Christ Gospel Tabernacle

Christ Gospel Tabernacle!

BY-LAWS OF CHRIST GOSPEL TABERNACLE

AN ECCLESIASTICAL CORPORATION

BY-LAWS OF CHRIST GOSPEL TABERNACLE

ARTICLE I.

OFFICES

Section 1: Corporation Offices. The principal and registered offices of the corporation shall be located at 30500 Harper Avenue, St. Clair Shores, Michigan, or at such other place or places within the State of Michigan as designated by the Board of Directors from time to time.

ARTICLE II.

MEMBERS

Section 1: Qualifications. Any person of the age of eighteen years or more may become a voting Member of the Corporation upon confession of Jesus Christ as their Savior and affirmation of belief in the Articles of Faith of the Christ Gospel Tabernacle.

Section 2: Annual Meetings. An annual meeting of the Members shall be held on the last Wednesday of the year, at a time set by the Board of Directors, beginning with the year of 1956, for the transaction of such business as may come before the meeting. If the day fixed for the annual meeting shall be a legal holiday, such meeting shall be held on the next succeeding business day.

Section 3: Special Meetings. Special meetings of the Members may be called by the President or upon petition of any two Directors directed to the President or upon petition of ten Members directed to the President, and upon receipt of such petition the President shall call a special meeting of the Members within thirty days.

Section 4: Place of Meetings. The Board of Directors may designate any suitable place as the place of meeting of any annual or special meeting of the Members. If an designation is made the place of meeting shall be the registered office of the corporation.

Section 5: Notice of Meetings. Notice of all special meetings of the Members shall be given by announcing the time and place of the same at the Sunday Morning Worship on the two consecutive Sundays immediately preceding the proposed date of the special meeting. No further notice than this by-law is necessary for the annual meeting of the members.

Section 6: Quorum. The number of Members attending any meeting shall constitute a quorum at that particular meeting and no minimum numbers of Members is necessary.

ARTICLE III.

DIRECTORS

Section 1: General Powers. The general temporal business affairs of the corporation shall be managed by its Board of Directors, which shall include all appointments of Pastors.

Section 2: Number, Tenure and Qualifications. The number of Directors of the corporation shall be four. Each Director shall hold office until he or she shall resign or be removed from office as hereinafter provided or until his or her decease, Each Director shall be a Member of the corporation and at least of the age of twenty one years.

Section 3: Election of Directors. The Directors shall be elected by a majority of the Members present at a meeting called for the election of Directors. Upon the resignation, removal or death of a Director a special meeting of the Members shall be called by the President within sixty days from such resignation, removal or death for the purpose of electing a Director to fill the vacancy.

Section 4: Regular Meetings. A regular meeting of the Directors shall be held without other notice than this by-law, immediately following the regular meeting of the Members, on the last Wednesday of the year, commencing with the last Wednesday of 1956. Also regular business meetings of the Directors shall be held on the last Wednesday of each month without other notice than this by-law. If the day fixed for the regular meeting shall be a legal holiday, such meeting shall be held on the next succeeding business day.

Section 5: Special Meetings. Special meetings of the Directors may be called by or at the request of the President or any two Directors.

Section 6: Notice of Special Meetings. Notice of any special meet ing of the Directors shall be given at least three days prior thereto by either written notice delivered personally or written notice delivered by mail to each Director.

Section 7: Place of Meetings. The President may designate any suitable place as the place of meeting of any meeting of the Directors. If no designation is made the place of meeting shall be the registered office of the corporation.

Section 8: Quorum. A majority of the Board of Directors shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of any business at any meeting of the Directors.

Section 9: Manner of Acting. The act of the majority of the Directors present at a regularly constituted meeting of the Directors at which a quorum is present shall be the act of the Directors.

Section 10: Compensation. The Directors shall receive no salaries or other compensation for their services as Directors. The Directors may be reimbursed for expenses incurred by them in the performance of their duties if approved by the Directors.

ARTICLE IV.

OFFICERS

Section 1: Number. The officers of the Corporation shall be President, Vice-President, Secretary and Treasurer, and such other officers as the Directors shall from time to time deem necessary to appoint. Any two offices may be held by the same Director at the same time except those of President and Vice-President.

Section 2: Election and Term of Office. The officers of the corporation shall be elected by the Directors at the first meeting of the Directors and thereafter at the annual meeting of the Directors on the last Wednesday of each year. Vacancies may be filled or new offices created and filled at any meeting of the Directors. Each officer shall hold office for one year and until his successor shall have been duly elected and qualified, provided however, in the event of the removal or decease of an officer during the term of his or her office, the Directors shall fill the vacancy for the unexpired term.

Section 3: Removal. Any officer elected or appointed by the Board of Directors may be removed by the Directors whenever in its judgment the best interest of the corporation would be served thereby.

Section 4: President and Vice-President. The President, or in his or her absence, the Vice-President, shall preside at all meetings of the Members and Directors and shall have general supervision over the temporal affairs of the corporation and shall be the general executive officer thereof.

Section 5: Secretary. The Secretary shall keep the minutes of all meetings, both of the Directors and the Members, and shall have charge of the books of the corporation, excepting the books of account of the Treasurer, and the seal of the corporation and shall affix such seal to all instruments required to be sealed.

Section 6: Treasurer. The Treasurer shall be the custodian of and receive and pay all money coming to and owing by the corporation and shall make an annual report of the fiscal condition of the corporation at each annual meeting of the Members and shall keep sufficient books of account of the corporation.

ARTICLE V.

CONTRACTS, DEPOSITS AND CHECKS

Section 1: Contracts. All contracts shall be executed by the President and attested by the Secretary in the name of the corporation. The Directors may authorize any officer or Member to enter into any contract or execute and deliver any instrument in the name of and on behalf of the corporation, and such authority may be general or confined to specific instances.

Section 2: Deposits. All funds of the corporation not otherwise employed shall be deposited from time to time to the credit of the corporation in such banks, trust companies or other depositories as the Directors may direct.

Section 3: Checks. All checks or orders for payment of money shall be signed by such officers or agents as the Directors may direct.

ARTICLE VI.

FISCAL YEAR

Section 1: Fiscal Year. The fiscal year shall begin on the first day of January and end on the thirty first day of December of each year.

ARTICLE VII.

SEAL

Section 1: Seal. The Directors shall provide a corporate seal for the corporation.

ARTICLE VIII.

WAIVER OF NOTICE

Section 1: Waiver of Notice. Whenever any notice is required to be given under the provisions of these by-laws or under the provisions of the Articles of Incorporation or under the provisions of the Michigan General Corporation Act, waiver thereof in writing, signed by the person or persons entitled to such notice, whether before or after the time stated therein, shall be deemed equivalent to the giving of such notice.

ARTICLE IX.

AMENDMENTS

Section 1: Amendments to By-laws. These by-laws may be altered, amended or repealed and new by-laws may be adopted at any annual meeting of the Members, or at any special meeting of the Members called for that purpose, by the majority vote of the Members present.

Adopted: December 8, 1956.

Signed: Lucile P. Bogle

President

Attest:

Signed: Jack Munsell

Secretary

CALL AND WAIVER OF NOTICE OF FIRST MEETING OF MEMBERS

We, the undersigned, being all the incorporators of the Christ Gospel Tabernacle, and all the Members entitled to notice of the first meeting of Members, do hereby call the first meeting of the Members thereof, to be held at 30500 Harper Avenue, St. Clair Shores, Michigan, at 7:30 o'clock in the afternoon on the day of December, 1956, for the election of Directors, and the transaction of such other business as may properly come before the said meeting and we hereby waive all requirements as to notice of such meeting and consent to such election of Directors and transaction of business.

Dated this _8th day of December, 1956, at City of St. Clair Shores, County of Macomb and State of Michigan.

Signed: Lucile P. Bogle

Signed: Robert E. Munsell

Signed: Jack Munsell

Signed: Leo Benscoter

MINUTES OF THE FIRST MEETING OF MEMBERS OF THE

CHRIST GOSPEL TABERNACLE

The first meeting of the Members of the Christ Gospel Tabernacle was held at 30500 Harper Avenue, St. Clair Shores, Michigan, at 7:30 o'clock in the afternoon on the 8th day of December, 1956, pursuant to the foregoing call and waiver of notice.

Lucile P. Bogle called the meeting to order and stated its object.

On motion duly made and carried, Lucile P. Bogle was elected chairman of the meeting and Jack Munsell was elected secretary of the meeting.

The chairman declared that a quorum was present and that the meeting was competent to proceed with the transaction of business for which it was called.

Thereupon, a set of by-laws was presented for the regulation of the affairs of the corporation, after being considered article by article and as a whole, were, on motion duly made and carried, adopted. The Secretary was directed to insert said by-laws in the minute book immediately following the minutes of the first meeting of the Directors.

On motion duly made and carried, the Members proceeded to elect Directors of said corporation, and the following persons were declared duly elected Directors of said corporation, to serve as provided in the by-laws, to-wit: (1) Lucile P. Bogle; (2) Robert Munsell; (3) Jack Munsell; and (4) Leo Benscoter.

There being no further business before the meeting, on motion duly made and carried, the meeting was adjourned.

Lucile P. Bogle Jack Munsell

Lucile P. Bogle, Chairman Jack Munsell, Secretary

Approved: Approved:

Lucile P. Bogle Jack Munsell

Robert E. Munsell Leo W. Benscoter

Robert Munsell Leo Benscoter

CALL AND WAIVER OF NOTICE OF

FIRST MEETING OF DIRECTORS

We, the undersigned, being all Directors of the Christ Gospel Tabernacle, do hereby call the first meeting of such Directors to be held at 30500 Harper Avenue, St. Clair Shores, Michigan, on the 8th day of December, 1956, at 8:30 o'clock in the afternoon, for the purpose of electing officers, and for the transaction of any and all business pertaining to the affairs of said corporation, and we hereby waiver all statutory and other requirements as to notice of time, place and objects of said meeting, and hereby consent to such election of officers, and transaction of such business as may come before said meeting properly.

Dated this 8th day of December, 1956, at City of St. Clair Shores,

County of Macomb and State of Michigan.

Signed: Lucile P. Bogle

Robert E. Munsell

Jack Munsell

Leo W. Benscoter

MINUTES OF THE FIRST MEETING OF THE DIRECTORS OF THE

CHRIST GOSPEL TABERNACLE

The first meeting of the Directors of the Christ Gospel Tabernacle was held at 30500 Harper Avenue, St. Clair Shores, Michigan, on the 8th day of December, 1956, at 8:30 o'clock in the afternoon, pursuant to the foregoing call and waiver of notice of all Directors of said corporation.

The following Directors of the corporation were present: (1) Lucile P. Bogle; (2) Robert Munsell; (3) Jack Munsell; and (4) Leo Benscoter, constituting the whole of the Board of Directors.

Upon motion duly made, second and unanimously carried, Lucile P. Bogle was chosen chairman, and Jack Munsell was chosen Secretary of the meeting.

The chairman called for nomination of officers. Thereupon the following persons were duly nominated for officers of the corporation, to serve in accord with the terms of the by-laws, to-wit:

(1) President Lucile P. Bogle

(2) Vice-President Robert Munsell

(3) Secretary Jack Munsell

(4) Treasurer Leo Benscoter

No further nominations being made, the nominations were closed and the Directors proceeded to vote on the nominees. All the Directors present at the meeting having voted, and the votes having been counted, the chairman announced the aforesaid nominees had been duly elected to the offices set before their respective names, by the affirmative votes of all the Directors of the Corporation.

The Secretary then presented a seal conforming to the provisions of the by-laws, and making the following imprint:

Thereupon, on motion duly made and seconded, the following resolution was unanimously adopted: “RESOLVED, That the seal presented to this meeting be and is hereby adopted as the seal of the corporation.”

Thereupon, on motion duly made and seconded, the following resolution was unanimously adopted: "RESOLVED, That the officers of this corporation be and they are hereby authorized to pay all organization expenses of this corporation out of the funds of this corporation.”

There being no further business, on motion duly made and seconded and carried, the meeting was adjourned.

Signed: Jack Munsell

Approved:

Signed: Lucile P. Bogle