Minutes of Pastoral Council Meetings can be found at http://www.saintstans.net/PastoralCouncil.html
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Opening prayer led Lee Falkavage
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As part of the spiritual development of our meeting Mary Ann
Powell, as leader, asked how
we could be a more welcoming community and suggested that the time between the
end of 8:00am Mass and the beginning of the 10:30 Mass be used for a community
event like a pancake breakfast or a special speaker. We will solicit suggestions from our Committees and offer our own
suggestions at our January meeting.
Anyone having suggestions they want to share can forward to Bob Rogers
at brogers@g2a.net .
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Family Life – Penny Wachowiak updated us about the possibility of establishing a nursery. Messages ran in two weeks of the bulletin,
there were no responses. Since only three
people expressed an interest at the Ministry Fair and no responses to our
bulletin request the idea of a nursery will not be pursued at this time.
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Gene VanRyzin reported that the Justice and Peace Committee designated who the food
baskets will go to and who will pick up/deliver the baskets. Also the Committee
is responsible for serving the meal at the House of Peace on January 24th.
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Mary
Owens, Barb Reed and Pat Bohanski joined the Sacred Worship Committee. At their
most recent meeting they discussed Mass attendance and Mass counts during
October which was mandated by the diocese for long-range planning. Bob Rogers will
assemble a report to compare Mass attendance over the years counts have been
taken. Preliminary results suggest that
attendance is down slightly from previous years. Collection boxes have been
recycled to the Art and Environment Committee for plant stands. Committee also
discussed the Mission provided during Lent.
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Catholic
Education Committee is suggested offering the opportunity for people to give a
money donation that would be used to purchase a flower/s in memory of a loved
one. Each flower would have a marker on it indicating who the memorial is for. Gary Tanko will talk to Rita Brilowski or
Barb Rogers about this.
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Gene LaRose and Dave Fletcher gave us a report from the Finance Council. Currently the Bishop’s Annual Appeal is
$16,000 to $17,000 short of our goal.
They also highlight the goals that the Finance Council set for itself
which includes informing our community about wills and memorials, establishing
a Building and Grounds Committee and establishing endowments. They also discussed sending a letter to people
who haven’t responded to our Renewal Program to invite them to update their
Parish information and encourage them to become more engaged with our
community.
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Stevens Point Deanery: The Coordinator Position will be
revised so that it will be reduced to about half the expense of the current
position. The Deanery Library is offering books to interested people. The Deanery continues to organize a
“Catholic Journey”, with Fr. Marty Pable as guest speaker and Smokey Express
providing music. Youth contests will be
organized along with other events.
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Fr.
Al is home, but very weak and recovery will be 3-4 months. It is not likely he will return until May.
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Dave
will attend a Mission Trip to the West Indies area through Works of
Charity. He will be gone from Jan
11-Feb 10. Dave will present the idea
in the future of creating a mission group from St. Stan’s that would possibly
go annually to help with construction, painting etc. The idea of providing scholarships for those unable to fund the
trip will possibly be proposed. Dave
will gather further information when he returns.
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Ministry
Fair—Received about 75 replies for volunteers in different areas of the
parish. Linda is creating a
spreadsheet. This will be passed to
committees and it is encouraged that they contact these new volunteers as soon
as possible.
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UWSP
and Parish representatives will meet
Monday, Dec.3 to review the UWSP campus
master plan and how it will affect us.
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Interim
Bulletin Policy was approved:
“The parish
secretary is responsible for reviewing submitted bulletin inserts to make sure
they are appropriate. Any questionable inserts will be reviewed by the
Pastoral Minister and the Pastor for approval.”
This policy will remain in effect until Fr. Al’s return at
which time it will be reviewed.
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A
proposal to change the Bylaws of Pastoral Council Meeting Dates to the Second
Tuesday of the month will be voted on at January’s meeting.
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A
Survey will be conducted in January to find out if there is interest in
establishing a Parish Nurse Program
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Dave
Fletcher continues to work on further developing our Welcoming Ministry
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NEXT MEETING DATE: January 8, 2008