Social Ministries Commission Minutes from August 3, 2009
Attendance: John Dettmen, Sean Ater, Sherrie Heyse, Fred Heyse, Teri Fox, Tom Monaco, Margaret Stepp, Carol Kelly, Kathy Weyer, Sue Keefe, Dave Scharfenberger, Jerry Metz and Debbie Metz
Opening Prayer/Formation DVD of Cultural Center Batahola Norte & Prayer
Minutes The minutes were approved.
Announcements It was announced that Rich Delcore will be our new liaison. Sue asked each member to invite someone to Social Ministries Commission. We need to expand our commission as well as develop additional leadership.
Special Report on Foreclosures Dave Scharfenberger of WIN reported on WIN’s efforts to track foreclosure and homes that were lost. WIN has been doing housing counseling. Housing counselors can talk to your mortgage company for you. They can often work out plans to stop foreclosures. Counselors have access to emergency assistance money. WIN has also been doing workshops at parishes in conjunction with the Archdiocesan Catholic Social Action Parish Collaborative. Thsey have been well attended.
Ongoing Reports:
Water Debbie reported new information regarding water projects. Research has shown that millions die annually from contaminated water sources, but children are especially vulnerable. However, when considering supporting a water project, sustainability is crucial. Children are worse off when they have good water for a period of time and then lose it. Many projects in Africa done by organizations with good intentions are now non-functional and have been detrimental to the health of the children.
Collections Christmas in July Sherrie reported that we did well including approx. $2625 in gift cards.
Coin Collection Judy’s report is attached.
Stewards of God’s Creation Sherrie reported that Bruce Burno will be assuming chair responsibilities.
Our Lady of the Mountains Judy’s report is attached.
Immigration Margaret reported that Sissy an immigrant mother for whom the community has been praying was reunited with her family. Additionally, Margaret reported that Pope Benedict spoke out on the importance of keeping families together. Prayer services are being planned to focus on immigration issues.
Empowerment Fund Danny Burridge, a parishioner who we have supported win his mission work will be speaking at the Masses on August 22nd and 23rd to ask for prayer and financial assistance for the organization for which he has been working called the Volunteer Missionary Movement. His project is called the Mission Cooperative Plan.
· $500 was recommended for Missionaries of Jesus-Fr. Greg Domilies in Papua New Guinea
· $1000 was recommended for Our Lady of the Mountains Mom’s Nutrition Program.
It was decided to revisit the guidelines for the empowerment fund at the September meeting
Child Protection Kathy reported that the monthly fingerprinting will take place during the school open house. The update class will be held Tuesday August 11th at 7:00. There are 1400 names on our list and many need the update class. Connections a Caring Place is having a rocking chair fundraiser.
Salt and Light Judy’s report is attached.
Twinning Sue reported the trip to Nicaragua was another wonderful experience with the Holy Spirit. Jim Berning gave out 8 hearing aides after working with an audiologist from Managua. The puppet show and puppet making was well received by all the children. The puppets will be used during Story Hour at the library and for the theater classes. The Field Day had over 100 children and youth. The people of the Center were wonderful as always so loving to all of us. Buzz Auvil, Jeannine Blatt and Pat Berning were fun loving participants. There are 23 people who have stated they are interested in next year’s trip
June 10-17. Fr. Tom is thinking of going as well.
Car-X donations to Food from the Heart Sue reported that Car-X will be going $10 coupons for can goods and non-perishable grocery items that are brought to their shops.
Pledge of Nonviolence Teri Fox will coordinate again this year. It will be at Masses on Oct. 3rd and 4th.
Goals and Objectives 2009-2010 Three objectives are being developed for Pastoral Council. hopefully we will have them done by August 1. Fr. Tom has asked us to work on the economic crisis, so that will be one of our objectives. We will be working with St. Vincent de Paul, IHM Job Search Ministry, and the Social Action Collaborative on Foreclosures. Kathy is developing one for child protection. Sue is working with Allison Groetsch and Jane Elfers on another objective for respect of all life. Allison Groetsch has resigned as chair of Respect LIfe but will continue to work with the ministry.
Commission Chair Sue will be stepping down as Social Ministries Advisory Comission chair.
From Sue’s report to the members:
A bit of Social Ministries history:
Louise Lawarre chair over 10 years, Sue Keefe chair 3 years, Pat Berning chair 5
years, Judy O’Brien chair 2 years, Sue Keefe chair 3 years and current chair.
Sherrie Heyse has been assisting me for several years with the Collections and articles for the Heartbeat for which I am ever thankful. This is my last year to chair SMC. We will have discernment in June to determine a new chair or co-chairs for our ministry. I am eager to continue being on the commission and coordinating the Multicultural Mass, Living a Faith that Does Justice, Journey to Justice and our twinning activities with Cultural Center Batahola Norte. Please pray about this. I will send out a list of responsibilities for the chair so that we all know what it entails.
All committee reports emailed to chairperson 5 days before meeting to be sent as an attachment. All reports will be read at the meeting if committee chair is not present.
Next meeting September 14 7:15pm due to Labor Day Sept. 7.
Social Ministries Calendar 2009-10
Christmas in July July 11-12, 2009, July 10-11, 2010
School House Collection August 8-9, 2009
Used Coat Collection October 10-11, 2009
Giving Tree December 5-6, 2009, tags placed 3 weeks before
Undee Sunday January 23-24, 2010
Project 5000 February 20-21, 2010
Baby Shower May 8-9, 2010
Mission Trip to Cultural Center Batahola Norte, Managua June
11-17, 2010
Batahola Garage Sale May 1, 2010 (gym and cafeteria)
Fundraiser for Batahola May 15, 2010 (gym) 8am-11:30pm
Multicultural Mass October 18, 2009 6pm
Living a Faith that Does Justice Dinner February 1, 2010 Heritage
West
Salt and Light October 7-November 4 7:30pm (Heritage West)
PRP /Sunday Social Forums January 10 and February 14 10-11am
(Heritage West)
Journey to Justice March 13-14, 2010 9-5, 9-11:30 (Holy Family
Room)
1/2 Day Workshop Mission Trip May 22, 2010 (Holy Family Room)
Pledge of Nonviolence October 3-4, 2009
Stewards of Children Workshop November 11, 2009 and March 3,
2010 Heritage West
Respect Life 4000 Crosses October 24-November 7, 2009
Respect Life Memorial Service/Mass - January 20, 2010 church
booked
Social Ministries Retreat January 9, 2009 9-12 Sean Ater Hageman
Interfaith Hospitality Network, Anderson Hills Methodist Church
2009: August 9-15, September 27-October 3, December 6-12 rest of
dates to be announced.
City Gospel Mission Soup Kitchen 2009: June 17, July 15,
August 12, September 16, October 21, November 18, December 16,
January 20, February 17, March 17, April 21, May 19
Walnut Hills Soup Kitchen 2009: June 28, August 23, October 25,
February 28, 2010, April 25,2010,
Fair Trade Coffee 2nd weekend of the month
Food from the Heart weekend before the 3rd Monday each month
Judy’s Reports for August Social Ministries Meeting
Our Lady of the Mountains
Since the June meeting Vacation Bible School had OLM come and be part of Mission Day. Each class had the opportunity to meet with Sr. Mary Jane and hear about OLM. She brought pictures for the kids to see and brochures for them to take home. The kids brought in socks and underwear and coins for a monetary gift. They collected 10 laundry baskets of socks and underwear and $189 in coins.
On July 11th about 10 of us made the trip down to Stanton for a retreat day. We were a smaller group than expected because of illnesses. Fr. Fritsch talked on spirituality and the environment. OLM served us a wonderful lunch with the best-fried chicken I have ever tasted.
I had the opportunity to go down for the second day of the socks and underwear giveaway with three of my granddaughters. It was a very good day. This year they had about 150 people sign up which is 50 more than usual so the help from Vacation Bible School and others was extremely helpful.
The this time we would like to go to Pastoral Council with a proposal for going forward on working toward a formal twinning relationship.
Salt and Light
Salt and Light has been advertised in the Bulletin and I will continue to do that. I will put an article in the Heartbeat. Sean will give the info to other DREs in the area.
I plan to start inviting individuals personally and hope others will also. We will advertise it at the Ministry Fair also.
Ministry Fair
My idea for Ministry Fair is to give a door prize so people have a reason to stop at our table. We would make up a basket and put in it products representing each of our ministries with a note attached explaining the connection. The items would be items people could use. It could contain such things as something from Batahola, an energy efficient light bulb, cans of food, something from OLM, maybe a container of some kind with coins in it etc, those types of things. Also I am trying to get us two tables since we represent so many ministries and need the space. I think we should use less big board displays and instead, as much as possible, put individual pictures with the name of each ministry and sign up sheets for each one. That would allow us to stand behind the table and talk to folks more easily
.Coin Collection
The coin collection is up since we started advertising more. The last two weeks it has really been up. Hopefully in the fall we can work with the school and PRP kids to bring it up even more. My aim would be a consistent $150 each week.
Social Ministries Commission Minutes from August 3, 2009
Attendance: John Dettmen, Sean Ater, Sherrie Heyse, Fred Heyse, Teri Fox, Tom Monaco, Margaret Stepp, Carol Kelly, Kathy Weyer, Sue Keefe, Dave Scharfenberger, Jerry Metz and Debbie Metz
Opening Prayer/Formation DVD of Cultural Center Batahola Norte & Prayer
Minutes The minutes were approved.
Announcements It was announced that Rich Delcore will be our new liaison. Sue asked each member to invite someone to Social Ministries Commission. We need to expand our commission as well as develop additional leadership.
Special Report on Foreclosures Dave Scharfenberger of WIN reported on WIN’s efforts to track foreclosure and homes that were lost. WIN has been doing housing counseling. Housing counselors can talk to your mortgage company for you. They can often work out plans to stop foreclosures. Counselors have access to emergency assistance money. WIN has also been doing workshops at parishes in conjunction with the Archdiocesan Catholic Social Action Parish Collaborative. Thsey have been well attended.
Ongoing Reports:
Water Debbie reported new information regarding water projects. Research has shown that millions die annually from contaminated water sources, but children are especially vulnerable. However, when considering supporting a water project, sustainability is crucial. Children are worse off when they have good water for a period of time and then lose it. Many projects in Africa done by organizations with good intentions are now non-functional and have been detrimental to the health of the children.
Collections Christmas in July Sherrie reported that we did well including approx. $2625 in gift cards.
Coin Collection Judy’s report is attached.
Stewards of God’s Creation Sherrie reported that Bruce Burno will be assuming chair responsibilities.
Our Lady of the Mountains Judy’s report is attached.
Immigration Margaret reported that Sissy an immigrant mother for whom the community has been praying was reunited with her family. Additionally, Margaret reported that Pope Benedict spoke out on the importance of keeping families together. Prayer services are being planned to focus on immigration issues.
Empowerment Fund Danny Burridge, a parishioner who we have supported win his mission work will be speaking at the Masses on August 22nd and 23rd to ask for prayer and financial assistance for the organization for which he has been working called the Volunteer Missionary Movement. His project is called the Mission Cooperative Plan.
· $500 was recommended for Missionaries of Jesus-Fr. Greg Domilies in Papua New Guinea
· $1000 was recommended for Our Lady of the Mountains Mom’s Nutrition Program.
It was decided to revisit the guidelines for the empowerment fund at the September meeting
Child Protection Kathy reported that the monthly fingerprinting will take place during the school open house. The update class will be held Tuesday August 11th at 7:00. There are 1400 names on our list and many need the update class. Connections a Caring Place is having a rocking chair fundraiser.
Salt and Light Judy’s report is attached.
Twinning Sue reported the trip to Nicaragua was another wonderful experience with the Holy Spirit. Jim Berning gave out 8 hearing aides after working with an audiologist from Managua. The puppet show and puppet making was well received by all the children. The puppets will be used during Story Hour at the library and for the theater classes. The Field Day had over 100 children and youth. The people of the Center were wonderful as always so loving to all of us. Buzz Auvil, Jeannine Blatt and Pat Berning were fun loving participants. There are 23 people who have stated they are interested in next year’s trip
June 10-17. Fr. Tom is thinking of going as well.
Car-X donations to Food from the Heart Sue reported that Car-X will be going $10 coupons for can goods and non-perishable grocery items that are brought to their shops.
Pledge of Nonviolence Teri Fox will coordinate again this year. It will be at Masses on Oct. 3rd and 4th.
Goals and Objectives 2009-2010 Three objectives are being developed for Pastoral Council. hopefully we will have them done by August 1. Fr. Tom has asked us to work on the economic crisis, so that will be one of our objectives. We will be working with St. Vincent de Paul, IHM Job Search Ministry, and the Social Action Collaborative on Foreclosures. Kathy is developing one for child protection. Sue is working with Allison Groetsch and Jane Elfers on another objective for respect of all life. Allison Groetsch has resigned as chair of Respect LIfe but will continue to work with the ministry.
Commission Chair Sue will be stepping down as Social Ministries Advisory Comission chair.
From Sue’s report to the members:
A bit of Social Ministries history:
Louise Lawarre chair over 10 years, Sue Keefe chair 3 years, Pat Berning chair 5
years, Judy O’Brien chair 2 years, Sue Keefe chair 3 years and current chair.
Sherrie Heyse has been assisting me for several years with the Collections and articles for the Heartbeat for which I am ever thankful. This is my last year to chair SMC. We will have discernment in June to determine a new chair or co-chairs for our ministry. I am eager to continue being on the commission and coordinating the Multicultural Mass, Living a Faith that Does Justice, Journey to Justice and our twinning activities with Cultural Center Batahola Norte. Please pray about this. I will send out a list of responsibilities for the chair so that we all know what it entails.
All committee reports emailed to chairperson 5 days before meeting to be sent as an attachment. All reports will be read at the meeting if committee chair is not present.
Next meeting September 14 7:15pm due to Labor Day Sept. 7.
Social Ministries Calendar 2009-10
Christmas in July July 11-12, 2009, July 10-11, 2010
School House Collection August 8-9, 2009
Used Coat Collection October 10-11, 2009
Giving Tree December 5-6, 2009, tags placed 3 weeks before
Undee Sunday January 23-24, 2010
Project 5000 February 20-21, 2010
Baby Shower May 8-9, 2010
Mission Trip to Cultural Center Batahola Norte, Managua June
11-17, 2010
Batahola Garage Sale May 1, 2010 (gym and cafeteria)
Fundraiser for Batahola May 15, 2010 (gym) 8am-11:30pm
Multicultural Mass October 18, 2009 6pm
Living a Faith that Does Justice Dinner February 1, 2010 Heritage
West
Salt and Light October 7-November 4 7:30pm (Heritage West)
PRP /Sunday Social Forums January 10 and February 14 10-11am
(Heritage West)
Journey to Justice March 13-14, 2010 9-5, 9-11:30 (Holy Family
Room)
1/2 Day Workshop Mission Trip May 22, 2010 (Holy Family Room)
Pledge of Nonviolence October 3-4, 2009
Stewards of Children Workshop November 11, 2009 and March 3,
2010 Heritage West
Respect Life 4000 Crosses October 24-November 7, 2009
Respect Life Memorial Service/Mass - January 20, 2010 church
booked
Social Ministries Retreat January 9, 2009 9-12 Sean Ater Hageman
Interfaith Hospitality Network, Anderson Hills Methodist Church
2009: August 9-15, September 27-October 3, December 6-12 rest of
dates to be announced.
City Gospel Mission Soup Kitchen 2009: June 17, July 15,
August 12, September 16, October 21, November 18, December 16,
January 20, February 17, March 17, April 21, May 19
Walnut Hills Soup Kitchen 2009: June 28, August 23, October 25,
February 28, 2010, April 25,2010,
Fair Trade Coffee 2nd weekend of the month
Food from the Heart weekend before the 3rd Monday each month
Judy’s Reports for August Social Ministries Meeting
Our Lady of the Mountains
Since the June meeting Vacation Bible School had OLM come and be part of Mission Day. Each class had the opportunity to meet with Sr. Mary Jane and hear about OLM. She brought pictures for the kids to see and brochures for them to take home. The kids brought in socks and underwear and coins for a monetary gift. They collected 10 laundry baskets of socks and underwear and $189 in coins.
On July 11th about 10 of us made the trip down to Stanton for a retreat day. We were a smaller group than expected because of illnesses. Fr. Fritsch talked on spirituality and the environment. OLM served us a wonderful lunch with the best-fried chicken I have ever tasted.
I had the opportunity to go down for the second day of the socks and underwear giveaway with three of my granddaughters. It was a very good day. This year they had about 150 people sign up which is 50 more than usual so the help from Vacation Bible School and others was extremely helpful.
The this time we would like to go to Pastoral Council with a proposal for going forward on working toward a formal twinning relationship.
Salt and Light
Salt and Light has been advertised in the Bulletin and I will continue to do that. I will put an article in the Heartbeat. Sean will give the info to other DREs in the area.
I plan to start inviting individuals personally and hope others will also. We will advertise it at the Ministry Fair also.
Ministry Fair
My idea for Ministry Fair is to give a door prize so people have a reason to stop at our table. We would make up a basket and put in it products representing each of our ministries with a note attached explaining the connection. The items would be items people could use. It could contain such things as something from Batahola, an energy efficient light bulb, cans of food, something from OLM, maybe a container of some kind with coins in it etc, those types of things. Also I am trying to get us two tables since we represent so many ministries and need the space. I think we should use less big board displays and instead, as much as possible, put individual pictures with the name of each ministry and sign up sheets for each one. That would allow us to stand behind the table and talk to folks more easily
.Coin Collection
The coin collection is up since we started advertising more. The last two weeks it has really been up. Hopefully in the fall we can work with the school and PRP kids to bring it up even more. My aim would be a consistent $150 each week.
Social Ministries Commission Minutes from August 3, 2009
Attendance: John Dettmen, Sean Ater, Sherrie Heyse, Fred Heyse, Teri Fox, Tom Monaco, Margaret Stepp, Carol Kelly, Kathy Weyer, Sue Keefe, Dave Scharfenberger, Jerry Metz and Debbie Metz
Opening Prayer/Formation DVD of Cultural Center Batahola Norte & Prayer
Minutes The minutes were approved.
Announcements It was announced that Rich Delcore will be our new liaison. Sue asked each member to invite someone to Social Ministries Commission. We need to expand our commission as well as develop additional leadership.
Special Report on Foreclosures Dave Scharfenberger of WIN reported on WIN’s efforts to track foreclosure and homes that were lost. WIN has been doing housing counseling. Housing counselors can talk to your mortgage company for you. They can often work out plans to stop foreclosures. Counselors have access to emergency assistance money. WIN has also been doing workshops at parishes in conjunction with the Archdiocesan Catholic Social Action Parish Collaborative. Thsey have been well attended.
Ongoing Reports:
Water Debbie reported new information regarding water projects. Research has shown that millions die annually from contaminated water sources, but children are especially vulnerable. However, when considering supporting a water project, sustainability is crucial. Children are worse off when they have good water for a period of time and then lose it. Many projects in Africa done by organizations with good intentions are now non-functional and have been detrimental to the health of the children.
Collections Christmas in July Sherrie reported that we did well including approx. $2625 in gift cards.
Coin Collection Judy’s report is attached.
Stewards of God’s Creation Sherrie reported that Bruce Burno will be assuming chair responsibilities.
Our Lady of the Mountains Judy’s report is attached.
Immigration Margaret reported that Sissy an immigrant mother for whom the community has been praying was reunited with her family. Additionally, Margaret reported that Pope Benedict spoke out on the importance of keeping families together. Prayer services are being planned to focus on immigration issues.
Empowerment Fund Danny Burridge, a parishioner who we have supported win his mission work will be speaking at the Masses on August 22nd and 23rd to ask for prayer and financial assistance for the organization for which he has been working called the Volunteer Missionary Movement. His project is called the Mission Cooperative Plan.
· $500 was recommended for Missionaries of Jesus-Fr. Greg Domilies in Papua New Guinea
· $1000 was recommended for Our Lady of the Mountains Mom’s Nutrition Program.
It was decided to revisit the guidelines for the empowerment fund at the September meeting
Child Protection Kathy reported that the monthly fingerprinting will take place during the school open house. The update class will be held Tuesday August 11th at 7:00. There are 1400 names on our list and many need the update class. Connections a Caring Place is having a rocking chair fundraiser.
Salt and Light Judy’s report is attached.
Twinning Sue reported the trip to Nicaragua was another wonderful experience with the Holy Spirit. Jim Berning gave out 8 hearing aides after working with an audiologist from Managua. The puppet show and puppet making was well received by all the children. The puppets will be used during Story Hour at the library and for the theater classes. The Field Day had over 100 children and youth. The people of the Center were wonderful as always so loving to all of us. Buzz Auvil, Jeannine Blatt and Pat Berning were fun loving participants. There are 23 people who have stated they are interested in next year’s trip
June 10-17. Fr. Tom is thinking of going as well.
Car-X donations to Food from the Heart Sue reported that Car-X will be going $10 coupons for can goods and non-perishable grocery items that are brought to their shops.
Pledge of Nonviolence Teri Fox will coordinate again this year. It will be at Masses on Oct. 3rd and 4th.
Goals and Objectives 2009-2010 Three objectives are being developed for Pastoral Council. hopefully we will have them done by August 1. Fr. Tom has asked us to work on the economic crisis, so that will be one of our objectives. We will be working with St. Vincent de Paul, IHM Job Search Ministry, and the Social Action Collaborative on Foreclosures. Kathy is developing one for child protection. Sue is working with Allison Groetsch and Jane Elfers on another objective for respect of all life. Allison Groetsch has resigned as chair of Respect LIfe but will continue to work with the ministry.
Commission Chair Sue will be stepping down as Social Ministries Advisory Comission chair.
From Sue’s report to the members:
A bit of Social Ministries history:
Louise Lawarre chair over 10 years, Sue Keefe chair 3 years, Pat Berning chair 5
years, Judy O’Brien chair 2 years, Sue Keefe chair 3 years and current chair.
Sherrie Heyse has been assisting me for several years with the Collections and articles for the Heartbeat for which I am ever thankful. This is my last year to chair SMC. We will have discernment in June to determine a new chair or co-chairs for our ministry. I am eager to continue being on the commission and coordinating the Multicultural Mass, Living a Faith that Does Justice, Journey to Justice and our twinning activities with Cultural Center Batahola Norte. Please pray about this. I will send out a list of responsibilities for the chair so that we all know what it entails.
All committee reports emailed to chairperson 5 days before meeting to be sent as an attachment. All reports will be read at the meeting if committee chair is not present.
Next meeting September 14 7:15pm due to Labor Day Sept. 7.
Social Ministries Calendar 2009-10
Christmas in July July 11-12, 2009, July 10-11, 2010
School House Collection August 8-9, 2009
Used Coat Collection October 10-11, 2009
Giving Tree December 5-6, 2009, tags placed 3 weeks before
Undee Sunday January 23-24, 2010
Project 5000 February 20-21, 2010
Baby Shower May 8-9, 2010
Mission Trip to Cultural Center Batahola Norte, Managua June
11-17, 2010
Batahola Garage Sale May 1, 2010 (gym and cafeteria)
Fundraiser for Batahola May 15, 2010 (gym) 8am-11:30pm
Multicultural Mass October 18, 2009 6pm
Living a Faith that Does Justice Dinner February 1, 2010 Heritage
West
Salt and Light October 7-November 4 7:30pm (Heritage West)
PRP /Sunday Social Forums January 10 and February 14 10-11am
(Heritage West)
Journey to Justice March 13-14, 2010 9-5, 9-11:30 (Holy Family
Room)
1/2 Day Workshop Mission Trip May 22, 2010 (Holy Family Room)
Pledge of Nonviolence October 3-4, 2009
Stewards of Children Workshop November 11, 2009 and March 3,
2010 Heritage West
Respect Life 4000 Crosses October 24-November 7, 2009
Respect Life Memorial Service/Mass - January 20, 2010 church
booked
Social Ministries Retreat January 9, 2009 9-12 Sean Ater Hageman
Interfaith Hospitality Network, Anderson Hills Methodist Church
2009: August 9-15, September 27-October 3, December 6-12 rest of
dates to be announced.
City Gospel Mission Soup Kitchen 2009: June 17, July 15,
August 12, September 16, October 21, November 18, December 16,
January 20, February 17, March 17, April 21, May 19
Walnut Hills Soup Kitchen 2009: June 28, August 23, October 25,
February 28, 2010, April 25,2010,
Fair Trade Coffee 2nd weekend of the month
Food from the Heart weekend before the 3rd Monday each month
Judy’s Reports for August Social Ministries Meeting
Our Lady of the Mountains
Since the June meeting Vacation Bible School had OLM come and be part of Mission Day. Each class had the opportunity to meet with Sr. Mary Jane and hear about OLM. She brought pictures for the kids to see and brochures for them to take home. The kids brought in socks and underwear and coins for a monetary gift. They collected 10 laundry baskets of socks and underwear and $189 in coins.
On July 11th about 10 of us made the trip down to Stanton for a retreat day. We were a smaller group than expected because of illnesses. Fr. Fritsch talked on spirituality and the environment. OLM served us a wonderful lunch with the best-fried chicken I have ever tasted.
I had the opportunity to go down for the second day of the socks and underwear giveaway with three of my granddaughters. It was a very good day. This year they had about 150 people sign up which is 50 more than usual so the help from Vacation Bible School and others was extremely helpful.
The this time we would like to go to Pastoral Council with a proposal for going forward on working toward a formal twinning relationship.
Salt and Light
Salt and Light has been advertised in the Bulletin and I will continue to do that. I will put an article in the Heartbeat. Sean will give the info to other DREs in the area.
I plan to start inviting individuals personally and hope others will also. We will advertise it at the Ministry Fair also.
Ministry Fair
My idea for Ministry Fair is to give a door prize so people have a reason to stop at our table. We would make up a basket and put in it products representing each of our ministries with a note attached explaining the connection. The items would be items people could use. It could contain such things as something from Batahola, an energy efficient light bulb, cans of food, something from OLM, maybe a container of some kind with coins in it etc, those types of things. Also I am trying to get us two tables since we represent so many ministries and need the space. I think we should use less big board displays and instead, as much as possible, put individual pictures with the name of each ministry and sign up sheets for each one. That would allow us to stand behind the table and talk to folks more easily
.Coin Collection
The coin collection is up since we started advertising more. The last two weeks it has really been up. Hopefully in the fall we can work with the school and PRP kids to bring it up even more. My aim would be a consistent $150 each week.
Social Ministries Commission Minutes from August 3, 2009
Attendance: John Dettmen, Sean Ater, Sherrie Heyse, Fred Heyse, Teri Fox, Tom Monaco, Margaret Stepp, Carol Kelly, Kathy Weyer, Sue Keefe, Dave Scharfenberger, Jerry Metz and Debbie Metz
Opening Prayer/Formation DVD of Cultural Center Batahola Norte & Prayer
Minutes The minutes were approved.
Announcements It was announced that Rich Delcore will be our new liaison. Sue asked each member to invite someone to Social Ministries Commission. We need to expand our commission as well as develop additional leadership.
Special Report on Foreclosures Dave Scharfenberger of WIN reported on WIN’s efforts to track foreclosure and homes that were lost. WIN has been doing housing counseling. Housing counselors can talk to your mortgage company for you. They can often work out plans to stop foreclosures. Counselors have access to emergency assistance money. WIN has also been doing workshops at parishes in conjunction with the Archdiocesan Catholic Social Action Parish Collaborative. Thsey have been well attended.
Ongoing Reports:
Water Debbie reported new information regarding water projects. Research has shown that millions die annually from contaminated water sources, but children are especially vulnerable. However, when considering supporting a water project, sustainability is crucial. Children are worse off when they have good water for a period of time and then lose it. Many projects in Africa done by organizations with good intentions are now non-functional and have been detrimental to the health of the children.
Collections Christmas in July Sherrie reported that we did well including approx. $2625 in gift cards.
Coin Collection Judy’s report is attached.
Stewards of God’s Creation Sherrie reported that Bruce Burno will be assuming chair responsibilities.
Our Lady of the Mountains Judy’s report is attached.
Immigration Margaret reported that Sissy an immigrant mother for whom the community has been praying was reunited with her family. Additionally, Margaret reported that Pope Benedict spoke out on the importance of keeping families together. Prayer services are being planned to focus on immigration issues.
Empowerment Fund Danny Burridge, a parishioner who we have supported win his mission work will be speaking at the Masses on August 22nd and 23rd to ask for prayer and financial assistance for the organization for which he has been working called the Volunteer Missionary Movement. His project is called the Mission Cooperative Plan.
· $500 was recommended for Missionaries of Jesus-Fr. Greg Domilies in Papua New Guinea
· $1000 was recommended for Our Lady of the Mountains Mom’s Nutrition Program.
It was decided to revisit the guidelines for the empowerment fund at the September meeting
Child Protection Kathy reported that the monthly fingerprinting will take place during the school open house. The update class will be held Tuesday August 11th at 7:00. There are 1400 names on our list and many need the update class. Connections a Caring Place is having a rocking chair fundraiser.
Salt and Light Judy’s report is attached.
Twinning Sue reported the trip to Nicaragua was another wonderful experience with the Holy Spirit. Jim Berning gave out 8 hearing aides after working with an audiologist from Managua. The puppet show and puppet making was well received by all the children. The puppets will be used during Story Hour at the library and for the theater classes. The Field Day had over 100 children and youth. The people of the Center were wonderful as always so loving to all of us. Buzz Auvil, Jeannine Blatt and Pat Berning were fun loving participants. There are 23 people who have stated they are interested in next year’s trip
June 10-17. Fr. Tom is thinking of going as well.
Car-X donations to Food from the Heart Sue reported that Car-X will be going $10 coupons for can goods and non-perishable grocery items that are brought to their shops.
Pledge of Nonviolence Teri Fox will coordinate again this year. It will be at Masses on Oct. 3rd and 4th.
Goals and Objectives 2009-2010 Three objectives are being developed for Pastoral Council. hopefully we will have them done by August 1. Fr. Tom has asked us to work on the economic crisis, so that will be one of our objectives. We will be working with St. Vincent de Paul, IHM Job Search Ministry, and the Social Action Collaborative on Foreclosures. Kathy is developing one for child protection. Sue is working with Allison Groetsch and Jane Elfers on another objective for respect of all life. Allison Groetsch has resigned as chair of Respect LIfe but will continue to work with the ministry.
Commission Chair Sue will be stepping down as Social Ministries Advisory Comission chair.
From Sue’s report to the members:
A bit of Social Ministries history:
Louise Lawarre chair over 10 years, Sue Keefe chair 3 years, Pat Berning chair 5
years, Judy O’Brien chair 2 years, Sue Keefe chair 3 years and current chair.
Sherrie Heyse has been assisting me for several years with the Collections and articles for the Heartbeat for which I am ever thankful. This is my last year to chair SMC. We will have discernment in June to determine a new chair or co-chairs for our ministry. I am eager to continue being on the commission and coordinating the Multicultural Mass, Living a Faith that Does Justice, Journey to Justice and our twinning activities with Cultural Center Batahola Norte. Please pray about this. I will send out a list of responsibilities for the chair so that we all know what it entails.
All committee reports emailed to chairperson 5 days before meeting to be sent as an attachment. All reports will be read at the meeting if committee chair is not present.
Next meeting September 14 7:15pm due to Labor Day Sept. 7.
Social Ministries Calendar 2009-10
Christmas in July July 11-12, 2009, July 10-11, 2010
School House Collection August 8-9, 2009
Used Coat Collection October 10-11, 2009
Giving Tree December 5-6, 2009, tags placed 3 weeks before
Undee Sunday January 23-24, 2010
Project 5000 February 20-21, 2010
Baby Shower May 8-9, 2010
Mission Trip to Cultural Center Batahola Norte, Managua June
11-17, 2010
Batahola Garage Sale May 1, 2010 (gym and cafeteria)
Fundraiser for Batahola May 15, 2010 (gym) 8am-11:30pm
Multicultural Mass October 18, 2009 6pm
Living a Faith that Does Justice Dinner February 1, 2010 Heritage
West
Salt and Light October 7-November 4 7:30pm (Heritage West)
PRP /Sunday Social Forums January 10 and February 14 10-11am
(Heritage West)
Journey to Justice March 13-14, 2010 9-5, 9-11:30 (Holy Family
Room)
1/2 Day Workshop Mission Trip May 22, 2010 (Holy Family Room)
Pledge of Nonviolence October 3-4, 2009
Stewards of Children Workshop November 11, 2009 and March 3,
2010 Heritage West
Respect Life 4000 Crosses October 24-November 7, 2009
Respect Life Memorial Service/Mass - January 20, 2010 church
booked
Social Ministries Retreat January 9, 2009 9-12 Sean Ater Hageman
Interfaith Hospitality Network, Anderson Hills Methodist Church
2009: August 9-15, September 27-October 3, December 6-12 rest of
dates to be announced.
City Gospel Mission Soup Kitchen 2009: June 17, July 15,
August 12, September 16, October 21, November 18, December 16,
January 20, February 17, March 17, April 21, May 19
Walnut Hills Soup Kitchen 2009: June 28, August 23, October 25,
February 28, 2010, April 25,2010,
Fair Trade Coffee 2nd weekend of the month
Food from the Heart weekend before the 3rd Monday each month
Judy’s Reports for August Social Ministries Meeting
Our Lady of the Mountains
Since the June meeting Vacation Bible School had OLM come and be part of Mission Day. Each class had the opportunity to meet with Sr. Mary Jane and hear about OLM. She brought pictures for the kids to see and brochures for them to take home. The kids brought in socks and underwear and coins for a monetary gift. They collected 10 laundry baskets of socks and underwear and $189 in coins.
On July 11th about 10 of us made the trip down to Stanton for a retreat day. We were a smaller group than expected because of illnesses. Fr. Fritsch talked on spirituality and the environment. OLM served us a wonderful lunch with the best-fried chicken I have ever tasted.
I had the opportunity to go down for the second day of the socks and underwear giveaway with three of my granddaughters. It was a very good day. This year they had about 150 people sign up which is 50 more than usual so the help from Vacation Bible School and others was extremely helpful.
The this time we would like to go to Pastoral Council with a proposal for going forward on working toward a formal twinning relationship.
Salt and Light
Salt and Light has been advertised in the Bulletin and I will continue to do that. I will put an article in the Heartbeat. Sean will give the info to other DREs in the area.
I plan to start inviting individuals personally and hope others will also. We will advertise it at the Ministry Fair also.
Ministry Fair
My idea for Ministry Fair is to give a door prize so people have a reason to stop at our table. We would make up a basket and put in it products representing each of our ministries with a note attached explaining the connection. The items would be items people could use. It could contain such things as something from Batahola, an energy efficient light bulb, cans of food, something from OLM, maybe a container of some kind with coins in it etc, those types of things. Also I am trying to get us two tables since we represent so many ministries and need the space. I think we should use less big board displays and instead, as much as possible, put individual pictures with the name of each ministry and sign up sheets for each one. That would allow us to stand behind the table and talk to folks more easily
.Coin Collection
The coin collection is up since we started advertising more. The last two weeks it has really been up. Hopefully in the fall we can work with the school and PRP kids to bring it up even more. My aim would be a consistent $150 each week.
Social Ministries Commission Minutes from August 3, 2009
Attendance: John Dettmen, Sean Ater, Sherrie Heyse, Fred Heyse, Teri Fox, Tom Monaco, Margaret Stepp, Carol Kelly, Kathy Weyer, Sue Keefe, Dave Scharfenberger, Jerry Metz and Debbie Metz
Opening Prayer/Formation DVD of Cultural Center Batahola Norte & Prayer
Minutes The minutes were approved.
Announcements It was announced that Rich Delcore will be our new liaison. Sue asked each member to invite someone to Social Ministries Commission. We need to expand our commission as well as develop additional leadership.
Special Report on Foreclosures Dave Scharfenberger of WIN reported on WIN’s efforts to track foreclosure and homes that were lost. WIN has been doing housing counseling. Housing counselors can talk to your mortgage company for you. They can often work out plans to stop foreclosures. Counselors have access to emergency assistance money. WIN has also been doing workshops at parishes in conjunction with the Archdiocesan Catholic Social Action Parish Collaborative. Thsey have been well attended.
Ongoing Reports:
Water Debbie reported new information regarding water projects. Research has shown that millions die annually from contaminated water sources, but children are especially vulnerable. However, when considering supporting a water project, sustainability is crucial. Children are worse off when they have good water for a period of time and then lose it. Many projects in Africa done by organizations with good intentions are now non-functional and have been detrimental to the health of the children.
Collections Christmas in July Sherrie reported that we did well including approx. $2625 in gift cards.
Coin Collection Judy’s report is attached.
Stewards of God’s Creation Sherrie reported that Bruce Burno will be assuming chair responsibilities.
Our Lady of the Mountains Judy’s report is attached.
Immigration Margaret reported that Sissy an immigrant mother for whom the community has been praying was reunited with her family. Additionally, Margaret reported that Pope Benedict spoke out on the importance of keeping families together. Prayer services are being planned to focus on immigration issues.
Empowerment Fund Danny Burridge, a parishioner who we have supported win his mission work will be speaking at the Masses on August 22nd and 23rd to ask for prayer and financial assistance for the organization for which he has been working called the Volunteer Missionary Movement. His project is called the Mission Cooperative Plan.
· $500 was recommended for Missionaries of Jesus-Fr. Greg Domilies in Papua New Guinea
· $1000 was recommended for Our Lady of the Mountains Mom’s Nutrition Program.
It was decided to revisit the guidelines for the empowerment fund at the September meeting
Child Protection Kathy reported that the monthly fingerprinting will take place during the school open house. The update class will be held Tuesday August 11th at 7:00. There are 1400 names on our list and many need the update class. Connections a Caring Place is having a rocking chair fundraiser.
Salt and Light Judy’s report is attached.
Twinning Sue reported the trip to Nicaragua was another wonderful experience with the Holy Spirit. Jim Berning gave out 8 hearing aides after working with an audiologist from Managua. The puppet show and puppet making was well received by all the children. The puppets will be used during Story Hour at the library and for the theater classes. The Field Day had over 100 children and youth. The people of the Center were wonderful as always so loving to all of us. Buzz Auvil, Jeannine Blatt and Pat Berning were fun loving participants. There are 23 people who have stated they are interested in next year’s trip
June 10-17. Fr. Tom is thinking of going as well.
Car-X donations to Food from the Heart Sue reported that Car-X will be going $10 coupons for can goods and non-perishable grocery items that are brought to their shops.
Pledge of Nonviolence Teri Fox will coordinate again this year. It will be at Masses on Oct. 3rd and 4th.
Goals and Objectives 2009-2010 Three objectives are being developed for Pastoral Council. hopefully we will have them done by August 1. Fr. Tom has asked us to work on the economic crisis, so that will be one of our objectives. We will be working with St. Vincent de Paul, IHM Job Search Ministry, and the Social Action Collaborative on Foreclosures. Kathy is developing one for child protection. Sue is working with Allison Groetsch and Jane Elfers on another objective for respect of all life. Allison Groetsch has resigned as chair of Respect LIfe but will continue to work with the ministry.
Commission Chair Sue will be stepping down as Social Ministries Advisory Comission chair.
From Sue’s report to the members:
A bit of Social Ministries history:
Louise Lawarre chair over 10 years, Sue Keefe chair 3 years, Pat Berning chair 5
years, Judy O’Brien chair 2 years, Sue Keefe chair 3 years and current chair.
Sherrie Heyse has been assisting me for several years with the Collections and articles for the Heartbeat for which I am ever thankful. This is my last year to chair SMC. We will have discernment in June to determine a new chair or co-chairs for our ministry. I am eager to continue being on the commission and coordinating the Multicultural Mass, Living a Faith that Does Justice, Journey to Justice and our twinning activities with Cultural Center Batahola Norte. Please pray about this. I will send out a list of responsibilities for the chair so that we all know what it entails.
All committee reports emailed to chairperson 5 days before meeting to be sent as an attachment. All reports will be read at the meeting if committee chair is not present.
Next meeting September 14 7:15pm due to Labor Day Sept. 7.
Social Ministries Calendar 2009-10
Christmas in July July 11-12, 2009, July 10-11, 2010
School House Collection August 8-9, 2009
Used Coat Collection October 10-11, 2009
Giving Tree December 5-6, 2009, tags placed 3 weeks before
Undee Sunday January 23-24, 2010
Project 5000 February 20-21, 2010
Baby Shower May 8-9, 2010
Mission Trip to Cultural Center Batahola Norte, Managua June
11-17, 2010
Batahola Garage Sale May 1, 2010 (gym and cafeteria)
Fundraiser for Batahola May 15, 2010 (gym) 8am-11:30pm
Multicultural Mass October 18, 2009 6pm
Living a Faith that Does Justice Dinner February 1, 2010 Heritage
West
Salt and Light October 7-November 4 7:30pm (Heritage West)
PRP /Sunday Social Forums January 10 and February 14 10-11am
(Heritage West)
Journey to Justice March 13-14, 2010 9-5, 9-11:30 (Holy Family
Room)
1/2 Day Workshop Mission Trip May 22, 2010 (Holy Family Room)
Pledge of Nonviolence October 3-4, 2009
Stewards of Children Workshop November 11, 2009 and March 3,
2010 Heritage West
Respect Life 4000 Crosses October 24-November 7, 2009
Respect Life Memorial Service/Mass - January 20, 2010 church
booked
Social Ministries Retreat January 9, 2009 9-12 Sean Ater Hageman
Interfaith Hospitality Network, Anderson Hills Methodist Church
2009: August 9-15, September 27-October 3, December 6-12 rest of
dates to be announced.
City Gospel Mission Soup Kitchen 2009: June 17, July 15,
August 12, September 16, October 21, November 18, December 16,
January 20, February 17, March 17, April 21, May 19
Walnut Hills Soup Kitchen 2009: June 28, August 23, October 25,
February 28, 2010, April 25,2010,
Fair Trade Coffee 2nd weekend of the month
Food from the Heart weekend before the 3rd Monday each month
Judy’s Reports for August Social Ministries Meeting
Our Lady of the Mountains
Since the June meeting Vacation Bible School had OLM come and be part of Mission Day. Each class had the opportunity to meet with Sr. Mary Jane and hear about OLM. She brought pictures for the kids to see and brochures for them to take home. The kids brought in socks and underwear and coins for a monetary gift. They collected 10 laundry baskets of socks and underwear and $189 in coins.
On July 11th about 10 of us made the trip down to Stanton for a retreat day. We were a smaller group than expected because of illnesses. Fr. Fritsch talked on spirituality and the environment. OLM served us a wonderful lunch with the best-fried chicken I have ever tasted.
I had the opportunity to go down for the second day of the socks and underwear giveaway with three of my granddaughters. It was a very good day. This year they had about 150 people sign up which is 50 more than usual so the help from Vacation Bible School and others was extremely helpful.
The this time we would like to go to Pastoral Council with a proposal for going forward on working toward a formal twinning relationship.
Salt and Light
Salt and Light has been advertised in the Bulletin and I will continue to do that. I will put an article in the Heartbeat. Sean will give the info to other DREs in the area.
I plan to start inviting individuals personally and hope others will also. We will advertise it at the Ministry Fair also.
Ministry Fair
My idea for Ministry Fair is to give a door prize so people have a reason to stop at our table. We would make up a basket and put in it products representing each of our ministries with a note attached explaining the connection. The items would be items people could use. It could contain such things as something from Batahola, an energy efficient light bulb, cans of food, something from OLM, maybe a container of some kind with coins in it etc, those types of things. Also I am trying to get us two tables since we represent so many ministries and need the space. I think we should use less big board displays and instead, as much as possible, put individual pictures with the name of each ministry and sign up sheets for each one. That would allow us to stand behind the table and talk to folks more easily
.Coin Collection
The coin collection is up since we started advertising more. The last two weeks it has really been up. Hopefully in the fall we can work with the school and PRP kids to bring it up even more. My aim would be a consistent $150 each week.
Social Ministries Commission Minutes from August 3, 2009
Attendance: John Dettmen, Sean Ater, Sherrie Heyse, Fred Heyse, Teri Fox, Tom Monaco, Margaret Stepp, Carol Kelly, Kathy Weyer, Sue Keefe, Dave Scharfenberger, Jerry Metz and Debbie Metz
Opening Prayer/Formation DVD of Cultural Center Batahola Norte & Prayer
Minutes The minutes were approved.
Announcements It was announced that Rich Delcore will be our new liaison. Sue asked each member to invite someone to Social Ministries Commission. We need to expand our commission as well as develop additional leadership.
Special Report on Foreclosures Dave Scharfenberger of WIN reported on WIN’s efforts to track foreclosure and homes that were lost. WIN has been doing housing counseling. Housing counselors can talk to your mortgage company for you. They can often work out plans to stop foreclosures. Counselors have access to emergency assistance money. WIN has also been doing workshops at parishes in conjunction with the Archdiocesan Catholic Social Action Parish Collaborative. Thsey have been well attended.
Ongoing Reports:
Water Debbie reported new information regarding water projects. Research has shown that millions die annually from contaminated water sources, but children are especially vulnerable. However, when considering supporting a water project, sustainability is crucial. Children are worse off when they have good water for a period of time and then lose it. Many projects in Africa done by organizations with good intentions are now non-functional and have been detrimental to the health of the children.
Collections Christmas in July Sherrie reported that we did well including approx. $2625 in gift cards.
Coin Collection Judy’s report is attached.
Stewards of God’s Creation Sherrie reported that Bruce Burno will be assuming chair responsibilities.
Our Lady of the Mountains Judy’s report is attached.
Immigration Margaret reported that Sissy an immigrant mother for whom the community has been praying was reunited with her family. Additionally, Margaret reported that Pope Benedict spoke out on the importance of keeping families together. Prayer services are being planned to focus on immigration issues.
Empowerment Fund Danny Burridge, a parishioner who we have supported win his mission work will be speaking at the Masses on August 22nd and 23rd to ask for prayer and financial assistance for the organization for which he has been working called the Volunteer Missionary Movement. His project is called the Mission Cooperative Plan.
· $500 was recommended for Missionaries of Jesus-Fr. Greg Domilies in Papua New Guinea
· $1000 was recommended for Our Lady of the Mountains Mom’s Nutrition Program.
It was decided to revisit the guidelines for the empowerment fund at the September meeting
Child Protection Kathy reported that the monthly fingerprinting will take place during the school open house. The update class will be held Tuesday August 11th at 7:00. There are 1400 names on our list and many need the update class. Connections a Caring Place is having a rocking chair fundraiser.
Salt and Light Judy’s report is attached.
Twinning Sue reported the trip to Nicaragua was another wonderful experience with the Holy Spirit. Jim Berning gave out 8 hearing aides after working with an audiologist from Managua. The puppet show and puppet making was well received by all the children. The puppets will be used during Story Hour at the library and for the theater classes. The Field Day had over 100 children and youth. The people of the Center were wonderful as always so loving to all of us. Buzz Auvil, Jeannine Blatt and Pat Berning were fun loving participants. There are 23 people who have stated they are interested in next year’s trip
June 10-17. Fr. Tom is thinking of going as well.
Car-X donations to Food from the Heart Sue reported that Car-X will be going $10 coupons for can goods and non-perishable grocery items that are brought to their shops.
Pledge of Nonviolence Teri Fox will coordinate again this year. It will be at Masses on Oct. 3rd and 4th.
Goals and Objectives 2009-2010 Three objectives are being developed for Pastoral Council. hopefully we will have them done by August 1. Fr. Tom has asked us to work on the economic crisis, so that will be one of our objectives. We will be working with St. Vincent de Paul, IHM Job Search Ministry, and the Social Action Collaborative on Foreclosures. Kathy is developing one for child protection. Sue is working with Allison Groetsch and Jane Elfers on another objective for respect of all life. Allison Groetsch has resigned as chair of Respect LIfe but will continue to work with the ministry.
Commission Chair Sue will be stepping down as Social Ministries Advisory Comission chair.
From Sue’s report to the members:
A bit of Social Ministries history:
Louise Lawarre chair over 10 years, Sue Keefe chair 3 years, Pat Berning chair 5
years, Judy O’Brien chair 2 years, Sue Keefe chair 3 years and current chair.
Sherrie Heyse has been assisting me for several years with the Collections and articles for the Heartbeat for which I am ever thankful. This is my last year to chair SMC. We will have discernment in June to determine a new chair or co-chairs for our ministry. I am eager to continue being on the commission and coordinating the Multicultural Mass, Living a Faith that Does Justice, Journey to Justice and our twinning activities with Cultural Center Batahola Norte. Please pray about this. I will send out a list of responsibilities for the chair so that we all know what it entails.
All committee reports emailed to chairperson 5 days before meeting to be sent as an attachment. All reports will be read at the meeting if committee chair is not present.
Next meeting September 14 7:15pm due to Labor Day Sept. 7.
Social Ministries Calendar 2009-10
Christmas in July July 11-12, 2009, July 10-11, 2010
School House Collection August 8-9, 2009
Used Coat Collection October 10-11, 2009
Giving Tree December 5-6, 2009, tags placed 3 weeks before
Undee Sunday January 23-24, 2010
Project 5000 February 20-21, 2010
Baby Shower May 8-9, 2010
Mission Trip to Cultural Center Batahola Norte, Managua June
11-17, 2010
Batahola Garage Sale May 1, 2010 (gym and cafeteria)
Fundraiser for Batahola May 15, 2010 (gym) 8am-11:30pm
Multicultural Mass October 18, 2009 6pm
Living a Faith that Does Justice Dinner February 1, 2010 Heritage
West
Salt and Light October 7-November 4 7:30pm (Heritage West)
PRP /Sunday Social Forums January 10 and February 14 10-11am
(Heritage West)
Journey to Justice March 13-14, 2010 9-5, 9-11:30 (Holy Family
Room)
1/2 Day Workshop Mission Trip May 22, 2010 (Holy Family Room)
Pledge of Nonviolence October 3-4, 2009
Stewards of Children Workshop November 11, 2009 and March 3,
2010 Heritage West
Respect Life 4000 Crosses October 24-November 7, 2009
Respect Life Memorial Service/Mass - January 20, 2010 church
booked
Social Ministries Retreat January 9, 2009 9-12 Sean Ater Hageman
Interfaith Hospitality Network, Anderson Hills Methodist Church
2009: August 9-15, September 27-October 3, December 6-12 rest of
dates to be announced.
City Gospel Mission Soup Kitchen 2009: June 17, July 15,
August 12, September 16, October 21, November 18, December 16,
January 20, February 17, March 17, April 21, May 19
Walnut Hills Soup Kitchen 2009: June 28, August 23, October 25,
February 28, 2010, April 25,2010,
Fair Trade Coffee 2nd weekend of the month
Food from the Heart weekend before the 3rd Monday each month
Judy’s Reports for August Social Ministries Meeting
Our Lady of the Mountains
Since the June meeting Vacation Bible School had OLM come and be part of Mission Day. Each class had the opportunity to meet with Sr. Mary Jane and hear about OLM. She brought pictures for the kids to see and brochures for them to take home. The kids brought in socks and underwear and coins for a monetary gift. They collected 10 laundry baskets of socks and underwear and $189 in coins.
On July 11th about 10 of us made the trip down to Stanton for a retreat day. We were a smaller group than expected because of illnesses. Fr. Fritsch talked on spirituality and the environment. OLM served us a wonderful lunch with the best-fried chicken I have ever tasted.
I had the opportunity to go down for the second day of the socks and underwear giveaway with three of my granddaughters. It was a very good day. This year they had about 150 people sign up which is 50 more than usual so the help from Vacation Bible School and others was extremely helpful.
The this time we would like to go to Pastoral Council with a proposal for going forward on working toward a formal twinning relationship.
Salt and Light
Salt and Light has been advertised in the Bulletin and I will continue to do that. I will put an article in the Heartbeat. Sean will give the info to other DREs in the area.
I plan to start inviting individuals personally and hope others will also. We will advertise it at the Ministry Fair also.
Ministry Fair
My idea for Ministry Fair is to give a door prize so people have a reason to stop at our table. We would make up a basket and put in it products representing each of our ministries with a note attached explaining the connection. The items would be items people could use. It could contain such things as something from Batahola, an energy efficient light bulb, cans of food, something from OLM, maybe a container of some kind with coins in it etc, those types of things. Also I am trying to get us two tables since we represent so many ministries and need the space. I think we should use less big board displays and instead, as much as possible, put individual pictures with the name of each ministry and sign up sheets for each one. That would allow us to stand behind the table and talk to folks more easily
.Coin Collection
The coin collection is up since we started advertising more. The last two weeks it has really been up. Hopefully in the fall we can work with the school and PRP kids to bring it up even more. My aim would be a consistent $150 each week.
Social Ministries Commission Minutes from August 3, 2009
Attendance: John Dettmen, Sean Ater, Sherrie Heyse, Fred Heyse, Teri Fox, Tom Monaco, Margaret Stepp, Carol Kelly, Kathy Weyer, Sue Keefe, Dave Scharfenberger, Jerry Metz and Debbie Metz
Opening Prayer/Formation DVD of Cultural Center Batahola Norte & Prayer
Minutes The minutes were approved.
Announcements It was announced that Rich Delcore will be our new liaison. Sue asked each member to invite someone to Social Ministries Commission. We need to expand our commission as well as develop additional leadership.
Special Report on Foreclosures Dave Scharfenberger of WIN reported on WIN’s efforts to track foreclosure and homes that were lost. WIN has been doing housing counseling. Housing counselors can talk to your mortgage company for you. They can often work out plans to stop foreclosures. Counselors have access to emergency assistance money. WIN has also been doing workshops at parishes in conjunction with the Archdiocesan Catholic Social Action Parish Collaborative. Thsey have been well attended.
Ongoing Reports:
Water Debbie reported new information regarding water projects. Research has shown that millions die annually from contaminated water sources, but children are especially vulnerable. However, when considering supporting a water project, sustainability is crucial. Children are worse off when they have good water for a period of time and then lose it. Many projects in Africa done by organizations with good intentions are now non-functional and have been detrimental to the health of the children.
Collections Christmas in July Sherrie reported that we did well including approx. $2625 in gift cards.
Coin Collection Judy’s report is attached.
Stewards of God’s Creation Sherrie reported that Bruce Burno will be assuming chair responsibilities.
Our Lady of the Mountains Judy’s report is attached.
Immigration Margaret reported that Sissy an immigrant mother for whom the community has been praying was reunited with her family. Additionally, Margaret reported that Pope Benedict spoke out on the importance of keeping families together. Prayer services are being planned to focus on immigration issues.
Empowerment Fund Danny Burridge, a parishioner who we have supported win his mission work will be speaking at the Masses on August 22nd and 23rd to ask for prayer and financial assistance for the organization for which he has been working called the Volunteer Missionary Movement. His project is called the Mission Cooperative Plan.
· $500 was recommended for Missionaries of Jesus-Fr. Greg Domilies in Papua New Guinea
· $1000 was recommended for Our Lady of the Mountains Mom’s Nutrition Program.
It was decided to revisit the guidelines for the empowerment fund at the September meeting
Child Protection Kathy reported that the monthly fingerprinting will take place during the school open house. The update class will be held Tuesday August 11th at 7:00. There are 1400 names on our list and many need the update class. Connections a Caring Place is having a rocking chair fundraiser.
Salt and Light Judy’s report is attached.
Twinning Sue reported the trip to Nicaragua was another wonderful experience with the Holy Spirit. Jim Berning gave out 8 hearing aides after working with an audiologist from Managua. The puppet show and puppet making was well received by all the children. The puppets will be used during Story Hour at the library and for the theater classes. The Field Day had over 100 children and youth. The people of the Center were wonderful as always so loving to all of us. Buzz Auvil, Jeannine Blatt and Pat Berning were fun loving participants. There are 23 people who have stated they are interested in next year’s trip
June 10-17. Fr. Tom is thinking of going as well.
Car-X donations to Food from the Heart Sue reported that Car-X will be going $10 coupons for can goods and non-perishable grocery items that are brought to their shops.
Pledge of Nonviolence Teri Fox will coordinate again this year. It will be at Masses on Oct. 3rd and 4th.
Goals and Objectives 2009-2010 Three objectives are being developed for Pastoral Council. hopefully we will have them done by August 1. Fr. Tom has asked us to work on the economic crisis, so that will be one of our objectives. We will be working with St. Vincent de Paul, IHM Job Search Ministry, and the Social Action Collaborative on Foreclosures. Kathy is developing one for child protection. Sue is working with Allison Groetsch and Jane Elfers on another objective for respect of all life. Allison Groetsch has resigned as chair of Respect LIfe but will continue to work with the ministry.
Commission Chair Sue will be stepping down as Social Ministries Advisory Comission chair.
From Sue’s report to the members:
A bit of Social Ministries history:
Louise Lawarre chair over 10 years, Sue Keefe chair 3 years, Pat Berning chair 5
years, Judy O’Brien chair 2 years, Sue Keefe chair 3 years and current chair.
Sherrie Heyse has been assisting me for several years with the Collections and articles for the Heartbeat for which I am ever thankful. This is my last year to chair SMC. We will have discernment in June to determine a new chair or co-chairs for our ministry. I am eager to continue being on the commission and coordinating the Multicultural Mass, Living a Faith that Does Justice, Journey to Justice and our twinning activities with Cultural Center Batahola Norte. Please pray about this. I will send out a list of responsibilities for the chair so that we all know what it entails.
All committee reports emailed to chairperson 5 days before meeting to be sent as an attachment. All reports will be read at the meeting if committee chair is not present.
Next meeting September 14 7:15pm due to Labor Day Sept. 7.
Social Ministries Calendar 2009-10
Christmas in July July 11-12, 2009, July 10-11, 2010
School House Collection August 8-9, 2009
Used Coat Collection October 10-11, 2009
Giving Tree December 5-6, 2009, tags placed 3 weeks before
Undee Sunday January 23-24, 2010
Project 5000 February 20-21, 2010
Baby Shower May 8-9, 2010
Mission Trip to Cultural Center Batahola Norte, Managua June
11-17, 2010
Batahola Garage Sale May 1, 2010 (gym and cafeteria)
Fundraiser for Batahola May 15, 2010 (gym) 8am-11:30pm
Multicultural Mass October 18, 2009 6pm
Living a Faith that Does Justice Dinner February 1, 2010 Heritage
West
Salt and Light October 7-November 4 7:30pm (Heritage West)
PRP /Sunday Social Forums January 10 and February 14 10-11am
(Heritage West)
Journey to Justice March 13-14, 2010 9-5, 9-11:30 (Holy Family
Room)
1/2 Day Workshop Mission Trip May 22, 2010 (Holy Family Room)
Pledge of Nonviolence October 3-4, 2009
Stewards of Children Workshop November 11, 2009 and March 3,
2010 Heritage West
Respect Life 4000 Crosses October 24-November 7, 2009
Respect Life Memorial Service/Mass - January 20, 2010 church
booked
Social Ministries Retreat January 9, 2009 9-12 Sean Ater Hageman
Interfaith Hospitality Network, Anderson Hills Methodist Church
2009: August 9-15, September 27-October 3, December 6-12 rest of
dates to be announced.
City Gospel Mission Soup Kitchen 2009: June 17, July 15,
August 12, September 16, October 21, November 18, December 16,
January 20, February 17, March 17, April 21, May 19
Walnut Hills Soup Kitchen 2009: June 28, August 23, October 25,
February 28, 2010, April 25,2010,
Fair Trade Coffee 2nd weekend of the month
Food from the Heart weekend before the 3rd Monday each month
Judy’s Reports for August Social Ministries Meeting
Our Lady of the Mountains
Since the June meeting Vacation Bible School had OLM come and be part of Mission Day. Each class had the opportunity to meet with Sr. Mary Jane and hear about OLM. She brought pictures for the kids to see and brochures for them to take home. The kids brought in socks and underwear and coins for a monetary gift. They collected 10 laundry baskets of socks and underwear and $189 in coins.
On July 11th about 10 of us made the trip down to Stanton for a retreat day. We were a smaller group than expected because of illnesses. Fr. Fritsch talked on spirituality and the environment. OLM served us a wonderful lunch with the best-fried chicken I have ever tasted.
I had the opportunity to go down for the second day of the socks and underwear giveaway with three of my granddaughters. It was a very good day. This year they had about 150 people sign up which is 50 more than usual so the help from Vacation Bible School and others was extremely helpful.
The this time we would like to go to Pastoral Council with a proposal for going forward on working toward a formal twinning relationship.
Salt and Light
Salt and Light has been advertised in the Bulletin and I will continue to do that. I will put an article in the Heartbeat. Sean will give the info to other DREs in the area.
I plan to start inviting individuals personally and hope others will also. We will advertise it at the Ministry Fair also.
Ministry Fair
My idea for Ministry Fair is to give a door prize so people have a reason to stop at our table. We would make up a basket and put in it products representing each of our ministries with a note attached explaining the connection. The items would be items people could use. It could contain such things as something from Batahola, an energy efficient light bulb, cans of food, something from OLM, maybe a container of some kind with coins in it etc, those types of things. Also I am trying to get us two tables since we represent so many ministries and need the space. I think we should use less big board displays and instead, as much as possible, put individual pictures with the name of each ministry and sign up sheets for each one. That would allow us to stand behind the table and talk to folks more easily
.Coin Collection
The coin collection is up since we started advertising more. The last two weeks it has really been up. Hopefully in the fall we can work with the school and PRP kids to bring it up even more. My aim would be a consistent $150 each week.
Social Ministries Commission Minutes from August 3, 2009
Attendance: John Dettmen, Sean Ater, Sherrie Heyse, Fred Heyse, Teri Fox, Tom Monaco, Margaret Stepp, Carol Kelly, Kathy Weyer, Sue Keefe, Dave Scharfenberger, Jerry Metz and Debbie Metz
Opening Prayer/Formation DVD of Cultural Center Batahola Norte & Prayer
Minutes The minutes were approved.
Announcements It was announced that Rich Delcore will be our new liaison. Sue asked each member to invite someone to Social Ministries Commission. We need to expand our commission as well as develop additional leadership.
Special Report on Foreclosures Dave Scharfenberger of WIN reported on WIN’s efforts to track foreclosure and homes that were lost. WIN has been doing housing counseling. Housing counselors can talk to your mortgage company for you. They can often work out plans to stop foreclosures. Counselors have access to emergency assistance money. WIN has also been doing workshops at parishes in conjunction with the Archdiocesan Catholic Social Action Parish Collaborative. Thsey have been well attended.
Ongoing Reports:
Water Debbie reported new information regarding water projects. Research has shown that millions die annually from contaminated water sources, but children are especially vulnerable. However, when considering supporting a water project, sustainability is crucial. Children are worse off when they have good water for a period of time and then lose it. Many projects in Africa done by organizations with good intentions are now non-functional and have been detrimental to the health of the children.
Collections Christmas in July Sherrie reported that we did well including approx. $2625 in gift cards.
Coin Collection Judy’s report is attached.
Stewards of God’s Creation Sherrie reported that Bruce Burno will be assuming chair responsibilities.
Our Lady of the Mountains Judy’s report is attached.
Immigration Margaret reported that Sissy an immigrant mother for whom the community has been praying was reunited with her family. Additionally, Margaret reported that Pope Benedict spoke out on the importance of keeping families together. Prayer services are being planned to focus on immigration issues.
Empowerment Fund Danny Burridge, a parishioner who we have supported win his mission work will be speaking at the Masses on August 22nd and 23rd to ask for prayer and financial assistance for the organization for which he has been working called the Volunteer Missionary Movement. His project is called the Mission Cooperative Plan.
· $500 was recommended for Missionaries of Jesus-Fr. Greg Domilies in Papua New Guinea
· $1000 was recommended for Our Lady of the Mountains Mom’s Nutrition Program.
It was decided to revisit the guidelines for the empowerment fund at the September meeting
Child Protection Kathy reported that the monthly fingerprinting will take place during the school open house. The update class will be held Tuesday August 11th at 7:00. There are 1400 names on our list and many need the update class. Connections a Caring Place is having a rocking chair fundraiser.
Salt and Light Judy’s report is attached.
Twinning Sue reported the trip to Nicaragua was another wonderful experience with the Holy Spirit. Jim Berning gave out 8 hearing aides after working with an audiologist from Managua. The puppet show and puppet making was well received by all the children. The puppets will be used during Story Hour at the library and for the theater classes. The Field Day had over 100 children and youth. The people of the Center were wonderful as always so loving to all of us. Buzz Auvil, Jeannine Blatt and Pat Berning were fun loving participants. There are 23 people who have stated they are interested in next year’s trip
June 10-17. Fr. Tom is thinking of going as well.
Car-X donations to Food from the Heart Sue reported that Car-X will be going $10 coupons for can goods and non-perishable grocery items that are brought to their shops.
Pledge of Nonviolence Teri Fox will coordinate again this year. It will be at Masses on Oct. 3rd and 4th.
Goals and Objectives 2009-2010 Three objectives are being developed for Pastoral Council. hopefully we will have them done by August 1. Fr. Tom has asked us to work on the economic crisis, so that will be one of our objectives. We will be working with St. Vincent de Paul, IHM Job Search Ministry, and the Social Action Collaborative on Foreclosures. Kathy is developing one for child protection. Sue is working with Allison Groetsch and Jane Elfers on another objective for respect of all life. Allison Groetsch has resigned as chair of Respect LIfe but will continue to work with the ministry.
Commission Chair Sue will be stepping down as Social Ministries Advisory Comission chair.
From Sue’s report to the members:
A bit of Social Ministries history:
Louise Lawarre chair over 10 years, Sue Keefe chair 3 years, Pat Berning chair 5
years, Judy O’Brien chair 2 years, Sue Keefe chair 3 years and current chair.
Sherrie Heyse has been assisting me for several years with the Collections and articles for the Heartbeat for which I am ever thankful. This is my last year to chair SMC. We will have discernment in June to determine a new chair or co-chairs for our ministry. I am eager to continue being on the commission and coordinating the Multicultural Mass, Living a Faith that Does Justice, Journey to Justice and our twinning activities with Cultural Center Batahola Norte. Please pray about this. I will send out a list of responsibilities for the chair so that we all know what it entails.
All committee reports emailed to chairperson 5 days before meeting to be sent as an attachment. All reports will be read at the meeting if committee chair is not present.
Next meeting September 14 7:15pm due to Labor Day Sept. 7.
Social Ministries Calendar 2009-10
Christmas in July July 11-12, 2009, July 10-11, 2010
School House Collection August 8-9, 2009
Used Coat Collection October 10-11, 2009
Giving Tree December 5-6, 2009, tags placed 3 weeks before
Undee Sunday January 23-24, 2010
Project 5000 February 20-21, 2010
Baby Shower May 8-9, 2010
Mission Trip to Cultural Center Batahola Norte, Managua June
11-17, 2010
Batahola Garage Sale May 1, 2010 (gym and cafeteria)
Fundraiser for Batahola May 15, 2010 (gym) 8am-11:30pm
Multicultural Mass October 18, 2009 6pm
Living a Faith that Does Justice Dinner February 1, 2010 Heritage
West
Salt and Light October 7-November 4 7:30pm (Heritage West)
PRP /Sunday Social Forums January 10 and February 14 10-11am
(Heritage West)
Journey to Justice March 13-14, 2010 9-5, 9-11:30 (Holy Family
Room)
1/2 Day Workshop Mission Trip May 22, 2010 (Holy Family Room)
Pledge of Nonviolence October 3-4, 2009
Stewards of Children Workshop November 11, 2009 and March 3,
2010 Heritage West
Respect Life 4000 Crosses October 24-November 7, 2009
Respect Life Memorial Service/Mass - January 20, 2010 church
booked
Social Ministries Retreat January 9, 2009 9-12 Sean Ater Hageman
Interfaith Hospitality Network, Anderson Hills Methodist Church
2009: August 9-15, September 27-October 3, December 6-12 rest of
dates to be announced.
City Gospel Mission Soup Kitchen 2009: June 17, July 15,
August 12, September 16, October 21, November 18, December 16,
January 20, February 17, March 17, April 21, May 19
Walnut Hills Soup Kitchen 2009: June 28, August 23, October 25,
February 28, 2010, April 25,2010,
Fair Trade Coffee 2nd weekend of the month
Food from the Heart weekend before the 3rd Monday each month
Judy’s Reports for August Social Ministries Meeting
Our Lady of the Mountains
Since the June meeting Vacation Bible School had OLM come and be part of Mission Day. Each class had the opportunity to meet with Sr. Mary Jane and hear about OLM. She brought pictures for the kids to see and brochures for them to take home. The kids brought in socks and underwear and coins for a monetary gift. They collected 10 laundry baskets of socks and underwear and $189 in coins.
On July 11th about 10 of us made the trip down to Stanton for a retreat day. We were a smaller group than expected because of illnesses. Fr. Fritsch talked on spirituality and the environment. OLM served us a wonderful lunch with the best-fried chicken I have ever tasted.
I had the opportunity to go down for the second day of the socks and underwear giveaway with three of my granddaughters. It was a very good day. This year they had about 150 people sign up which is 50 more than usual so the help from Vacation Bible School and others was extremely helpful.
The this time we would like to go to Pastoral Council with a proposal for going forward on working toward a formal twinning relationship.
Salt and Light
Salt and Light has been advertised in the Bulletin and I will continue to do that. I will put an article in the Heartbeat. Sean will give the info to other DREs in the area.
I plan to start inviting individuals personally and hope others will also. We will advertise it at the Ministry Fair also.
Ministry Fair
My idea for Ministry Fair is to give a door prize so people have a reason to stop at our table. We would make up a basket and put in it products representing each of our ministries with a note attached explaining the connection. The items would be items people could use. It could contain such things as something from Batahola, an energy efficient light bulb, cans of food, something from OLM, maybe a container of some kind with coins in it etc, those types of things. Also I am trying to get us two tables since we represent so many ministries and need the space. I think we should use less big board displays and instead, as much as possible, put individual pictures with the name of each ministry and sign up sheets for each one. That would allow us to stand behind the table and talk to folks more easily
.Coin Collection
The coin collection is up since we started advertising more. The last two weeks it has really been up. Hopefully in the fall we can work with the school and PRP kids to bring it up even more. My aim would be a consistent $150 each week.
Social Ministries Commission Minutes from August 3, 2009
Attendance: John Dettmen, Sean Ater, Sherrie Heyse, Fred Heyse, Teri Fox, Tom Monaco, Margaret Stepp, Carol Kelly, Kathy Weyer, Sue Keefe, Dave Scharfenberger, Jerry Metz and Debbie Metz
Opening Prayer/Formation DVD of Cultural Center Batahola Norte & Prayer
Minutes The minutes were approved.
Announcements It was announced that Rich Delcore will be our new liaison. Sue asked each member to invite someone to Social Ministries Commission. We need to expand our commission as well as develop additional leadership.
Special Report on Foreclosures Dave Scharfenberger of WIN reported on WIN’s efforts to track foreclosure and homes that were lost. WIN has been doing housing counseling. Housing counselors can talk to your mortgage company for you. They can often work out plans to stop foreclosures. Counselors have access to emergency assistance money. WIN has also been doing workshops at parishes in conjunction with the Archdiocesan Catholic Social Action Parish Collaborative. Thsey have been well attended.
Ongoing Reports:
Water Debbie reported new information regarding water projects. Research has shown that millions die annually from contaminated water sources, but children are especially vulnerable. However, when considering supporting a water project, sustainability is crucial. Children are worse off when they have good water for a period of time and then lose it. Many projects in Africa done by organizations with good intentions are now non-functional and have been detrimental to the health of the children.
Collections Christmas in July Sherrie reported that we did well including approx. $2625 in gift cards.
Coin Collection Judy’s report is attached.
Stewards of God’s Creation Sherrie reported that Bruce Burno will be assuming chair responsibilities.
Our Lady of the Mountains Judy’s report is attached.
Immigration Margaret reported that Sissy an immigrant mother for whom the community has been praying was reunited with her family. Additionally, Margaret reported that Pope Benedict spoke out on the importance of keeping families together. Prayer services are being planned to focus on immigration issues.
Empowerment Fund Danny Burridge, a parishioner who we have supported win his mission work will be speaking at the Masses on August 22nd and 23rd to ask for prayer and financial assistance for the organization for which he has been working called the Volunteer Missionary Movement. His project is called the Mission Cooperative Plan.
· $500 was recommended for Missionaries of Jesus-Fr. Greg Domilies in Papua New Guinea
· $1000 was recommended for Our Lady of the Mountains Mom’s Nutrition Program.
It was decided to revisit the guidelines for the empowerment fund at the September meeting
Child Protection Kathy reported that the monthly fingerprinting will take place during the school open house. The update class will be held Tuesday August 11th at 7:00. There are 1400 names on our list and many need the update class. Connections a Caring Place is having a rocking chair fundraiser.
Salt and Light Judy’s report is attached.
Twinning Sue reported the trip to Nicaragua was another wonderful experience with the Holy Spirit. Jim Berning gave out 8 hearing aides after working with an audiologist from Managua. The puppet show and puppet making was well received by all the children. The puppets will be used during Story Hour at the library and for the theater classes. The Field Day had over 100 children and youth. The people of the Center were wonderful as always so loving to all of us. Buzz Auvil, Jeannine Blatt and Pat Berning were fun loving participants. There are 23 people who have stated they are interested in next year’s trip
June 10-17. Fr. Tom is thinking of going as well.
Car-X donations to Food from the Heart Sue reported that Car-X will be going $10 coupons for can goods and non-perishable grocery items that are brought to their shops.
Pledge of Nonviolence Teri Fox will coordinate again this year. It will be at Masses on Oct. 3rd and 4th.
Goals and Objectives 2009-2010 Three objectives are being developed for Pastoral Council. hopefully we will have them done by August 1. Fr. Tom has asked us to work on the economic crisis, so that will be one of our objectives. We will be working with St. Vincent de Paul, IHM Job Search Ministry, and the Social Action Collaborative on Foreclosures. Kathy is developing one for child protection. Sue is working with Allison Groetsch and Jane Elfers on another objective for respect of all life. Allison Groetsch has resigned as chair of Respect LIfe but will continue to work with the ministry.
Commission Chair Sue will be stepping down as Social Ministries Advisory Comission chair.
From Sue’s report to the members:
A bit of Social Ministries history:
Louise Lawarre chair over 10 years, Sue Keefe chair 3 years, Pat Berning chair 5
years, Judy O’Brien chair 2 years, Sue Keefe chair 3 years and current chair.
Sherrie Heyse has been assisting me for several years with the Collections and articles for the Heartbeat for which I am ever thankful. This is my last year to chair SMC. We will have discernment in June to determine a new chair or co-chairs for our ministry. I am eager to continue being on the commission and coordinating the Multicultural Mass, Living a Faith that Does Justice, Journey to Justice and our twinning activities with Cultural Center Batahola Norte. Please pray about this. I will send out a list of responsibilities for the chair so that we all know what it entails.
All committee reports emailed to chairperson 5 days before meeting to be sent as an attachment. All reports will be read at the meeting if committee chair is not present.
Next meeting September 14 7:15pm due to Labor Day Sept. 7.
Social Ministries Calendar 2009-10
Christmas in July July 11-12, 2009, July 10-11, 2010
School House Collection August 8-9, 2009
Used Coat Collection October 10-11, 2009
Giving Tree December 5-6, 2009, tags placed 3 weeks before
Undee Sunday January 23-24, 2010
Project 5000 February 20-21, 2010
Baby Shower May 8-9, 2010
Mission Trip to Cultural Center Batahola Norte, Managua June
11-17, 2010
Batahola Garage Sale May 1, 2010 (gym and cafeteria)
Fundraiser for Batahola May 15, 2010 (gym) 8am-11:30pm
Multicultural Mass October 18, 2009 6pm
Living a Faith that Does Justice Dinner February 1, 2010 Heritage
West
Salt and Light October 7-November 4 7:30pm (Heritage West)
PRP /Sunday Social Forums January 10 and February 14 10-11am
(Heritage West)
Journey to Justice March 13-14, 2010 9-5, 9-11:30 (Holy Family
Room)
1/2 Day Workshop Mission Trip May 22, 2010 (Holy Family Room)
Pledge of Nonviolence October 3-4, 2009
Stewards of Children Workshop November 11, 2009 and March 3,
2010 Heritage West
Respect Life 4000 Crosses October 24-November 7, 2009
Respect Life Memorial Service/Mass - January 20, 2010 church
booked
Social Ministries Retreat January 9, 2009 9-12 Sean Ater Hageman
Interfaith Hospitality Network, Anderson Hills Methodist Church
2009: August 9-15, September 27-October 3, December 6-12 rest of
dates to be announced.
City Gospel Mission Soup Kitchen 2009: June 17, July 15,
August 12, September 16, October 21, November 18, December 16,
January 20, February 17, March 17, April 21, May 19
Walnut Hills Soup Kitchen 2009: June 28, August 23, October 25,
February 28, 2010, April 25,2010,
Fair Trade Coffee 2nd weekend of the month
Food from the Heart weekend before the 3rd Monday each month
Judy’s Reports for August Social Ministries Meeting
Our Lady of the Mountains
Since the June meeting Vacation Bible School had OLM come and be part of Mission Day. Each class had the opportunity to meet with Sr. Mary Jane and hear about OLM. She brought pictures for the kids to see and brochures for them to take home. The kids brought in socks and underwear and coins for a monetary gift. They collected 10 laundry baskets of socks and underwear and $189 in coins.
On July 11th about 10 of us made the trip down to Stanton for a retreat day. We were a smaller group than expected because of illnesses. Fr. Fritsch talked on spirituality and the environment. OLM served us a wonderful lunch with the best-fried chicken I have ever tasted.
I had the opportunity to go down for the second day of the socks and underwear giveaway with three of my granddaughters. It was a very good day. This year they had about 150 people sign up which is 50 more than usual so the help from Vacation Bible School and others was extremely helpful.
The this time we would like to go to Pastoral Council with a proposal for going forward on working toward a formal twinning relationship.
Salt and Light
Salt and Light has been advertised in the Bulletin and I will continue to do that. I will put an article in the Heartbeat. Sean will give the info to other DREs in the area.
I plan to start inviting individuals personally and hope others will also. We will advertise it at the Ministry Fair also.
Ministry Fair
My idea for Ministry Fair is to give a door prize so people have a reason to stop at our table. We would make up a basket and put in it products representing each of our ministries with a note attached explaining the connection. The items would be items people could use. It could contain such things as something from Batahola, an energy efficient light bulb, cans of food, something from OLM, maybe a container of some kind with coins in it etc, those types of things. Also I am trying to get us two tables since we represent so many ministries and need the space. I think we should use less big board displays and instead, as much as possible, put individual pictures with the name of each ministry and sign up sheets for each one. That would allow us to stand behind the table and talk to folks more easily
.Coin Collection
The coin collection is up since we started advertising more. The last two weeks it has really been up. Hopefully in the fall we can work with the school and PRP kids to bring it up even more. My aim would be a consistent $150 each week.
Social Ministries Commission Minutes from August 3, 2009
Attendance: John Dettmen, Sean Ater, Sherrie Heyse, Fred Heyse, Teri Fox, Tom Monaco, Margaret Stepp, Carol Kelly, Kathy Weyer, Sue Keefe, Dave Scharfenberger, Jerry Metz and Debbie Metz
Opening Prayer/Formation DVD of Cultural Center Batahola Norte & Prayer
Minutes The minutes were approved.
Announcements It was announced that Rich Delcore will be our new liaison. Sue asked each member to invite someone to Social Ministries Commission. We need to expand our commission as well as develop additional leadership.
Special Report on Foreclosures Dave Scharfenberger of WIN reported on WIN’s efforts to track foreclosure and homes that were lost. WIN has been doing housing counseling. Housing counselors can talk to your mortgage company for you. They can often work out plans to stop foreclosures. Counselors have access to emergency assistance money. WIN has also been doing workshops at parishes in conjunction with the Archdiocesan Catholic Social Action Parish Collaborative. Thsey have been well attended.
Ongoing Reports:
Water Debbie reported new information regarding water projects. Research has shown that millions die annually from contaminated water sources, but children are especially vulnerable. However, when considering supporting a water project, sustainability is crucial. Children are worse off when they have good water for a period of time and then lose it. Many projects in Africa done by organizations with good intentions are now non-functional and have been detrimental to the health of the children.
Collections Christmas in July Sherrie reported that we did well including approx. $2625 in gift cards.
Coin Collection Judy’s report is attached.
Stewards of God’s Creation Sherrie reported that Bruce Burno will be assuming chair responsibilities.
Our Lady of the Mountains Judy’s report is attached.
Immigration Margaret reported that Sissy an immigrant mother for whom the community has been praying was reunited with her family. Additionally, Margaret reported that Pope Benedict spoke out on the importance of keeping families together. Prayer services are being planned to focus on immigration issues.
Empowerment Fund Danny Burridge, a parishioner who we have supported win his mission work will be speaking at the Masses on August 22nd and 23rd to ask for prayer and financial assistance for the organization for which he has been working called the Volunteer Missionary Movement. His project is called the Mission Cooperative Plan.
· $500 was recommended for Missionaries of Jesus-Fr. Greg Domilies in Papua New Guinea
· $1000 was recommended for Our Lady of the Mountains Mom’s Nutrition Program.
It was decided to revisit the guidelines for the empowerment fund at the September meeting
Child Protection Kathy reported that the monthly fingerprinting will take place during the school open house. The update class will be held Tuesday August 11th at 7:00. There are 1400 names on our list and many need the update class. Connections a Caring Place is having a rocking chair fundraiser.
Salt and Light Judy’s report is attached.
Twinning Sue reported the trip to Nicaragua was another wonderful experience with the Holy Spirit. Jim Berning gave out 8 hearing aides after working with an audiologist from Managua. The puppet show and puppet making was well received by all the children. The puppets will be used during Story Hour at the library and for the theater classes. The Field Day had over 100 children and youth. The people of the Center were wonderful as always so loving to all of us. Buzz Auvil, Jeannine Blatt and Pat Berning were fun loving participants. There are 23 people who have stated they are interested in next year’s trip
June 10-17. Fr. Tom is thinking of going as well.
Car-X donations to Food from the Heart Sue reported that Car-X will be going $10 coupons for can goods and non-perishable grocery items that are brought to their shops.
Pledge of Nonviolence Teri Fox will coordinate again this year. It will be at Masses on Oct. 3rd and 4th.
Goals and Objectives 2009-2010 Three objectives are being developed for Pastoral Council. hopefully we will have them done by August 1. Fr. Tom has asked us to work on the economic crisis, so that will be one of our objectives. We will be working with St. Vincent de Paul, IHM Job Search Ministry, and the Social Action Collaborative on Foreclosures. Kathy is developing one for child protection. Sue is working with Allison Groetsch and Jane Elfers on another objective for respect of all life. Allison Groetsch has resigned as chair of Respect LIfe but will continue to work with the ministry.
Commission Chair Sue will be stepping down as Social Ministries Advisory Comission chair.
From Sue’s report to the members:
A bit of Social Ministries history:
Louise Lawarre chair over 10 years, Sue Keefe chair 3 years, Pat Berning chair 5
years, Judy O’Brien chair 2 years, Sue Keefe chair 3 years and current chair.
Sherrie Heyse has been assisting me for several years with the Collections and articles for the Heartbeat for which I am ever thankful. This is my last year to chair SMC. We will have discernment in June to determine a new chair or co-chairs for our ministry. I am eager to continue being on the commission and coordinating the Multicultural Mass, Living a Faith that Does Justice, Journey to Justice and our twinning activities with Cultural Center Batahola Norte. Please pray about this. I will send out a list of responsibilities for the chair so that we all know what it entails.
All committee reports emailed to chairperson 5 days before meeting to be sent as an attachment. All reports will be read at the meeting if committee chair is not present.
Next meeting September 14 7:15pm due to Labor Day Sept. 7.
Social Ministries Calendar 2009-10
Christmas in July July 11-12, 2009, July 10-11, 2010
School House Collection August 8-9, 2009
Used Coat Collection October 10-11, 2009
Giving Tree December 5-6, 2009, tags placed 3 weeks before
Undee Sunday January 23-24, 2010
Project 5000 February 20-21, 2010
Baby Shower May 8-9, 2010
Mission Trip to Cultural Center Batahola Norte, Managua June
11-17, 2010
Batahola Garage Sale May 1, 2010 (gym and cafeteria)
Fundraiser for Batahola May 15, 2010 (gym) 8am-11:30pm
Multicultural Mass October 18, 2009 6pm
Living a Faith that Does Justice Dinner February 1, 2010 Heritage
West
Salt and Light October 7-November 4 7:30pm (Heritage West)
PRP /Sunday Social Forums January 10 and February 14 10-11am
(Heritage West)
Journey to Justice March 13-14, 2010 9-5, 9-11:30 (Holy Family
Room)
1/2 Day Workshop Mission Trip May 22, 2010 (Holy Family Room)
Pledge of Nonviolence October 3-4, 2009
Stewards of Children Workshop November 11, 2009 and March 3,
2010 Heritage West
Respect Life 4000 Crosses October 24-November 7, 2009
Respect Life Memorial Service/Mass - January 20, 2010 church
booked
Social Ministries Retreat January 9, 2009 9-12 Sean Ater Hageman
Interfaith Hospitality Network, Anderson Hills Methodist Church
2009: August 9-15, September 27-October 3, December 6-12 rest of
dates to be announced.
City Gospel Mission Soup Kitchen 2009: June 17, July 15,
August 12, September 16, October 21, November 18, December 16,
January 20, February 17, March 17, April 21, May 19
Walnut Hills Soup Kitchen 2009: June 28, August 23, October 25,
February 28, 2010, April 25,2010,
Fair Trade Coffee 2nd weekend of the month
Food from the Heart weekend before the 3rd Monday each month
Judy’s Reports for August Social Ministries Meeting
Our Lady of the Mountains
Since the June meeting Vacation Bible School had OLM come and be part of Mission Day. Each class had the opportunity to meet with Sr. Mary Jane and hear about OLM. She brought pictures for the kids to see and brochures for them to take home. The kids brought in socks and underwear and coins for a monetary gift. They collected 10 laundry baskets of socks and underwear and $189 in coins.
On July 11th about 10 of us made the trip down to Stanton for a retreat day. We were a smaller group than expected because of illnesses. Fr. Fritsch talked on spirituality and the environment. OLM served us a wonderful lunch with the best-fried chicken I have ever tasted.
I had the opportunity to go down for the second day of the socks and underwear giveaway with three of my granddaughters. It was a very good day. This year they had about 150 people sign up which is 50 more than usual so the help from Vacation Bible School and others was extremely helpful.
The this time we would like to go to Pastoral Council with a proposal for going forward on working toward a formal twinning relationship.
Salt and Light
Salt and Light has been advertised in the Bulletin and I will continue to do that. I will put an article in the Heartbeat. Sean will give the info to other DREs in the area.
I plan to start inviting individuals personally and hope others will also. We will advertise it at the Ministry Fair also.
Ministry Fair
My idea for Ministry Fair is to give a door prize so people have a reason to stop at our table. We would make up a basket and put in it products representing each of our ministries with a note attached explaining the connection. The items would be items people could use. It could contain such things as something from Batahola, an energy efficient light bulb, cans of food, something from OLM, maybe a container of some kind with coins in it etc, those types of things. Also I am trying to get us two tables since we represent so many ministries and need the space. I think we should use less big board displays and instead, as much as possible, put individual pictures with the name of each ministry and sign up sheets for each one. That would allow us to stand behind the table and talk to folks more easily
.Coin Collection
The coin collection is up since we started advertising more. The last two weeks it has really been up. Hopefully in the fall we can work with the school and PRP kids to bring it up even more. My aim would be a consistent $150 each week.
Social Ministries Commission Minutes from August 3, 2009
Attendance: John Dettmen, Sean Ater, Sherrie Heyse, Fred Heyse, Teri Fox, Tom Monaco, Margaret Stepp, Carol Kelly, Kathy Weyer, Sue Keefe, Dave Scharfenberger, Jerry Metz and Debbie Metz
Opening Prayer/Formation DVD of Cultural Center Batahola Norte & Prayer
Minutes The minutes were approved.
Announcements It was announced that Rich Delcore will be our new liaison. Sue asked each member to invite someone to Social Ministries Commission. We need to expand our commission as well as develop additional leadership.
Special Report on Foreclosures Dave Scharfenberger of WIN reported on WIN’s efforts to track foreclosure and homes that were lost. WIN has been doing housing counseling. Housing counselors can talk to your mortgage company for you. They can often work out plans to stop foreclosures. Counselors have access to emergency assistance money. WIN has also been doing workshops at parishes in conjunction with the Archdiocesan Catholic Social Action Parish Collaborative. Thsey have been well attended.
Ongoing Reports:
Water Debbie reported new information regarding water projects. Research has shown that millions die annually from contaminated water sources, but children are especially vulnerable. However, when considering supporting a water project, sustainability is crucial. Children are worse off when they have good water for a period of time and then lose it. Many projects in Africa done by organizations with good intentions are now non-functional and have been detrimental to the health of the children.
Collections Christmas in July Sherrie reported that we did well including approx. $2625 in gift cards.
Coin Collection Judy’s report is attached.
Stewards of God’s Creation Sherrie reported that Bruce Burno will be assuming chair responsibilities.
Our Lady of the Mountains Judy’s report is attached.
Immigration Margaret reported that Sissy an immigrant mother for whom the community has been praying was reunited with her family. Additionally, Margaret reported that Pope Benedict spoke out on the importance of keeping families together. Prayer services are being planned to focus on immigration issues.
Empowerment Fund Danny Burridge, a parishioner who we have supported win his mission work will be speaking at the Masses on August 22nd and 23rd to ask for prayer and financial assistance for the organization for which he has been working called the Volunteer Missionary Movement. His project is called the Mission Cooperative Plan.
· $500 was recommended for Missionaries of Jesus-Fr. Greg Domilies in Papua New Guinea
· $1000 was recommended for Our Lady of the Mountains Mom’s Nutrition Program.
It was decided to revisit the guidelines for the empowerment fund at the September meeting
Child Protection Kathy reported that the monthly fingerprinting will take place during the school open house. The update class will be held Tuesday August 11th at 7:00. There are 1400 names on our list and many need the update class. Connections a Caring Place is having a rocking chair fundraiser.
Salt and Light Judy’s report is attached.
Twinning Sue reported the trip to Nicaragua was another wonderful experience with the Holy Spirit. Jim Berning gave out 8 hearing aides after working with an audiologist from Managua. The puppet show and puppet making was well received by all the children. The puppets will be used during Story Hour at the library and for the theater classes. The Field Day had over 100 children and youth. The people of the Center were wonderful as always so loving to all of us. Buzz Auvil, Jeannine Blatt and Pat Berning were fun loving participants. There are 23 people who have stated they are interested in next year’s trip
June 10-17. Fr. Tom is thinking of going as well.
Car-X donations to Food from the Heart Sue reported that Car-X will be going $10 coupons for can goods and non-perishable grocery items that are brought to their shops.
Pledge of Nonviolence Teri Fox will coordinate again this year. It will be at Masses on Oct. 3rd and 4th.
Goals and Objectives 2009-2010 Three objectives are being developed for Pastoral Council. hopefully we will have them done by August 1. Fr. Tom has asked us to work on the economic crisis, so that will be one of our objectives. We will be working with St. Vincent de Paul, IHM Job Search Ministry, and the Social Action Collaborative on Foreclosures. Kathy is developing one for child protection. Sue is working with Allison Groetsch and Jane Elfers on another objective for respect of all life. Allison Groetsch has resigned as chair of Respect LIfe but will continue to work with the ministry.
Commission Chair Sue will be stepping down as Social Ministries Advisory Comission chair.
From Sue’s report to the members:
A bit of Social Ministries history:
Louise Lawarre chair over 10 years, Sue Keefe chair 3 years, Pat Berning chair 5
years, Judy O’Brien chair 2 years, Sue Keefe chair 3 years and current chair.
Sherrie Heyse has been assisting me for several years with the Collections and articles for the Heartbeat for which I am ever thankful. This is my last year to chair SMC. We will have discernment in June to determine a new chair or co-chairs for our ministry. I am eager to continue being on the commission and coordinating the Multicultural Mass, Living a Faith that Does Justice, Journey to Justice and our twinning activities with Cultural Center Batahola Norte. Please pray about this. I will send out a list of responsibilities for the chair so that we all know what it entails.
All committee reports emailed to chairperson 5 days before meeting to be sent as an attachment. All reports will be read at the meeting if committee chair is not present.
Next meeting September 14 7:15pm due to Labor Day Sept. 7.
Social Ministries Calendar 2009-10
Christmas in July July 11-12, 2009, July 10-11, 2010
School House Collection August 8-9, 2009
Used Coat Collection October 10-11, 2009
Giving Tree December 5-6, 2009, tags placed 3 weeks before
Undee Sunday January 23-24, 2010
Project 5000 February 20-21, 2010
Baby Shower May 8-9, 2010
Mission Trip to Cultural Center Batahola Norte, Managua June
11-17, 2010
Batahola Garage Sale May 1, 2010 (gym and cafeteria)
Fundraiser for Batahola May 15, 2010 (gym) 8am-11:30pm
Multicultural Mass October 18, 2009 6pm
Living a Faith that Does Justice Dinner February 1, 2010 Heritage
West
Salt and Light October 7-November 4 7:30pm (Heritage West)
PRP /Sunday Social Forums January 10 and February 14 10-11am
(Heritage West)
Journey to Justice March 13-14, 2010 9-5, 9-11:30 (Holy Family
Room)
1/2 Day Workshop Mission Trip May 22, 2010 (Holy Family Room)
Pledge of Nonviolence October 3-4, 2009
Stewards of Children Workshop November 11, 2009 and March 3,
2010 Heritage West
Respect Life 4000 Crosses October 24-November 7, 2009
Respect Life Memorial Service/Mass - January 20, 2010 church
booked
Social Ministries Retreat January 9, 2009 9-12 Sean Ater Hageman
Interfaith Hospitality Network, Anderson Hills Methodist Church
2009: August 9-15, September 27-October 3, December 6-12 rest of
dates to be announced.
City Gospel Mission Soup Kitchen 2009: June 17, July 15,
August 12, September 16, October 21, November 18, December 16,
January 20, February 17, March 17, April 21, May 19
Walnut Hills Soup Kitchen 2009: June 28, August 23, October 25,
February 28, 2010, April 25,2010,
Fair Trade Coffee 2nd weekend of the month
Food from the Heart weekend before the 3rd Monday each month
Judy’s Reports for August Social Ministries Meeting
Our Lady of the Mountains
Since the June meeting Vacation Bible School had OLM come and be part of Mission Day. Each class had the opportunity to meet with Sr. Mary Jane and hear about OLM. She brought pictures for the kids to see and brochures for them to take home. The kids brought in socks and underwear and coins for a monetary gift. They collected 10 laundry baskets of socks and underwear and $189 in coins.
On July 11th about 10 of us made the trip down to Stanton for a retreat day. We were a smaller group than expected because of illnesses. Fr. Fritsch talked on spirituality and the environment. OLM served us a wonderful lunch with the best-fried chicken I have ever tasted.
I had the opportunity to go down for the second day of the socks and underwear giveaway with three of my granddaughters. It was a very good day. This year they had about 150 people sign up which is 50 more than usual so the help from Vacation Bible School and others was extremely helpful.
The this time we would like to go to Pastoral Council with a proposal for going forward on working toward a formal twinning relationship.
Salt and Light
Salt and Light has been advertised in the Bulletin and I will continue to do that. I will put an article in the Heartbeat. Sean will give the info to other DREs in the area.
I plan to start inviting individuals personally and hope others will also. We will advertise it at the Ministry Fair also.
Ministry Fair
My idea for Ministry Fair is to give a door prize so people have a reason to stop at our table. We would make up a basket and put in it products representing each of our ministries with a note attached explaining the connection. The items would be items people could use. It could contain such things as something from Batahola, an energy efficient light bulb, cans of food, something from OLM, maybe a container of some kind with coins in it etc, those types of things. Also I am trying to get us two tables since we represent so many ministries and need the space. I think we should use less big board displays and instead, as much as possible, put individual pictures with the name of each ministry and sign up sheets for each one. That would allow us to stand behind the table and talk to folks more easily
.Coin Collection
The coin collection is up since we started advertising more. The last two weeks it has really been up. Hopefully in the fall we can work with the school and PRP kids to bring it up even more. My aim would be a consistent $150 each week.
Social Ministries Commission Minutes from August 3, 2009
Attendance: John Dettmen, Sean Ater, Sherrie Heyse, Fred Heyse, Teri Fox, Tom Monaco, Margaret Stepp, Carol Kelly, Kathy Weyer, Sue Keefe, Dave Scharfenberger, Jerry Metz and Debbie Metz
Opening Prayer/Formation DVD of Cultural Center Batahola Norte & Prayer
Minutes The minutes were approved.
Announcements It was announced that Rich Delcore will be our new liaison. Sue asked each member to invite someone to Social Ministries Commission. We need to expand our commission as well as develop additional leadership.
Special Report on Foreclosures Dave Scharfenberger of WIN reported on WIN’s efforts to track foreclosure and homes that were lost. WIN has been doing housing counseling. Housing counselors can talk to your mortgage company for you. They can often work out plans to stop foreclosures. Counselors have access to emergency assistance money. WIN has also been doing workshops at parishes in conjunction with the Archdiocesan Catholic Social Action Parish Collaborative. Thsey have been well attended.
Ongoing Reports:
Water Debbie reported new information regarding water projects. Research has shown that millions die annually from contaminated water sources, but children are especially vulnerable. However, when considering supporting a water project, sustainability is crucial. Children are worse off when they have good water for a period of time and then lose it. Many projects in Africa done by organizations with good intentions are now non-functional and have been detrimental to the health of the children.
Collections Christmas in July Sherrie reported that we did well including approx. $2625 in gift cards.
Coin Collection Judy’s report is attached.
Stewards of God’s Creation Sherrie reported that Bruce Burno will be assuming chair responsibilities.
Our Lady of the Mountains Judy’s report is attached.
Immigration Margaret reported that Sissy an immigrant mother for whom the community has been praying was reunited with her family. Additionally, Margaret reported that Pope Benedict spoke out on the importance of keeping families together. Prayer services are being planned to focus on immigration issues.
Empowerment Fund Danny Burridge, a parishioner who we have supported win his mission work will be speaking at the Masses on August 22nd and 23rd to ask for prayer and financial assistance for the organization for which he has been working called the Volunteer Missionary Movement. His project is called the Mission Cooperative Plan.
· $500 was recommended for Missionaries of Jesus-Fr. Greg Domilies in Papua New Guinea
· $1000 was recommended for Our Lady of the Mountains Mom’s Nutrition Program.
It was decided to revisit the guidelines for the empowerment fund at the September meeting
Child Protection Kathy reported that the monthly fingerprinting will take place during the school open house. The update class will be held Tuesday August 11th at 7:00. There are 1400 names on our list and many need the update class. Connections a Caring Place is having a rocking chair fundraiser.
Salt and Light Judy’s report is attached.
Twinning Sue reported the trip to Nicaragua was another wonderful experience with the Holy Spirit. Jim Berning gave out 8 hearing aides after working with an audiologist from Managua. The puppet show and puppet making was well received by all the children. The puppets will be used during Story Hour at the library and for the theater classes. The Field Day had over 100 children and youth. The people of the Center were wonderful as always so loving to all of us. Buzz Auvil, Jeannine Blatt and Pat Berning were fun loving participants. There are 23 people who have stated they are interested in next year’s trip
June 10-17. Fr. Tom is thinking of going as well.
Car-X donations to Food from the Heart Sue reported that Car-X will be going $10 coupons for can goods and non-perishable grocery items that are brought to their shops.
Pledge of Nonviolence Teri Fox will coordinate again this year. It will be at Masses on Oct. 3rd and 4th.
Goals and Objectives 2009-2010 Three objectives are being developed for Pastoral Council. hopefully we will have them done by August 1. Fr. Tom has asked us to work on the economic crisis, so that will be one of our objectives. We will be working with St. Vincent de Paul, IHM Job Search Ministry, and the Social Action Collaborative on Foreclosures. Kathy is developing one for child protection. Sue is working with Allison Groetsch and Jane Elfers on another objective for respect of all life. Allison Groetsch has resigned as chair of Respect LIfe but will continue to work with the ministry.
Commission Chair Sue will be stepping down as Social Ministries Advisory Comission chair.
From Sue’s report to the members:
A bit of Social Ministries history:
Louise Lawarre chair over 10 years, Sue Keefe chair 3 years, Pat Berning chair 5
years, Judy O’Brien chair 2 years, Sue Keefe chair 3 years and current chair.
Sherrie Heyse has been assisting me for several years with the Collections and articles for the Heartbeat for which I am ever thankful. This is my last year to chair SMC. We will have discernment in June to determine a new chair or co-chairs for our ministry. I am eager to continue being on the commission and coordinating the Multicultural Mass, Living a Faith that Does Justice, Journey to Justice and our twinning activities with Cultural Center Batahola Norte. Please pray about this. I will send out a list of responsibilities for the chair so that we all know what it entails.
All committee reports emailed to chairperson 5 days before m