Minutes of the St Raymond Pastoral Council Meeting

Date: November 5, 2009

Location: Parish Office Front Conference Room

Members Present:

Pat Kohnen,

Matt Troiano, Fr. Bob McCann, Connie Kersten, Bob Reguilon

Absent: Janet Egler, Mark Bales, Christian Favor

Meeting convened at: 7:03

Opening Prayer by

Pat Kohnen.

Approval of Minutes from October 1

Meeting:

The minutes were approved as corrected. M, Bob Reguilon;

S,

Matt Troiano

Unfinished Business:

Pastoral Council Guidelines: The draft was discussed and several revisions were suggested. Pat will prepare

another draft and send it to all Council members to review again at the December meeting.

StrengthsFinder Update: Bob Reguilon

has been coaching. Diana Bitz gave a presentation for the Women’s

Guild. Several people purchased books and some have made counseling appointments with Diana. We should

all encourage people who take the survey to follow through with coaching. Fr Bob gave a presentation to the

Knights of Columbus. Janet Egler will be doing a presentation for Wings on December 2. Fr Bob will do a

presentation at the next school Faculty Meeting. We should all emphasize the positive nature of the

StrengthsFinder process when we talk to people about it. We are looking forward to more engagement of

parishioners with the Parish Community as more people complete the StrengthsFinder survey and coaching.

Fr

Bob reported that the Staff is answering a StrengthsFinder question at each meeting. Two questions have been,

How have you used one of your

talents this week? How have your talents worked together this week?

 On

January 9 there is a StrengthsFinder meeting planned for the Diocese. Pastoral Council members should plan to

attend.

Mission Statement and three fold brochure: Mark Bales will meet with Janet Egler to review the current

draft to present to the entire council at the December meeting.

Gymnasium:

Need to look for a new person to head an exploration committee since Kevin Blanco has moved

to Texas with his family.

Pictures for Website: Pat will send a request to the web master to remove Kevan’s picture and update the

labels for Chair, Vice-Chair and Recorder.

Topics for Current Meeting:

Update

Pastoral Council Roster:

 The Pastoral Council Roster was passed around to confirm information. Pat

will ask Janet, Mark and Christian to confirm their information and then prepare a current roster that does not

include Kevan.

Pastoral Report:

St Raymond

School: There

has been an increase of 6 students at the school.

Animal Blessing:

This was a successful event.

Special Collection: About $10,000 was collected to send to Catholic Relief Services to help in the Philippines.

Holiday Food Basket Project:

Religious Education and St Vincent de Paul are cooperating on this project.

Social Justice Health Care Panel:

This was a very informative evening for the people who attended. The

audience was small.

New Sound System:

It was installed on Tuesday and is being tweaked. Four special listening devices will be

available for parishioners to use at Mass

or at other events held in the Church.

This fulfills a request from town

hall meetings held to develop the Parish Strategic Plan. The Parish may be able to help parishioners purchase

their own personal device.

The cost for the sound system is $50,000. Some parishioners are making special

donations for the new sound system.

October Count:

The count was down a little. The ushers do a count of the congregation at each Mass during

the month of October.

Job link:

There is a meeting weekly to help people look for work.

Parking Lot Break-ins: There have been some car break-ins in the Church parking lot. People should not leave

valuables in plain sight and should lock their cars. Neighboring Parishes have had break-ins to buildings, but St

Raymond has not. The Dublin Police have said there have been car break-ins throughout the City,

Closing Prayer by

Matt Troiano.

For the next meeting Matt Troiano will do the opening prayer and Bob Reguilon

will do the closing prayer.

Meeting adjourned at

8:40

pm.

The December meeting will be on December 17. Connie, Pat and Matt volunteered to bring some holiday

treats and we hope that Mark will contribute some of his wine.

Respectfully submitted,

Pat Kohnen