Leadership Council

This directory provides contact information for the Leadership Council. For a description of Leadership Council responsibilities, please go to the bottom of the page.

Council Members
Phone & Email

Renie Abraham Eapen

763-786-5759
renieeapen@yahoo.com

Jeff Goldsmith
Treasurer

Hans Hansen
Jim Kinzie
Executive Director
651-633-1643
jkkinzie@yahoo.com

George Kuehner
Assistant Director

651-783-9203

Lynn Radtke
Secretary

763-754-1526
lcradtke@msn.com

Jeff Rust

763-560-7747
Jeff_Rust@datacard.com

Beth Stadler
651-486-9490
stadler@umn.edu

 

Leadership Council Responsibilities


1. Works with the staff to ensure that the mission will be implemented and sustained through the efforts of congregational members.
2. Is responsible to see that Christian education programs, spiritual care and nurturing of its members and outreach to the community are conducted in a God-pleasing manner.
3. Reviews proposed annual objectives and prepares an annual budget for approval by the congregation.
4. Oversees financial expenditures.
5. The members of the Leadership Council shall individually and collectively:

  • Provide spiritual leadership for Messiah
  • Be intimately involved in the spiritual care of the congregation
  • Be intimately involved in the spiritual growth of the congregation
  • Pray for the needs of Messiah
  • Pray for the needs of individual members of Messiah
  • Be available to offer prayer to members when they need or request it
  • Be focused on spiritual matters as well as concerned with administrative matters
  • Be prayerfully supportive of the ministry staff at Messiah
  • Be prayerfully supportive and encouraging to each other