St. James Parish
Council Minutes
December 10, 2001
OPENING PRAYER: Anita Holt
Present: Mike Klamm, Anita Holt, Jerome Schieder, Annette
Talbot, Chris Venditti, Doris Cadd, Lou Carey, Father Ron and Father Dien.
Absent:
Ed Barlet
and Roger Holyfield
The
meeting was opened by Vice-Chairman Anita Holt. The November minutes were approved with the addition to the
School report that families of 3 year olds from neighboring parishes and St.
James were invited to an open house at the school. The December agenda was approved as
submitted.
Program: Father Ron lead the group in an exercise titled
Where are you taking your Parish? A
series of questions concerning the parish were answered by each and then the
responses talleyed. It was an
interesting and thought provoking drill that led to a discussion of what we are
doing and how we communicate with the parish as a whole. We all agreed there was room for improvement
and it would be interesting to do the exercise again in a year.
Agenda:
1) Annette Talbot presented a
summary of a preliminary study on a daycare operation. She visited with area parishes to learn what
they were doing and what they might do differently. She is exploring the pros and cons of an on campus facility vs. a
leased facility in the area. Some of
the next steps are to conduct a survey to measure the number of children we
could expect to use the facility, decide if this a ministry or moneymaking
program or both. Annette feels this
could be a money maker based on her preliminary projections.
2) Steve Gregoire led a
discussion on the organization of a Mardi Gras themed appreciation party for
the ministry heads and their guest. The
date is February 12th starting at 7pm and ending when its over. It will be held in the Social Hall and we
expect approximately 60 attendees.
Anita Holt will prepare the invitations with an RSVP by February
1st. Doris Cadd and Lou Carey will
coordinate the food and drink. Steve
Gregoire will order the masks and beads to be passed out to all and obtain some
decorations. Willie Fontanez will be
contacted by Steve to help with the music
3) Roger Holyfield was not
present to report on the parish workday but called in that he was working on
the list of things to do and the deep cleaning of the Church would be done for
Easter.
4) Father Ron updated all on
the Catholic / Methodist Dialogue program.
Father meet with Pastor Mark Turnball of the Liberty Methodist Church
and together have 12 parishioners from each church to begin meeting each
Tuesday beginning in April. There will
be six meetings, three at each church.
The purpose is to learn more about each others church, practices and
people in order to have a better appreciation of each other.
5) Jerome Schieder updated on
the new handicapped parking spaces recently added. Jerome indicated all the spaces old and new were used at the 5pm
mass last weekend and all but 3 were used at the 9:15 mass.
6) Father Ron reported on
conversations he had with several parishioners on the location of the
wheelchairs in our church. Based on the
responses he received the primary concern was to keep the isle ways wide enough
for movement of the wheelchairs.
7) We reviewed the 2010 plan
and certain items to be completed by year-end.
Item #1, B, 6 suggests more holiday greeters, Steve will call Mary
Thomas to confirm she has this covered.
It was noted it was good to see more young people at the front doors
greeting each Sunday. Item #1, B, 7 a
greeting to new parishioners will be put in the worship aid for people to fill
out and return to an area in the Narthex.
# 2, A, 7 The choir exchange will be arranged after the first of the
year. It was suggested we exchange
choir with the Methodist Church which ties into the directive described
above. #3, B, 2 a deep cleaning will be
completed by Easter. Roger Holyfield is
helping to coordinate.
8) Ed Barlet will lead a group
on developing a program for replacement of Parish Council members based on the
Councils 501 program recently presented.
Helping Ed will be Doris, Chris and Lou.
Youth
Jerome Schieder The youth lock out was attended by 25 kids who enjoyed warm
weather, an outdoor mass, soup and salad and a eye-opening visit to the City
Union Mission.
Liturgy
Ed Barlett No Report
Communication
Doris Cadd No Report
Christian
Formation Chris Venditti - No Report
Catholic
Organizations Roger Holyfield No Report, but Doris Cadd to check on the
availability of the Maybe Center and costs involved for the all parish mass to
be held in the spring of 2002.
School
Anita Holt A new security system has been installed on the front doors of
the school to alert the office when someone comes through the door during non-peak
hours. Anita reported Mark Hidy has
purchased a bus that can be used by the school or other ministries to transport
people around.
Human
Concerns and Outreach Annette Talbot No Report
Religious
Education Steve Gregoire Fran Riley is working on an evangelisms program
for families currently interacting with the church such as baptism and school
families.
Parish
and Family Life Mike Klamm The girl scouts want to sell cookies one Sunday
this January after masses. Mike
reviewed the criteria with them and they are to set the date with Mike. We will be electing three members for the
Fund Raiser Monitoring Committee next month.
Administration
/ Stewardship Lou Carey No Report
Meeting
notes courtesy of Michael Klamm