September 21, 2005 Meeting Minutes

Minutes of the Meeting of the St. Therese Pastoral Council
September 21, 2005

The Pastoral Council met September 21, 2005 in the St. Therese Parish and Education Center. Pris Pawlikowski, Fr. Mike Roach, Linda Winter, Nancy Fahey, Damian Gerstner, Wayne Snyder, Tom Skorupa, Joe Doetzl, Linda Albani and Dennis Meier were present

Facilitator: Damian Gerstner
Scribe: Joe Doetzl

Linda Winter led prayer with a reflection on a reading from 2 Philippians.

Linda Discussed results from the giftedness sub-group. Two main themes arose from their discussions “exploring our gifts” and “channeling our gifts”.

Tom shared some resources that could be used to identify spiritual gifts.

Dennis shared results from the “personal and caring” sub group.

Wayne and Tom shared results from the “faith Formation” group. There recommendation was to have a “year of prayer”, to both strengthen our parish’s prayer life and to wait on the results from the diocesan study of faith formation.

Tom provided copies of a letter soliciting feedback regarding diocesan faith formation needs.

Damian summarized results from the leadership sub-group.

Our next meeting is October 5th at 6:30.

Prayer: Pris
Facilitator: Dennis
Scribe: Joe

September 7, 2005 Meeting Minutes

Minutes of the Meeting of the St. Therese Pastoral Council
September 7, 2005

The Pastoral Council met September 7, 2005 in the Wooldridge Center. Wayne Snyder, Damian Gerstner, Fr. Mike Roach, Linda Winter, Joe Doetzl, Tom Skorupa, Pris Pawlikowski, Linda Albani and Brad Grill were present

Facilitator: Damian Gerstner
Scribe: Joe Doetzl

We opened the meeting with a gospel prayer from the idea gathering sessions.

A discussion of the previous idea gathering sessions followed. Joe agreed to type up and distribute objectives from the idea gathering meetings.

We discussed Parish staff members to involve in the process:

• Goal A – To form Catholic faith filled witnesses of Christ: Wayne, Tom, Kathy Teson, Elizabeth Barmann
  
• Goal B – To create a more caring and personal parish community: Dennis, Nancy, Pris, Jane Gallagher, Nancy Borman
  
• Goal C – To explore and channel our giftedness: Linda W., Brad, Fr. Mike, Tracy Torres
  
• Goal D – To enhance and develop leadership structures to support the parish Vision: Damian, Joe, Linda A., Pat Burbach, Ginny Feeney

We decided to involve the Parish staff as soon as possible.

Our next meeting is 9/21. Damian will facilitate, Joe will Scribe, Wayne will prepare prayer.