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Sts. Joseph & Paul Catholic Church |
Parish Council Minutes | |
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Meeting began at 6:30 p.m. in the Parish Office building. M embers present: Pete
Johnson, Ron Greene, John Wells, Mike Hagan, Debbie
Luedke, Laura Baker, Tony Kraus,, Carol Alvey,
John Little, Pete Johnson, Tom Hayden, David Danhauer 1. Opening prayer led by John Little 2. Minutes from August 6 meeting were approved. 3. Due to guests making presentations during the evening, a formal agenda was not followed. Listed below are highlights of the meeting and ideas that were discussed. A. Todd Butler made a presentation on “radical stewardship.” Todd shared his experience of living and working in a Michigan parish that had a similar situation as to what we are facing at Sts. Joseph and Paul. They had a several thousand dollar shortfall after completion of a renovation and construction project. The parish acted in a “counter-intuitive” manner, which entailed taking two percent off the top of each weekend collection and giving that money to various groups and charities. Everything was free; there were no fundraisers. The main goal was complete trust in God and challenging all members to really be stewardship Catholics. After a period of several years, it completely changed the parish and it became a model that many parishes throughout the country have used in regards to stewardship. B. This led to a discussion of the Capital Campaign. A joint meeting of parish council, finance council and stewardship council members met on August 29. Minutes from this meeting were passed out. Three main recommendations were brought before the council:
The council agreed to these recommendations. It was also the general feeling that we begin the process of moving towards “radical stewardship.” C. This led to a discussion on the position of the Minister of Stewardship position. Wayne Naylor spoke to the council on this matter. Two groups have been meeting recently to discuss this position and to come up with a job description, which was passed out to council members. The council commended those who worked on this project. There was a consensus that this position is needed. We made a recommendation that the Finance Committee look into what we can offer in terms of salary and benefits. We want to make the package attractive enough to draw forth outstanding candidates. D. A Liturgical Schedule Commission is being developed to look into our Mass schedule. Fr. Carl will invite three people (Elaine Grant, Christy Butler and Wayne Naylor). The council was asked to also recommend three people. Our choices were Scott Ingram, Keith Hudson and Frank Mason. Other names were recommended if one or more of these cannot serve. Fr. Carl will meet with our Director of Hispanic Ministry in order to come up with a Hispanic representative to the commission. Fr. Carl and members of the Executive Committee will meet with the group the first time in order to lay out the foundation for discussion. E. Fr. Carl once again mentioned the resignation of our music director Mark Baehl. He will be meeting with individual choir members to discuss our future and what we need in the next director. He will also gather the same group who put together the Director of Stewardship job description in order to work on a job description for this position. An advertisement has already been placed in variety of national publications. 4. Due to the lateness of the meeting, all other items were tabled. 5. Closing prayer – everyone prayed the Our Father. 6. Carol Alvey will lead opening prayer at the October meeting. 7. The Continuing Education discussion will be led by Tony Kraus 8. Meeting concluded at 8:37 p.m. 9. The next council meeting will
be October 1, 2007
Respectfully submitted,
sdrose@bellsouth.net |