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Saint
Luke Catholic
Church
1111
Beach Park Boulevard, Foster City, CA
94404
(650)
345-6660 .
FAX: (650) 345-8167
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Parish
Council Minutes
Minutes
of the meeting January 19, 2005
Members/Staff
present: - Fr. Jack, Al Huber, Kevin
Lucia, Paul Lucia, Mary True, George
Arackaparambil, JoAnn Kozloski, Ngoc Anh Nguyen,
Gail Castro, John Sanchez
Following handouts were distributed by Al Huber :
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- Minutes of the last meeting
- Agenda for current meeting
Meeting began with Opening Prayer by
JoAnn
This was followed by approval of minutes of the
previous parish council meeting held on 15th
November .
Updates on various committees were provided as
below:
- Finance (update
from Gail) -Total of $60449
was received for the Archdiocesan Annual Appeal
for 2004 falling short by only $7050 of the
target $67500; This year's goal is $69300; Sue
and Gail to write up a general appeal for this
year's annual appeal to be announced at masses;
Gail to weave parish mission statement with
finance talk; A bid for cutting trees was
received from Lorail (uncertain of the
spelling)
- Buildings &
Grounds (update from Al) -
Mens washroom work done, some more left;
Drinking water fountain fixed, Currently washing
down all chairs and refinishing them; Doors will
require external help, as too heavy; Al took a
look at the Handicapped restroom leaking issue -
hard to diagnose but will take another look.
- Catholic Formation
(update from Kevin) - Tuesday
faith formation group meetings had a few breaks
due to Volunteer party, Handwritten Bible
presentation held on some of the Tuesdays;
Father Farisy's healing mass was well attended,
Guest choir was from Antioch at no charge. Next
Healing Masses are on Aug18th and Oct 27th.
Thanks acknowledged to Anthony (Ngocs husband)
for helping install the screen for the Hand
Written Bible presentation.; Thursday at Crowne
Plaza (1-800-787-8707 xtn 4011) "Whole Community
Cathechsis" open to all
- Parish Life (update
from Gail - on behalf of Robin)
- Crab feed March 5th is on
target; Is being viewed more as a community
builder than a huge fund raiser; Spaghetti feed
by Youth Group is on January 30th ; March 24th
potluck - need to find staff member to organize
it as Gail is not available. ; Women's retreat
is on 25th February (Gail is in charge); Mention
was made about a Penitential service(didn't
catch complete details); Christmas pageant was
not held at 10.30 mass (2 parents complained
their children did not have opportunity to
participate); 4.00 pm mass was a success for the
children's pageant ; Elaine has suggested for
next year that the 10.30 am be a youth mass so
youth participation is possible around
Christmas.
- Public Affairs
(update from Paul) - 50
passenger Bus was arranged (there were more
people than seats available) for the West Coast
Walk for life on Jan 22nd; "Souper Bowl"
(collection for soups) is on Feb 6th; Article on
the Hand Written Bible presentation held at St
Luke's will be in article in the San Jose
Catholic - per Fr Jack);
- Social Justice
(update from John) - No
additional update - apart from the Walk for life
on January 22nd mentioned earlier by Paul.
Discuss Parish Goals for
2005
- Al reminded goal from last meeting to
reflect on red book
- Has some points in mind but not sure how
to go about it (not deliberative, but
collaborative)
- Al feels 6 of 8 goals are applicable to
St. Luke's, Fr. Jack should decide which goals
to focus on this year
- Members asked to read section 3 of red
booklet
- JoAnn distributed and discussed a handout
on her thoughts on goals for 2005
- John thought it was important to have a
follow up to the RCIA program - to reinforce the
faith of the new entrants.
- Fr. Jack asked to focus on how to get
people to turnout
- Paul/JoAnn : how to get people first into
church and then to into the Community space
(instead of the other way around).
- Brief discussion on making some kind of
announcement that will help fostering vocations
to the priesthood/deacons/religious life, eg.
the fact that the average age of seminarians in
the US is 36 years - meaning it is not too late
to pursue this vocation.
- Not sure what happened to the "Cross for
Vocations Program" that was to be followed in
the parish.
- Fr. Jack mentioned considering a door to
door census on nominal Catholics
Miscellaneous
- Bong prefers not to join the council.
Need to fill in this position (Ethnic
participation preferred by Al)
New
Business
- Now new business this time
Donut Duty List
- List for signups for Donut Duty was
distributed and filled in.
Assignments for
next time
- Next meeting Presidents Day Feb 21st
- John Sanchez to do the opening and
closing prayer.
Meeting
concluded with Closing prayer by JoAnn.
(Minutes prepared by: - George
Arackaparambil)
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