Pastoral Council Minutes

Nov. 2020 Minutes

Sherri Porterfield

Pastoral Council Meeting (via Zoom)

Monday, Nov. 9, 2020

Members Present:   Julie Harman, Steve Gregoire, Lou Angles, Kevin Nordhues, Dan Bacon, Hugo Mendoza, Marla Neal, & Libby Hernandez.

Members Absent: Arsenio Arciga, Patrick Schaub

Guests: Deacon Chuck

Opening prayer by Kevin, and then the meeting was opened. Minutes from the Oct. 2020 meeting were approved.  approved

Deacon Chuck discussions:

 

  • Jim Newell retirement next Friday
  • COVID-19 shut down in house meetings – TMIY, Chuck’s meetings,
  • Clean up – now is a wipe-down
  • Christmas masses – expanded to one extra mass on Christmas eve and Christmas day
    • 2, 4:30, 7 and 10 pm – Christmas eve
    • 8 and 10:30 Christmas day
    • Plan to set up the parish hall downstairs, but only if upstairs is full
      • Eucharistic Minister would go downstairs for communion
    • Good response for cleaning crews. This might be harder during Christmas masses
    • Daryl in process of putting packets together – Advent resources
      • Story of Poinsettia
      • Jesse Tree
      • Advent Wreath
      • P/U Nov. 22nd on Feast of Christ the King
    • Feast of St. Francis
    • New Live-Stream Equipment has arrived and has been set up, but we’re not yet live-streaming. The trainer to help us go live presently has COVID.  It is supposed to be up and going by Christmas masses.  It was actually up and running on the Feast of Christ the King, Nov. 22nd.
    • Plan is to live-stream all Christmas masses
    • Steve G. & Dan sent info. to Katie for online giving, so it should be up and running soon (INTERNAL ONLY)
    • Our Lady of Guadalupe Mass – Friday, Dec. 11th @ 6 pm
      • Drive up curb service meal is planned
    • Jim Newell’s Retirement Party (outside by garages) – Friday, Nov. 13th from 4-7 pm (Set-up at 2:30 pm)
      • K of C making the food and the Pastoral Council is serving
      • Food
        • Hot dogs & Hamburgers
        • Baked Beans
        • Chips
        • Cookies from Alter Society
        • Beer, Wine, Pop & bottled water
      • People are to bring their own chairs

 

Libby Hernandez discussion:

  • School Auction Update
    • Huge success – Profit right at $100K
    • Parents all came together
    • 187 registered viewers, likely double that for participants
    • Considering some type of hybrid event in the future (in person & virtual)
  • COVID at school
    • 4 classrooms quarantined with 4 positive cases, one in each class
    • The cohort are the remaining students that quarantine and they learn virtually during the quarantine
    • 4 classes out of 23 are quarantined, but the other 19 still attending school
    • There is a protocol checklist for determining COVID symptoms

 

Kevin Nordhues discussions:

 

  • Hearing Aid Program
    • 4-6 hearing aid set-ups are available, but not until pandemic issues are over
    • After our hopeful return to normalcy, the plan is to put up a sign about these hearing aids – available on a first-come-first-serve basis
    • How much – Could people buy their own? Kevin will check with Danny Baker on this.
  • Coat Drive
    • Use same signs for bulletin and church monitors as were used last year
    • Start posting on Sunday, Nov. 22, 2020.
    • Like last year, we will have separate areas in the old Narthex for adult coats and children coats
    • Ask Danny to put this in cantor announcements
    • Again, because of COVID, the plan will be to segregate coats for 4 days before taking them our St. James sister parish downtown

 

Dan Bacon discussion:

 

  • PUB – Pull up Burrito meal – 400 for meal
    • Raised $3K
    • Money for our Lady of Guadalupe Statue & K of C expenses
  • There will possibly be another pull up meal – Breakfast Burritos sometime in January of 2021

 

New Business

  • Talked again about possibility of restarting Sunday night masses. Father did not want to do this until the present masses are full.  Difficult to get ministers and requirement for more cleaning.
  • Need a lot of people for Christmas for parking, seating, policing to keep total attendance at 600
  • Need of prayers as we have had more funerals as of late.
  • NO communal penance service this year.

 

Next meeting – The next pastoral council meeting is scheduled for Monday, Dec. 7th – one week early to better plan for Christmas – opening prayer by Patrick Schaub.

Closing Prayer – Deacon Chuck