From the President - January 2001

Dear Friends,

I am pleased to report that the Long Range Planning Committee has submitted an excellent report to the Board. We are working at implementing the report. At this time, we have already accomplished many of the recommendations from Long Range Planning by:

  1. Hiring a full-time educator whose duties include education from cradle to grave.
  2. Initiating a Havurah program in which 130 members formed new Havurah groups. We now have 13 Havurot.
  3. Advancing new cooperative relationships among the various Jewish organizations in Albuquerque and strengthening existing ones. We are currently in the process of working jointly with the JCC on our 2001 Golf Tournament (our top fundraising activity for the Temple).
  4. Improving communication by placing nearly one-half of our households on our email list and providing weekly notices of events via email as well as emergency or special notification by email.
  5. Repaying the largest part of the monies borrowed from our restricted funds. In a process that is continuing, we are especially pleased to have completely repaid our Cemetery Fund. In addition, we have amended our Constitution to ensure that such borrowing cannot occur in the future.
  6. Documenting, through the work of our Membership Committee, the reasons members leave, and, where appropriate, addressing problem areas.
  7. Reinstating our kindergarten program.
  8. Developing new prayer books with transliteration and translation. These new books have enabled many congregants to pray with the Congregation without having to know how to read Hebrew.
  9. Expanding our adult education offerings.
  10. Providing to the Social Action Committee a bulletin board in the front lobby to inform congregants of social action activities.
  11. Adding greeters and ushers at most services.
  12. Offering "Teaching Services".
  13. Initiating opportunities for informal dialog with Clergy and Lay Leadership.
  14. Supporting TASTY's food drive for the JFS food bank.

Thank you to Long Range Planning and all the people who participated. These accomplishments have strengthened our Congregation.

B'Shalom,
Karen Kahn

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