December 13, 2005
Attendees:
Father Price, Frank Altdoerffer, Robbie Ponseigo,Ollie Bennett, Taco
Mejia, Jeff Sepulvado, Steve Cadwell,
Cindy McGowan, Dan Cezar, Gloria Evans.
Visiting guest was Mr. Jim Lenox
Robbie opened with a prayer. Taco was the presider over this meeting.
MINUTES
Minutes of the last meeting were reviewed by
everyone. Motion made to accept the
minutes by Steve Cadwell, Gloria Evans 2nd, The minutes were accepted as
presented.
OPEN AGENDA FOR FATHER PRICE
Father has received 3 nominations so far for the
Diocesan Medal of Honor. He will put a
reminder in the bulletin one more time to make sure that everyone has a chance
to nominate someone if they choose to do so.
Father said the turnout Monday night for the Spanish
Mass in honor of Our Lady of Guadalupe was good. About 65 were there.
Further conversation concerning our Spanish,
Vietnamese, Indian & Pakistan brothers and sisters that are attending our
church and a suggestion was made to possibly have missals in their lanugauge
ordered for the church. Father will be
checking on this and letting us know.
He mentioned the "trial" 11am Mass and
starting this (upon the Bishops approval) to go for the 8 weeks of Ordinary
time. Father mentioned that he would
welcome
others helping with the Rosary before the Masses each
week. He suggested a
"sign-up" sheet in the foyer of the church for the various groups and
individuals that would like to take this opportunity to lead the congregation
in the Rosary. He plans on putting this
in the bulletin as well.
OLD BUSINESS:
5-Year Plan
Taco mentioned that Grant Frederick was still working
on the plan. This is a huge task and we
are very grateful to him for this undertaking. Grant hopes to have this completed sometime after the 1st of the
year.
Statue of the Blessed Mother from Holy Rosary
Gloria told us that all the materials are in for the
statue but that Dennis Rich has been very ill and not been able to work on
it. He and Larry Alexander hope to have
this finish within the next month.
Convention of Councils (Pastoral and Finance) on Feb
11, 2006 at the Catholic Center - reminder
for signing up with the church office.
Cindy is checking with Carol to
make sure that she has the list of attendees from the Pastoral council.
NEW BUSINESS:
On Site Prayer Ministry - Mr. Lenox gave a great
talk about his experiences regarding the On-Site Prayer ministry. This ministry is non-denominational. It is a group of people who go to a crime scene
site and prayer for those who have killed or were killed. Because our mission clearly states we are to
proclaim the works of God and to live as Jesus taught then we must find ways to
reach out to others as Jesus would.
This has had a significant impact on grieving families. Mr. Lenox would welcome anyone who might be
interested in forming this group here.
Census Form Design Committee & Pictorial Directory
Committee Volunteers- -due to the
joining of Holy Rosary and St Mary's it is necessary to update our census
records. This will be done the same
time as the Pictorial Directory. Holy
Rosary had a very complete census form that was presented to Father. In addition, Father explained that the
Shelby computer system has the capacity to capture all of the information as
well as categorize it. Father said
Steve Lenox will need to appoint Committee Heads for the Census as well as the
Pictorial Directory.
WEBSITE: It has been suggested to post the minutes of the
Pastoral Council on the website. While
Father is not in favor of this he is in favor of putting that which pertains
and is relevant to the parish; i.e. upcoming events such as the 11am Mass and
the sign-up sheets for the Rosary.
Since so much of the pastoral council meetings consist of discussion
alot of the notes would not be relevant.
OPEN AGENDA FOR SACRED HEART
Other commitments prevented anyone from Sacred Heart
attending but on their behalf Jeff Sepulvado presented the completed 5 year
plan to Father. Much conversation was
made concerning the renewal of Sacred Heart.
They are re-energized and working harder than ever to carry out the
mission of Jesus Christ.
We are very proud of them and need to continue to pray
and support our brothers and sisters at Sacred Heart.
Our next meeting will be January 10, 2006 at
6:30p.m.. The quarterly Meeting will
be held the same night..
Fr. closed our meeting with prayer.
Minutes respectfully submitted by Cindy McGowan