Common Leadership Night

Commission and Council Reports

February 3, 2009

Pastoral Council:

The budget will be worked on in March or April. All groups should be represented in the covenant booklet somehow. A book for transition was offered to read as to how this should be handled. The role of this committee should be decided by them.

Formation:

The Formation commission firmed up the plans for the “Soup and Movie” nights during Lent. The event will be held beginning 2/28/09 after 4:30pm mass – offering soup, bread, and a drink for supper – followed by a movie. This will run each Saturday through 3/28/09.  The commission members determined who will be the “kitchen captain” on each Saturday (making sure the hall is set up, and the soup is ready for movie goers after Mass).  Each captain will staff kitchen with additional volunteers.  Sandra will circulate a sign up sheet at Sunday night CCD – to get student volunteers. We have restaurants willing to donate soup/and two “guest” soup chefs.  Debbie Cameron and Judy Smith gave recommendation of various movies appropriate for the event. From these recommendations the members chose five movies.   Each committee member agreed to take care one or two of the following tasks in preparation for the event: publicity, purchasing of paper goods, drinks, and bread, obtaining the movies.

Outreach:

Outreach has worked on composing detailed job descriptions of the various committees that fall under heading of Outreach. We also began exploring the development of a committee to reach out to parishioners in crisis. Also addressed contacting volunteers.

Worship:

We focused on fine tuning our operation. Each group is to report on their progress. There will an informational meeting of the choir with rum cake refreshments. Music at CCD is going well. Lenten booklets have been chosen and will be mailed to those selected by Outreach. A Lenten Family Activity is planned for March. There will be an afternoon retreat for Eucharistic ministers in March as a refresher course.

Community: (Operating as the Hospitality Committee)

We discussed plans for the St. Patrick’s Day dinner dance. It will take place on Friday, March 13 at the Williams Inn. The co-chairs for this event are Maureen and Tim Moore. Menu, entertainment, decorations are all set. Tickets will be sold after masses (dates tba). A detailed bulletin announcement will follow.

We discussed coffee hours, their recent successes, and a possible chair person for the scheduling of families to host every other Sunday.

We continued to discuss the possibility of a parish picnic and a chairperson.

Administration:

Final stages toward completion of parish census are underway. A report on the census will be given at each Mass this weekend. Additional census forms will be available at the back of the church after each Mass. If assistance is needed in completing the census form, Jim Eglin may be contacted at 458-5096. We also discussed publicity and will consider it further at the next meeting.