St. Isidore Parish Pastoral Council

May 8, 2008

Members Attending: Fr. Dave, Deacon Charlie Cornell, Ed Reverdy, Laureen DeBenedetto, Dave Goulet, Charlie Corley, Sue Ormond, Cara Schomp, Jack Waldie

Members Absent: Brian Perreault, Marcia Melone, Bill Sullivan

Parish Finance Committee Liaison: Rosario Rizzo (not present)

Minutes

• Meeting of March 13, 2008 reviewed and minutes approved.

• No April minutes.

PPC Election

• PPC Election – until four candidates are secured, date of election is unsure.

• Jennifer Cunningham is secured as a candidate for PPC.

• Other considerations were discussed. Ed R. to check with a few, Deacon Charlie to follow up with one.

Pastoral Planning Committee

• At our April 10th PPC meeting, we met with the PFC for a workshop led by Sister Mary Anne Doyle, C.S.J., Business Manager to help us all to understand what it means to budget to mission and the impact on staff, PPC, and PFC.

• Ed R. reviewed Sr. Mary Anne’s description of the “Role of the PPC”

  • “To assist the Pastor in his leadership role of:

Planning, organizing, initiating, promoting, coordinating and reviewing…the evangelization, worship, religious education and service activities within a parish.”

• We are successful in some of these roles and need to strengthen our efforts in other areas.

• Deacon Charlie offered books titled “Dreams and Visions” to all PPC members as a resource to guide us in our pastoral mission.

  • He went on to offer that it is the PPC’s mission to make it possible for people to encounter Christ.

• Charlie Corley worked on a mission statement for St. Isidore’s keeping in mind that it shouldn’t be long and should be easily understood.

• This mission statement along with the current and a sample as recommended by Bill Heubsch (provided by Deacon Charlie) will be posted on the St. Isidore website bulletin board.

  • Each PPC member should use the bulletin board to communicate with each other regarding our progress on St. Isidore’s mission statement.

  • Deacon Charlie and Charlie Corley will review comments before the June PPC meeting.

Building and Grounds Committee

• Dave G. says it is up and running.

• Looking to use volunteers within the community versus paid professionals when possible.

• Idea brought forward that the St. Isidore community should be kept aware of what the B&G Committee is doing so more volunteers may step forward and/or collections may increase knowing what the money is providing for the parish.

Other News

Youth Group in the works spear headed by Andy Crosby.

• Starting with middles school grades.

• Looking at starting with four activities over next year

• In collaboration with Maynard is a possibility.

Meeting finished at 9:02 PM. Next meeting – June 12th @ 7:30 PM

Respectfully submitted,

Laureen DeBenedetto, 05/09/2008