Parish Council Minutes

Post date: Apr 28, 2015 2:27:42 AM

March 17, 2015

Members Present: Wendy Brys, Paul Lanzski, Paul Mueller, Judy Kohn, Cal Deline, Connie Guffey, Kenny See and Fr. Shaun.

Minutes were read and passed.

Buildings and Grounds Committee: Floor in the lobby is going to be torn down the week after Easter. Construction will take place following that date. The committee will meet on Monday to finalize all plans.

Response Letter to Parishioner Concerns: Kenny read the response letter to the parishioner with concerns of the direction of the parish. Discussion was held and we again appreciate the passion of the parishioner or any parishioner on the events of the parish. We are open to all ideas and comments. All final decisions about the running of the parish rest with the pastor. We, as a council, are there to support and give feedback when requested. It was suggested that we have a forum periodically where parishioners can voice their concerns or comments. We are unsure at this point if this would be a necessity. We are going to give this up to prayer before we make a decision on this. It will be tabled until the next meeting.

Meeting with St. Joe’s: Very open forum. Much of it was talking about opportunities for the two parishes to share resources. How can we grow the Catholic community of Adrian? Some of the obvious was RCIA, sacrament preparation, and youth ministry. Also, the sharing of staff ministries. Possibly a common bulletin also a broader sharing of social activities. Reaching out to the Siena Heights community. Also, talking about the very real possibility of clustering which is combining the two churches with one pastor. If we can at least look at this at the grassroots level to see how this combining might work it might make it easier if this happens from the upper levels. This is not in the near future but it very well could happen.

Speaker for Teens/Youth: Plans for the evening for our speaker Meg were discussed. She is coming to talk with the teens on Sunday evening and the women on Monday evening.

Paul Tiseo: Is coming April 11th, Saturday to share his music and faith. The time is at 7:00. He will be playing in the church. Light refreshments will be served.

Discipleship Program: We are still looking at programs to be started next year. Gathering information about the various programs.

Volunteer Appreciation Evening: Quotes were taken with Stone’s Caterers for May 2nd and a recap of how the evening might go. We will look over these quotes and and make a decision which way we want to go. The staff accumulated the list of volunteers to be invited. It was also suggested that we email the ministry heads to get a list of their current volunteers so that no one is missed. All RSVP’s should come through Rocio. The parish council will stuff and write out invitations. A date was set for Tuesday, April 7th to prepare the invitations. 6:00 time was set.

Meeting was adjourned at 8:53.

The next meeting will be Tuesday, April 28, 2015.