Parish Leadership Night  -  Council Minutes   

October 11, 2006

In Attendance: Ed Centofante, Lindsey McCormick, Sandy

Wood, Mark Daly,

Jeanne Wallace, Flo Petroski, Maureen

Durner, John Daly, Joe Amalfitano,

Michael Porter,

Megan Carmean, Linda Ruskin and Fr. Carroll

Excused:  Kate Hartman, Frank Hall

Absent: Greg Campbell, Allison Rowe

Council Agenda

A. Approval of September Minutes

* No additions, No corrections, Approved as written

B. Committee Highlights

Liturgy-

* October 21- Praise and Song at St. Elizabeth’s

* Rosary Night for Advent- Joyful mysteries

* Lent- Possible evening prayer service or mission

with the theme of “healing”

Parish and Family Life

*Sodality Bazaar- Nov. 11th- planning off to a great

start- many items already for

the raffle, many vendors

* Rosary on Oct. 4th- went well, good turn out

* Parish Picnic- went very well

- Thanks to Bob Ford

who gave a presentation

* Youth Group- World Youth Day 10/28- theme: Catholic

to the Core- We are the

hosts at Martinak State Park and have invited youth from around the area.

* Senior Luncheon- Oct. 20th- well planned under the

guidance of Cheryl

Carmean, Linda Nickum and Jill King

* Campus Ministry- currently 30 students in college, 4

in the military, 3 we have

not heard from

* looking into a speaker on Fiscal planning/Finances

for the family

Building and Grounds

* Thanks to Jim Bradley and Bill Madden- The side

steps to St. Elizabeth’s have

been repaired with new

pressure treated wood for the risers and a repainted

railing

* Painting of the eaves at St. Elizabeth’s- 80%

completed

* Help Wanted- If you have any squirrels in need of

acorns- please collect some

out front of St.

Benedict’s

* Frank Hall- Has people who will take an aerial map

quality digital photo of the

cemetery and road at St. Elizabeth’s to see how much room is available for a

wall.

Christian Formation

*Super Sunday November 5-”We pray for all the members

of our parish”  

We will have a saint focus with

witness talks and presentations of saints

* First reconciliation class has begun

Social Ministry

* Lobby night meeting was held- discussed how to get

better attendance

Habitat

* Dover Downs trash pick up went well - 10 people

helped out!

* Chicken Dinner planned for the Spring

* 3 breakfasts will be served- Feb., March and April

* We will be selling homemade soups after masses in

the near future.

Voice of the Homeless

*Two weekends in Nov. there will be a collection of

small items for the homeless

Special projects

*Voter registration -successful

* NUTS- Neighbors Untied To Serve will again be done.   We will again do green

beans.

St. Luke’s Church will provide the facility for

cooking, preparing and will

be the distributing point

C. Finance Report-

* We’re doing O.K.

* $1 under our weekly budget needs.

* We are meeting our expenses but have no extra money

to be prepared for

anything extra- If everyone could

give $2 extra a week we could increase the

offertory

by $400 a week.

* Thanks go to Tiffany Bingaman for the layout of our

Finance report and to

Charles Roller for the

printing!!!

D. Old Business

* Lent Theme- healing- We will do something with this

theme since everyone has

healing issues whether they

are spiritual, physical, emotional etc...

* Home School Religious Ed Policy- being looked at by

Christian Formation so

our home school religious Ed

only families have some accountability

E. New Business

* An Ad Hoc committee has been formed for Parish

Planning- to look towards the

future- They will gather

lots of information, answer fundamental questions and

report back to the Council.

* It would be great if we could earmark the Startt

family money towards a building

fund so we won’t be

assessed on the income it gets from the diocesan

account.

* John Nussear- Chair of Ad Hoc Committee

* Dave Jones, Tolbert Rowe, Ernie Blazejak committee

members

F. Pastors Report

* October 14- Harvest Dance

* October 15 – Confirmation Retreat

* Oct. 20- Senior Luncheon

* Oct. 21- Praise and Song- By Brian Zedalis, Kate

Hartman and Deana Teeter

* Oct. 23-27 Priests Retreat- No masses these days – Communion services

Fr. Carroll will be in contact with the Parish in case

he needs to return

*Oct. 28/29- World Youth Day

* Super Sunday Nov. 4th- Focus on Saints and Souls

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shape ourselves as to how

we want to be remembered

* New members to Finance Council- Marie Freeman and

Tolbert Rowe;

Thanks

to Tom Fleming for all his time and presence on

the council and as its

   Executive Officer for many years

G. Closing Prayer-

* Chapter 2 of United States Catholic Catechism for

Adults

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“God Comes to Meet Us”