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The Parish Pastoral Council serves as a means of communication between the clergy and laity of the parish. The council identifies the needs of the parish and acts upon them. It encourages involvement of the parishioners in all phases of parish work. The council functions according to the spirit of Vatican II and according to the guidelines of the Pastoral Directives of the Diocese of Knoxville. The council membership is composed of the Pastor, assistant Pastors, chairman, vice chairman, and fourteen members. The paid staff of the parish are not eligible to be voting members of the Parish Council. Any parish member 18 years of age or older is eligible to serve on the council as an elected member. All council members must be registered at Our Lady of Fatima and practicing Catholics. A council member is eligible to serve for two consecutive terms, for a total of six years. They may run for election again after an absence of one year. The nominating committee is announced in September. They approach other eligible parishioners and compile a list to be published for election the second Sunday of November. Newly elected members assume office at the December council meeting. The council is made up of the following committees: Administration and Stewardship: Serves the material needs of the parish. This committee concerns itself with the parish budget and fund raising in addition to overseeing the maintenance of the parish. Fund raising and stewardship is also a very important part of this committee. Education: Coordinate and identify all religious education needs of the parish with the assistance of the Director of Religious Education. This includes preschool, grades 1-8, high school youth ministry, and adult education. For more complete information regarding the Education Program at OLOF, refer to the CCD Handbook furnished by the CCD office (call 981-2676).
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Parish Council meetings are generally held
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Our Lady of Fatima Parish Council Minutes February 9, 2010 Attendance: Greg Ward, Steve Kintzele, Mary Burkhart, Martha Green, Carl Muse, Phil Malach Absent: Fr. Bede Claudia Huddleston, James Haug, Guest: Tony Hartman Meeting was called to order at 6:32 Greg led the council in an opening prayer. The November and January minutes were read and approved. New Business Lenten meals will go back to the old way. The Parish Council will serve the first and the rest of the parish groups will take a Friday and host a meal. Greg Ward will get in touch with the groups and set up a schedule. Martha Green asked if we could decorate the tables, a little, like she has seen in other church’s centers. It will be looked into and brought up again next month. It was asked how much was left on the purchasing of the organ. $320.00 is what is left to have the organ completely paid for. There is a concern of several parishioners about the priests or Eucharist Ministers taking Holy Communion to people that sit in the back of the church. They believe that they should sit in the front row. After a discussion it was decided that we can’t force people to sit up front if they do not want to. We will discuss it further with Fr. Bede. Old Business There will be eight (8) tables with eight (8) chairs per table to be left set up at all times. On the weekends of March 14 and 21 sheets will be handed out for the parishioners to nominate people for the upcoming election for the parish council. Nominations would be accepted until the end of March. The election will be held on May 16th. New members would attend first meeting in June. Mike Alley has submitted his resignation from the council by email to Greg. There has been a meeting for the 10th anniversary/ 5year commitment to reduce the debt celebration attended by Brownie, Greg, John Smith and Coleen Haribson. There are a number of parishioners who were not here when we first started the campaign to build the church. There is another meeting scheduled for tomorrow 2-10-10. Committee Reports Family Life: The Mom’s Group is starting to collect items for their annual children’s clothing fund raising collection for the Playground Equipment. The question has been brought up about Trunk or Treat this year. We will have it and we will begin the preparation shortly. Education: No report. Tony Hartman informed the council that Joyce has pneumonia; Beth Parsons is stepping in to help. Also the council was informed that Al Hinger had passed away. Worship and Spiritual Life: Ash Wednesday masses will be 8:00 am, 12 noon, and 7:00pm which will be bilingual. Lenten Prayer Service will be on March 22, 2010 at 7:00 The Holy Week service schedule will be set at the next Liturgy meeting. Why Catholic? 7th session has started. Women’s Cursillo was held last weekend during the snow storm. It was held at Eagle Rock and was an exciting experience for the women. Social Action: Food Connection wanted Martha to say thank you to the parish for their support of the food which is collected here. They need everything that is donated. They have doubled the number of people that they are currently helping. Our school in Haiti was not directly affected by the earthquake; they are getting a lot of people coming up there because of the higher ground they are located at. We have already sent $5,100.00 to them and will be sending another 10.000.00 shortly. We also will be sending the teachers salaries. They have asked Fr.Wilfranc what they need so that we can get cartons together and send it to them. Parish Life: No Report Communication: No Report Administration: Waiting for the rain to come from the right direction so that they can find out where the leak in the roof is over the library. The meeting was adjourned at 7:35; the council then went to the Adoration Chapel to pray for Joyce, Al, the rest of the parish and their own intentions.
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APRIL MEETING Attendance: Fr. Bede, Greg Ward, Steve Kintzele, Mary
Burkhart, Claudia Huddleston, James Haug Meeting was called to order at 6:40 Greg led the council in an opening prayer. The March minutes were read and approved. Old Business: The question was asked what happened to the last Lenten meal. People showed up but there was no meal. Everybody thought that the Knights were supposed to do the last meal. It was believed that there was a lack of communication. We are going back to the old way of having different Ministries doing a meal. A schedule will be made up so that everybody knows who and when they are scheduled to do the meal. The list of nominations of candidates was passed out. A letter will be sent out to all the candidates. Eighteen people were nominated to be asked for their consideration to placed on the ballot to be voted on for Parish Council. Election will be held the weekend of May 29-30. Committee Reports: Family Life: the Easter egg hunt was a huge success, had lots of kids show up and everyone had a good time. A letter will be sent out to thank all who were involved in doing this project. The clothing sales will be in August. The collected donations for six weeks and received a ton of stuff. They are in the process of going through everything and sorting it out will be stated in June. It was brought up that there was a wedding and they left the nursery a mess. A letter was given to Tony. Education: Worship and Spiritual Life: Why Catholic, session six, is winding down and will
start again in the fall. Claudia mentioned the Anniversary Celebration, a skit that the CCD children will put on at mass on May 16th. Steve will write something up and get it to Claudia. Brownie will be here May 1st and 2nd and talked about the history of our parish. This will be done at the homily during the Masses. Social Action: Parish Life: Communication CYO: They had their Spaghetti dinner and Auction and raised $7,000.00. The Graduation Program is still being planned. Administration: New Business The CCW will incorporate the Anniversary theme into their High Tea in June. They did not want to commit to any thing later in the year because of elections coming up. They maybe do something later in the year. Knights of Columbus will be getting back to Claudia on what they will get involved in. Joyce will also be getting back with Claudia on what they will be doing. Music group will also be working on something, possibly during the holidays. The question was raised about the Aldi’s deal if it had closed.Fr. Bede said that they had received the key so that they could go in and look around and see what we wanted. There has to be insurance for us to go in there incase someone would get hurt. Tom Witt is looking into this. The council discussed doing something for Deacon Joe as a Good-bye celebration for his services at Our Lady of Fatima. Tony will contact Deacon Joe to see what date would be good for him. Fr. Bede led the closing prayer. Meeting was closed at 7:52 NO MINUTES HAVE BEEN RECEIVED BY THE WEBMASTER SINCE MAY, 2010. A person on the PPC is responsible for sending these for posting on the OLOF Web Site in a timely manner.
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