hispanic Ministry and

Discipleship

Becky Knip

Assistant to Senior Pastor and

Business Manager

Brieann Knutson

Director of Worship

Jon Knutson

Director of Technical Production

Bob Miller

Senior Facilities

Sarah Norris

Director of Choral Music

Julio Perez

Facilities

Ryan Romberg Director of Family Ministry

Education and Formation

Steve Schibsted

Senior Pastor and Head of Staff

Peter Sedlewicz

Business Manager

Julie Snyder

Director of Preschool

Lynda Thomas

Director of Worship

Production

John Zechiel

Worship Accompanist

Church staff 2014—2015

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EXECUTIVE REPORT by

Candie Blankman

We believe that July 2014-June 2015, SCPC’s

fiscal year, is one that will prove to be a year

when the Lord began doing a new thing. The

majority of this year was spent with myself

serving as interim pastor while the Pastor

Nominating Committee continued their search

for a new pastor. We believe that the discerning

work they did brought a pastor for SCPC that is

an evidence of a new work of the Spirit among

us. Move evidence of a fresh moving of the Spirit

among us was the work the Session did in their

study of desiring and discerning God’s will

together. Ask any one of the elders who

participated in this study and you will hear a

story of transformation.

It was a very challenging year financially. But this,

too, proved to be evidence of God’s work in and

through us. Lay leadership and the staff rose to

the occasion and ministry and mission continued

to not only be maintained, but to flourish despite

deep cuts in our budget. With the steady and

spiritually grounded guidance of Sheryl France-

Moran, our Director of Missional Participation

even new ministries sprang up. In human

trafficking through Hagar’s Hope and with

migrant workers through Campo Esperanza WE

are being transformed. This can only happen

when the Lord is in it.

The new leadership of Julie Snyder for the

preschool is more evidence of something new

stirring. More volunteer engagement and more

focus on connecting preschool families to our

wider ministry is already reaping encouraging

signs for our future. And the all volunteer teams

for our caring ministry did amazing work. Stories

abound of individuals and families whose lives

have been deeply touched by their work. The

engagement ministry of our deacons under the

leadership of Casey Comeau, who passed the

baton to Dave Robinson and Jon Moran is

making significant impact with our new members

and our multicultural and multigenerational

congregation. Something new is stirring for sure!

No report can adequately communicate the

faithfulness and dedication of all the staff during

this time. Only God at work in and through

people can create such peace and joy in a

working environment when everything is shifting

and changing. It was a pleasure to lead with

them.

Steve Schibsted

Senior Pastor & Head of Staff and

Pastor Candie Blankman, Interim Pastor 8/2014—5/2015

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Through educational forums and many small group

discussions and individual conversations we learned

a great deal about ourselves and what it means to be

Presbyterian. Sadly, as a result we also lost many

dearly loved friends through this time. But we

entrust them to the Lord’s care and to whatever

new the Lord might be doing in their lives as well.

What is happening through Groundings, as well, can

only be attributed to the Lord doing something new.

Again, ask those who have been through the

experience and they will tell you. Their faith has

been deepened and their eyes have been opened to

what God is doing—something new. Those who are

leading these experiences are helping to lay the

foundation for a very spiritually focused future

through a culture of discipleship with a heightened

awareness of God’s presence and power at work in

and through us.

Steve, take it away!

EXECUTIVE REPORT by

Steve Schibsted

It’s hard to believe, but it’s been nearly 6 months

since I arrived in San Clemente, having started my

new call at just the tail end of the 2014-15 fiscal

year. Although it’s been a somewhat rocky start,

I echo what Candie has written above and believe

wholeheartedly that God is indeed doing a new

thing. Death always comes before resurrection.

In some ways, we have experienced the death of

some old things this past year. Although it has

been painful, we are now beginning to see signs of

new life everywhere in the life of the church. It’s

time to move on from the old and lean into the

new. My hope and prayer is that we can now

focus our attention on the important work God is

calling us to do in our church, community and

world. Even more importantly, I hope we can

experience his grace and joy as we fulfill the

mission he has given us.

I am confident that God has good things in store

for us in the years ahead. The God who has been

faithful to us in the past will be faithful in the years

to come. I am excited to see what’s ahead!

“See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do

you not perceive it?”

-Isaiah 43:19

With gratitude in being your pastor,

Steve

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The Care Ministries encompass the following, along

with their leaders/coordinators:

The Ones (Jean Cammack); Stephen’s Ministry

(Sharon Davidson and Marsha Easterday); Meals

Delivery, (Cyndi Martin); Shut-Ins

Communication, (Cyndi Martin); Super Seniors

Advocate/Card Writers, (Cyndi Martin); Prayer

Quilts, (Carolyn Pierce and Pat McNeil);

Grandmother’s Prayer Group, (Sharon Rice);

Cancer Support Group, (Katie and Dave

Robinson); Visitation, (Kelly King), Memorial

Team, (Helen Bluett and Diane Olsen); Prayer

Chain, (Kelly Perry); Home Communion, (Mary

Ann Whittier); Two Women’s Circle Groups,

(Virginia Simmons and Dorothy Johnson).

This is the first year these ministries have had a

dedicated elder. Every three months the elder has

connected with each ministry leader to understand

what God is doing, to ask for prayer needs and how

the church leadership can support them.

THE ONES, for ladies over 60 years of age, meet

twice a month and have 12-14 regular attendees. The

format of one meeting is to have snacks and coffee,

interview a person of interest and follow up with the

business at hand. The other meeting is held at a

restaurant for lunch and fellowship.

STEPHEN’S MINISTRY, made up of 17

caregivers, meets twice a month. One meeting is

for the leaders and focuses on the leadership retreat

and general planning. The other meeting is for all the

caregivers. It is in this meeting that everyone checks

in about their care receivers, the relationship, issues

they encounter and how everyone is doing. It is a

time of team building and prayer. Each caregiver

meets once a week for one hour with their care

receivers. Every Sunday at each service a Stephen

Minister is available in the crying room to pray for

people.

A special service, called Hope for the Holidays, is

held in December in the chapel and is for people

who have difficulty during he holidays. This group

read “Tattoos on the Heart” as part of their

continuing education. A training class is planned for

January 2016.

MEALS DELIVERY is made up of 105 volunteers,

however 15 are usually the ones delivering a meal.

The “Take Them A Meal” website is used by both

the volunteers and the family needing the meal to

organize the sign up and delivery of the meals.

Volunteers pay for the meals and provide

transportation, so there is no cost to SCPC. Two

weeks of meals are provided and generally restricted

to the San Clemente, Dana Point and San Juan

Capistrano areas. This team provides meals to

families who have experienced loss, illness, pregnancy

or any other crisis. To date 6 families have received

meals

SHUT INS is a ministry where advocates visit at

least once a month people who are unable to get out

of their home. If the advocates cannot make a visit,

they are asked to send a card, a note of

encouragement or make a phone call. Each advocate

arranges their schedule and visit activity. The

coordinator in this ministry updates the list of

shut-ins and coordinates changes through the church

office. There is no cost for this ministry.

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SUPER SENIORS ADVOCATE/CARD

WRITERS is a ministry whereby postcards are

mailed to a list of people in need of encouragement

and communication. At present there are 26 faithful

card writers and 29 card recipients. The postcards

that are mailed out are photographs of the quilts

our quilting ministry has made. These postcards are

printed by the church and kept in the Welcome

Cart for the card writers to pick up on Sundays. All

card writers provide their own stamps at present.

The leader of this ministry sends out a reminder

message to the card writers to send the cards to

two different people on the list each time. All our

card writers are computer literate and receive the

updated list of recipients on their computer.

CANCER SUPPORT GROUP meets on the 2nd

Monday of the month in the library with 8-14

people attending, most of whom are from our

church. The agenda includes prayer, status of

current cancer research and information, projects

that the group is working on, health status check for

the attendees, their need for support and help,

discussion of issues going on in the church, the need

for help and more prayer. They share experiences,

commonalities, feelings of helplessness, difficulties

with doctors, insurance, side effects of treatment

and information needed. Right now the group is

60% survivors and 40% caregivers. This group has

been around for 8 years and had over 51 unique

individuals in attendance. This group is also actively

involved in the Relay for Life cancer fundraiser

event every July.

VISITATION TEAM, made up of a combination

of 11 pastors and lay members, make visits to

hospitals during a crisis or near death. The church

office notifies the lead pastor of the need and asks if

there has already been a visit. If not, an email is

sent to the visitation team of the need. Team

members are to log onto CCB and report the needs

and progress of the situation so all are updated.

MEMORIAL TEAM consists of 6 members and

serve families in need of a memorial service. The

leaders are given the information and proceed to

contact the family to go over all details of the

memorial service. They also determine if they want

a reception and all the details that accompany that,

along with what other support will be needed to

hold the memorial. There is a fees sheet given to

each family. Non-members pay for the facility,

custodian, staff, sound and lighting and members do

not. The church provides the lemonade, coffee, tea

paper/plastic cups and condiments for the coffee

and tea. The pastors are Dee Hazen, Carolyn

McOwen, Candie Blankman, Ron Eckert and

Garrett Erickson.

PRAYER CHAIN is a ministry coordinated and

carried out by Kelly Perry in the office of SCPC.

Prayer requests come in from all over and are

emailed or called in to the church. Kelly monitors

these prayer requests over the weekend so no one

slips through the cracks. The prayer requests are

then sent out via email to all our prayer warriors.

The challenge is people want to give lots of details

that cannot be forwarded on due to privacy issues.

This ministry needs a lay minister to take this over

who has a heart for prayer, one who is not

interested in gossip and who can keep

confidentiality and discern how much to put in the

emails.

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HOME COMMUNION focuses on taking

Holy Communion to shut-ins on at least a

quarterly basis. This is designed as a Worship

Service where they visit, pray, read scripture,

discuss it, and then administer communion by

intinction. The usual words of institution are

used and a prayer of confession added.

Communion is always offered to the shut-ins

and the family or friends present. There is a

need for ordained and trained elders and

deacons to administer communion. The service

is then closed in prayer. To help the shut-ins

feel more connected, they try to discuss what is

going on at church. The leader then provides a

report to the church, outlining any physical or

mental health changes, along with their needs,

what is happening with their care and their

caregivers. This is included in the clerk of

session’s report.

CIRCLE GROUPS are two groups that

originally came from the Presbyterian Women’s

Group and span 25 years of friendship and

association. One meets in the library once a

month and the other in a home. Each group

averages 10-12 women, though dwindling due to

age. Both are currently studying “Stories

Behind the Hymns That Inspire.” The meeting

agenda is refreshments, fellowship, study,

personal stories of faith and singing from the

book.

PRAYER QUILT Ministry meets on the 1st

and 3rd Saturdays at Carolyn Pierce’s house

where quilts, each a work of art, are made for

our church congregation and community friends

who are recovering from illness, loss or injury.

Carolyn stores the donated fabric in her home.

The batting is purchased from the prayer quilt

budget and is the only expense incurred. Eight

women give their time on these mornings to

sew the requested quilts. Each quilt can take up

to 25 hours to make and assemble. 450 plus

quilts have been made since 2002. Carolyn and

Pat provide an opportunity for the members of

the church to tie knots and say a prayer for the

person receiving the quilt every Sunday.

GRANDMOTHER’S PRAYER GROUP

meets in the library on the 2nd Thursday of the

month. This group started 10 years ago in

Sharon’s living room and now they are down to

four members due to health issues and death.

They are actively seeking new younger

grandmothers to join. When they meet, they

discuss their individual families, the problems at

hand and then pray out loud for each other.

Denise Nesper

Elder, Caring Ministries

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Fifteen members served as deacons this past

year. Tasks accomplished in 2014/2015 are as

follows:

The “Plugged-In-Card” and the

“Welcome Lounge” The goal of the

Welcome Lounge is to provide a place for

visitors and members to engage with one

another. Along with welcoming visitors on the

patio on Sunday mornings Deacons routinely

follow-up on all plugged in cards that are turned

with a friendly phone call or e-mail to connect

with those who are looking to get plugged in.

Often folks are looking to join a small group or

get involved in a ministry, so we inform them of

opportunities and get them connected to the

right people.

New Member Brunch– Deacons continue to

assist with each new membership class. We

hosted a class this past May. Each table is hosted

by a Deacon and an Elder to help facilitate

conversation that follows with the presentation.

Those in attendance complete a profile that

allows the Deacons to get to know them and

how they might get plugged into the SCPC

community. After the brunch weekend

mentoring and follow-up is the continued goal,

so that new members are feeling welcomed and

connected to the community.

Greeting - Deacons served as greeters on

several occasions for two weeks periods of time

during the past year at the Sunday morning

worship services.

Cookie Ministry- After some transition, the

Deacons have taken over the coordination of

the Café Clemente Cookie Table. While we

have a great team of host, who prep the cookie

table each Sunday we had a seen a drop in

cookie donations. The Deacons coordinated a

schedule for our small groups and some large

groups to bring cookies on an assigned Sunday.

The schedule is working well and we welcome

others to bring cookies donations as well.

Photo Directory- This past spring the

Deacons took on the task of coordinating a new

photo directory. It has been over 5 years since

our last directory and the deacons were excited

to take it on as it’s a great tool for getting to

know our members. This project was led by

Sally Henry and Dave Robinson. We

coordinated volunteers to greet families as they

arrived for their appointment. We also

uploaded all photos that were taken on to CCB

to keep our digital directory up to date.

Casey Comeau

Deacon Moderator

Board of Deacons:

Casey Comeau

Thomas Dollar

Stacey Enmeier

Linda Fry

Jan Galati

Sally Henry

John Kavlich

Jon Moran

Dave Robinson

Brian and Janet Shannon

Derek and Corby Williams

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Family Ministry at SCPC saw an intense focusing

of values and a dramatic shift in staffing strategy in

2014-2015. Our vision focus intensified on

building for our graduates a foundation of

Conviction, Community, and Character. We do

that by 1) equipping and supporting parents to live

their faith, 2) connecting kids with mature, adult

Christians, as well as 3) connecting them to the

worshiping community, so that they can 4) work

through their doubts well, 5) experience God in an

abundance of ways, to ultimately 6) make their

faith a priority in all of their decisions in life.

Our staff, greatly diminished from years past,

found creative ways to accomplish this by focusing

on particular values of the church rather than on

particular age groups. As a team we tackled family

ministry together. The team is made up of Family

Ministry Director for Education and Formation,

Ryan Romberg, Family Ministry Director for

Spiritual Experiences, Diana Castruita, Family

Ministry Director for Invitation to Leadership

Investment, Heather Brandriff, and Family Ministry

Administrative Assistant, Sally Henry. Joining

these as always is our Nursery Director, Jill

Dupree.

One of the main ways we pursue our vision is

through milestones. Milestones are special

programs centered around specific developmental

faith markers. They always include parents and

families, and they always finish with a take-home

“milestone”.

This year our list of milestones included- 4 year

old, 2nd/5th Bible Sunday, Kindergarten Prayer

Milestone, 1st grade Communion (the milestone

was a communion chalice), 6th grade Squad 51 (the

milestone are people who pray and support our

kids through school!), 7th/8th Pura Vida (the

milestone is a letter of praise and promise from

their parents), 9th grade ID (the milestone is the

results from the StrengthsFinders test), High

School Deep Justice (the milestone is a mission

trip), 12th grade Senior Blessing Sunday. Each of

these milestones was well attended. And each was

impactful to the participants in their own

ways. The milestone tradition of our church is

very strong. We still are attending to each one to

strengthen and develop it, as well as add some

new milestones for future years.

On Sundays we’ve seen a waning in our

elementary Sunday School program. This decline

has come since we cut an official Sunday School

Director some years ago. Still, our teachers are

very strong and they desperately love to teach our

kids the sacred truths of Scripture. Middle Sunday

School averages around 12 very faithful

participants. They work through the Scripture for

the morning’s sermon in words they can really

understand so that they can learn to study

Scripture for themselves. High School

experimented with a brand new series called Echo

The Story and utilized supervised student teachers

- Ali Bolsinger, Caleb Henry, and Brooke

Frolich- to teach their peers God’s grand

narrative.

Finally, we’ve seen a growth in student led, adult

directed worship in song. Led mainly by Natalie

Dupree, this group has led worship for both

Middle School and High School for the

year. We’ve seen people come a long way and

develop not only their musical craft but also their

sense of worship leadership.

Ryan Romberg-

Director of Family Ministry for Education and

Formation

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A new command I give to you: Love one

another. As I have loved you, so you must love

one another. By this all men will know that you

are my disciples, if you have love for one

another.” John 13:34-35 (NIV)

The mission of the Discipleship Committee

continues to be getting our congregation

Plugged In to a deeper relationship with our

Lord and the life of our church. This is being

accomplished through a variety of programs

including bible studies, adult discipleship classes,

small groups and the Groundings Experience.

One of our goals is to transform SCPC from a

church with small groups to a church of small

groups. We held several events throughout the

year to encourage connectedness between

groups, to get more members involved in small

groups and present the opportunity for leaders

to share and learn from each other. Several new

groups were formed, and we are working with

the Deacons to ensure every person who

expresses interest is connected to a group.

Our second Groundings Experience was

offered in the fall of 2014. The purpose is to

help us live out the teachings of Jesus in our

everyday lives and is the centerpiece of our

Discipleship curriculum at SCPC. A

comprehensive teaching guide was developed by

Rev. Candie Blankman, Associate Pastor of

Discipleship which will be used in all future

Groundings courses beginning with the fall, 2015

session.

One of our “graduates” expressed the

following about her experience:

“One of the greatest things Groundings did for

me is it really taught me the value of

LISTENING. We are so quick to give “our

story”, where God worked in our lives,

without even listening to the real needs or

thoughts of others. Groundings helped me to

become aware of how God is working in

ordinary lives, ordinary days and in ordinary

people. We need not look very far, for He is

absolutely present and here working.”

The 2014-2015 church year saw the beginning

of Adult Discipleship classes. These are several

weeks in length, taught by staff or SCPC

members and devoted to delving deeper into

scripture. We are excited to offer a full schedule

throughout the coming year giving our church

community several opportunities to grow in the

Word.

The Discipleship Committee is excited for

the future of the ministry. There is great energy

in our congregation and an expressed desire to

be more connected. Getting more and more

people plugged in is one of the cornerstones of a

vibrant, healthy and growing church. Come! See!

Join!

Pat Marvin

Elder, Discipleship

SCPC ADULT DISCIPLESHIP

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The mission ministries had another fruitful year in

serving our Lord’s kingdom locally and globally. This

year brought unique opportunities and challenges for

the missions committee as we prayed, planned,

implemented programs, supported new mission calls

and let go of some of our long term mission partners.

Listed below are some key highlights that reflect God’s

goodness and grace locally and globally.

We started new ministries this year:

Campo Esperanza is a partnership with a church in

Ensenada ministering to migrant farmers and their

families.

Hagar’s Hope was started to raise awareness and

fight human trafficking.

Mentors 4 Tyrannus Halls was started to match our

members with international college students.

We continued to give and serve:

Advent Conspiracy and Giving Tree – 178 gifts to

nearly 75 ministries totaling $58,370 along with 350

people serving over 3,500 hours.

Baja Ministry: Roofing Project, House Build and

New Year’s Party

Chrysalis Ministries hosted their Institute and

meetings

FAM Food Drives 1st Sunday of every Month, FAM

Hunger Walk

Love San Clemente

Marine Ministry: Prayer Partners, Christmas Dinner

served to 1,000 1CEB Marines, Marine Baby Shower

for 25 1CEB families, 1CEB Jane Wayne Day,

Summer Picnic, Provided Welcomed Home Gift

Bags for 1CEB Marines

Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes

Pregnancy Resource Center Walk for Life

Rancho Sordo Mudo: three Food Drives, sent

Allie Torres and Noemy Bonilla to serve as a

dorm parents, Thanksgiving and May Weekend

Trips

Terrific Tuesday Tutoring at San Onofre School

Welcome INN Feeding the Hungry 4th and 5th

Tuesdays of the Month

Worship at the State Park during the

summer

Y-Malawi: 8-member Service Team July 2014

We prayed and learned:

Prayer Gathering 1st Sunday of the Month

Visits from Mission Partners

o Noemy Bonilla and Allie Torres with

Rancho Sordo Mudo

o Steve and Julie Olsen with Tyrannus

Halls International

o John and Carol Dettoni with Chrysalis

Ministries

o Partners serving in Central Asia

Los Ranchos Presbytery Missions Summit

Inside Outside Fair

Mission Committee members:

Elder/Chair, Connie Crichton

Elder, Jim Purser

Director of Missional Participation, Sheryl France-Moran

Brenda Elizardi (Representing our Spanish-speaking

brothers and sisters)

Jim Hawkes

Fred Meyer

Marilyn Miller

Kim Nicolai

Connie Veldkamp

Jodie Wenrich

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This year has been one full of growth, not so much in

numbers, but spiritually. In October 2014, we had the

privilege of hosting the Hispanic Leadership Retreat for

Los Ranchos Presbytery, where approximately 20 of our

folks from third service attended. Nestor Bonilla, worship

leader for the third service, has been teaching music

classes where students are learning to play guitar, piano,

or bass for free. We have enough people on our worship

team now for musicians to rotate. The individuals on the

worship team are also invested in their spiritual growth,

as many of them have begun attending our midweek Bible

study.

Our midweek Bible study has grown from 8 people last

year, to anywhere between 15 - 20 people each week.

Our Men’s monthly gathering had not been very

consistent, but this year it is back with approximately 10

men at each meeting. The women also began meeting on

a weekly basis, instead of just once a month. They gather

for Bible study and prayer. We have also implemented a

rotation of three hospitality teams. These folks organize

and serve lunch after the third service each Sunday. They

work together to plan the menu, prepare, serve and clean

up. The purpose of this is not just to provide food, but to

grow relationships, teamwork, and unity within the folks

of the third service.

In addition to having Abel Haro serving on Session, we

now have Gabino Castañeda serving as a Deacon as well.

It is a blessing to start seeing the blending between the

English and Spanish speaking members. We also had the

opportunity to visit and partner with Campo Esperanza,

which is down in Ensenada, Baja Ca. We first visited in

the fall of 2014, and began going down biweekly to serve

on short term mission trips in spring 2015. This has been

a great opportunity for both our English and Spanish

speaking members to serve together.

It was a blessing to have Pastor Steve join our team in the

spring, and we look forward to learning and growing

together this year as well. In spite of challenges along the

way, God is faithful and we continue seeking his guidance

and will for the future of SCPC.

Juan Bonilla

Director of Hispanic Ministry

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The worship team, lead by Rev. Charlie Campbell,

Pastor of Worship, continued to explore the broader

concept of worship and how it takes place within our

congregation and how leaders can guide, enrich, and

inspire the worship experience. Because we are

inclined to be more “audience” than “actors” when

we go to church, it is incumbent on us to continually

look for ways to enable our congregation to

understand and experience the fact that worship is

something we all “do” together. ...community for the

community.

We offer three Sunday services; a more traditional

9:00 a.m. service, a more contemporary service at

10:45 a.m., and our service in Spanish beginning at

12:45 p.m. The Sanctuary Choir, the Isaiah Chorus

and the Sounds of Brass Bell Choir participate each

month in the morning services under the leadership

of Sarah Norris, with Nesa Anderson directing the

bells. John Zechiel continues to accompany the singing

groups, play with the instrumentalists, and assist

Charlie with charting as well as providing piano and

organ solos.

Lay leaders continue to be a vital, integral and

indispensable component of our worship services as

leaders, musicians, greeters, ushers, communion

servers, and communion elements for our weekly

communion. We continue to seek new ways to

maximize these roles as we seek to increase

members “engagement” in the life of the church.

In 2014 we continued the long tradition at SCPC’s

annual Christmas Concert for our own church family

and for our community. The concert tells the story of

Christmas in music and the spoken word.

The ongoing experiment in church planting, under the

leadership of Brieann Knutson, continues to undergo

change and transition. The Monday Night Gathering

has merged with another SCPC small group who

gather weekly around the Word, and then once a

month open up their home for a “community dinner”

where 20-25 people of different faith backgrounds

and life stages gather together for authentic

community and conversation. It has been designed as

a “no agenda” evening so that people feel comfortable

coming just as they are.

Worship ministry experienced some staffing position

changes linked to budget reduction. We said good

bye to Milo Otmar, bass guitar player and Josh

Huppert, our drummer. Through the leadership of

worship ministry, God provided very solid lay

ministry participants to include Saul Bonilla on drums,

Dave Barton on bass, and Jim McCoy, Mike Bautista

and Ross Anderson on acoustic guitar. Finally, we

have seen our lay vocal support grow with young

Natalie Dupree and Brandon Lanford, along with long

standing support from Bette Kerhoulas and Janet

Goode.

The complete worship team, under the leadership

and guidance of Rev. Charlie Campbell, includes

Brieann Knutson, Director of Worship, Lynda

Thomas, Director of Worship Production, Jon

Knutson, Director of Technical Production, Sarah

Norris, Director of Choral Ministries, John Zechiel,

Worship Accompanist, and Janet Goode, Worship

Administrative Assistant. Ruling Elders currently

serving Worship include Larry Thomas and Dick

Veale.

Larry Thomas Ruling Chair Elder, Worship

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The 2014-2015 school year brought change to our

preschool staff. Julie Snyder took over as the

Preschool Director which opened up a lead

teaching position. Elana Benge stepped in as lead

teacher in the Bluebird Class. Claudia Ruiz joined

our preschool staff as an assistant teacher in the

Apple class. She earned her B.A. in Early

Childhood Education from California State

University, Fullerton. Crystal Bonilla, the Assistant

Director and church member will be going into

her 7th year. Stacie Shepherd resigned from the

preschool staff to serve at the local preschool her

children attended. This opened up a position for

Rebecca Lanford, who had been on maternity

leave, to return to our preschool staff. Rebecca

and her family are active in SCPC community.

Julie Snyder has been a long time member, as well

as staff member, and thoroughly enjoyed her first

year in her new role as director. She is passionate

about educating young children, serving young

families of our community, and connecting

preschool families to the church community. 20

preschool families attended our Family Mix It Up

event in December.

Our current program offers morning sessions five

days a week and an afternoon enrichment class

(Owls) three days a week. Our afternoon

enrichment class has proven to be very popular

with our parents and the children. This class is so

exciting because it provides opportunities for

children to participate in live science, music, and

the arts. Also popular with our preschool families

is our daily Lunch Bunch Program. This is our

Extended Day Program and it is designed to meet

our parents’ need for a longer school day. It is

offered after school each day. Families may sign-up

for one, two, or three hours each day their child

attends school. We are able to accommodate 30 –

40 children per day.

On a daily basis we employee15 staff members 5

days a week, 75 children attend our morning

session and 15 children attend our afternoon

session. Our preschool is able to accommodate

approximately150 families.

The preschool is deeply devoted to its critical role

in our church and community, and our preschool

staff continues to thank the Lord as He continues

to care for the preschool and its thriving ministry.

Julie Snyder

Preschool Director

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SCPC’s fiscal year ended 31 June 2015.

Contributions received were $250,554 short of

our budget expectation. During the Fall of 2014,

the Session anticipated this dramatic shortfall, and

reduced our budgeted expenditures. Surely you

have noticed the staff layoffs necessitated by these

revenue shortfalls. We regret their necessity. Our

total receipts exceeded spending by $82,939; we

ran a surplus.

In round figures, SCPC spends $200,000 per

month in total operations. This sum includes

mortgage payments, utilities, salaries, mission

projects, payments to the Presbytery, and myriad

other costs. A general business principle would

suggest we have 'operating reserve' for two

months, or $400,000. At the end of the FY, SCPC

had a negative operating reserve ($91,965). SCPC

had to borrow that sum in order to meet its

continuing obligations. The funds were borrowed

from several ‘dedicated accounts’ maintained by the

church. That is, donations were made to the

church, earmarked for expenditures on specific

programs (i.e. sending kids to camp). The church

‘borrowed’ funds from those accounts to pay its

continuing obligations (salaries, utilities, etc.).

When those $91,965 are paid back, the church can

start to build its operating reserve. The church is

presented a financial challenge which becomes

more severe each month. Please continue to pray

for our church finances.

During this calendar year, certain members of the

committee have been pursuing refinance of the

existing mortgages. Recently, a lender has

provided a letter of intent to loan funds to us

which will result in approximately $90,000 in

annual savings, every year for 7 years. We are

confident this loan will be realized, thus removing

some of the financial stress of the church.

The debt reduction campaign is progressing well.

$711,000 was pledged, of which $485,810 has been

collected.

The Ministry Support team is grateful to all of you

who contributed to SCPC throughout the year and

answered our prayers of need. Thank you. We

are truly blessed.

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FISCAL YEAR 2014 2015

YTD YTD YTD Actual %

Actual Budget vs. Budget Change

Variance

General Fund Income $2,146,736 $2,377,001 ($230,265) -10%

General Fund Expenses

PHOS 18,382 78,200 (59,818) -76%

Admin 338,341 344,100 (5,759) -2%

Family Ministry 16,742 26,700 (9,958) -37%

Missions 24,002 61,000 (36,998) -61%

Worship 28,773 35,645 (6,872) -19%

Salaries/Benefits 1,234,215 1,345,355 (111,140) -8%

Discipleship 12,523 23,000 (10,477) (46%)

Mortgage 390,819 396,000 (5,181) -1%

Total General Fund Expenses $2,063,797 $2,310,000 $(246,203) -11%

Surplus/

Deficit $82,939 $67,001 $15,938

Current Assets - June 2015

Dedicated Funds $291,358

Capital Reserve $41,189

Operating Reserve ($91,965)

Total Current Assets $240,582

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FISCAL YEAR 2013 2014

Current through

June 30, 2014 %Rate

Monthly

Principal

Monthly

Interest

Total

Payment

Current

Balance

Time Remaining

Loan Due/

Adjust

First BF Mortgage-

Fixed 2.17% $11,078 $5,788 $16,866 $3,097,301

2.5 Years January 1, 2018

Second BF Mortgage-

Fixed 6.31% $4,916 $10,370 $15,286 $1,908,445

2.5 Years January 1, 2018

Total Mortgage Loans $15,994 $16,158 $32,152 $5,005,746

Debt Reduction Balances - June 2014

Pledges $701,000

Total Given $485,810

Total Building Fund Cash on Hand $254,376

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Total Active Membership June 30, 2015 1265

Active membership reported June 30, 2014: 1537

Total Gains in fiscal year 2014/15 10

Total Losses in fiscal year 2014/15 21

Total Losses from 2014 Membership Review 261

Baptisms July 1, 2014—June 30, 2015

1 Adult 10 Infants

Clerk of Session

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July 2014 785

August 783

September 840

October 832

November 869

December 1029

January 2015 898

February 852

March 841

April (Easter) 1375

May 733

June 866

ANNUAL WEEKLY AVERAGE: 855

AVERAGE WEEKLY ATTENDANCE PER MONTH:

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2010 2011 Marguerite Beauchamp August 9, 2014 Mary Morgan August 9, 2014 Leon Burke August 28, 2014 June Poindexter October 21, 2014 Lawrence Burr November 30, 2014 Gus Sintetos December 17, 2014 John Dempsey April 1, 2015 Julie Bright April 18, 2015 Don Vincent June 15, 2015

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119 north avenida de la estrella san clemente ca 92672

P. 949.492.6158 f.949.492.2514 www.scpres.org