Pastoral Council Minutes

September 2, 2008

Attending: Matt Bolton, Rose Braun, Fr. Mark Burger, Tate Cooper, Chris Gebhart, Jerry Koehne, Kevin Kohls, Debbie Meinhardt, Jane Mueninghoff, Cindy Muron, Joan Seibenick, Ray Sousa, Barb Utrata, Don West. Visitor(s): Michael Dailey

Preliminaries: The Council Meeting opened with the Pastoral Council Prayer at 7:00 p.m. Rose Braun led the reflection.

Agenda Items:

1. Approval of minutes from August meeting – all. The minutes were approved as written.
   
   
2. Music Ministry – Michael Dailey
   1. Overview of Activities and Current Topics. Michael reviewed the music ministry program at St. John. The new fall season is just beginning and there have been a number of changes within the ministries members, but overall it is a positive change. Praise teams are beginning to form, youth choir has lost several members due to graduations but gained others.
      
      

1. Annual Items - All
   
   
   1. Council roster – finalized and distributed, anyone who did not receive a copy please contact Rose
      
      
   2. Bylaw annual review – no changes were received on the bylaws, the deadline for submitting recommendations for changes has been extended to 9/10/08, if there are no recommendations for changes the bylaws will remain unchanged from the last revision date 9/5/06.
      
      
   3. Pastoral Council Covenants – copies of the covenant were distributed and reviewed to members who missed the prior meeting. Copies were returned to all in attendance who signed in August.
      
      
   4. 2008 – 2009 Calendar planning – a copy of the schedule for the current council year was distributed, a final copy will be distributed.
      
      
   5. Officer Discernment – Fr. Mark facilitated the discernment, encouraged members to express thoughts for themselves or others who might provide leadership to our group and then from those discussed how one might feel called to this role. Rose Braun and Cindy Muron were discerned for a 2nd year in their roles as facilitator and co-facilitator.
      
      
2. Fr. Mark’s Comments – asked us to give some thought to a “parish congress” bringing the parish together to be a parish – involves no fundraising, but is 3-4 events, possibly held over a weekend, may include a picnic, might have a theme, something to bring everyone together and take away the “bigness” of our parish. Start thinking about some ideas how we might be able to orchestrate something like this.

Adjournment and Closing Prayer of Thanksgiving – Bart Utrata

Next Meeting: Monday, Oct. 6, 2008 at 7:00 p.m. in the Undercroft Rooms D&E.