I. Members Present:

Patty Hadden		Joe Zins		Ann McMackin
Donna Paterson		Michael Vilaboy
Shirley Brunsman		Amy Vonderhaar

II. Ex Offico Members Present

Fr. Jack		Kevin Vance		Chris Siciliano

III. Members Absent

Bill Benvie		Anita Bidleman		Jan McManus
Jodie Bender

IV Opening Prayer

Members attended The Stations of the Cross service in church at 7pm.

V Approval of Minutes

Patty moved to accept and Donna seconded. All members were in favor.

VI Reports

Before the reports were given Joe, shared with the commission a story and demonstration to help each person on the commission better understand the value of working together.

A. Pastor Fr. Jack

1. Christ Renews His Parish is the weekend of May 4 and 6 for the men of our parish. Contact Joe Meyer for more information. A women's Christ Renews His Parish is planned for the fall of 2001. The weekend in May of Christ Renews His Parish, wll be given by members of St. Susanna's parish for our parish. After the weekend the participants meet on a weekly basis to prepare to continue prayer and fellowship and to prepare to give a retreat for other adults. This would than become an ongoing adult faith experience for our parish.

2. Members of our parish are going to Harlan, Kentucky to meet with are twining parish, St Michael. The purpose of the twining is for youth mission trips, clothing drives and parishes community prayer.

3. Meetings are being held to help with racial awareness at St. Vivian. The Amos group is helping with the meetings.

 

B. Religious Education/ Pastoral Associate Chris Siciliano

There is a new group that has formed at St. Vivian for those who like to knit and or crochet. Garments or afghans are being made for those in need like: the Pregnancy Care Center and the Winton Terrace Guild. The items can be either made at home or at church with a group. Contact the church for more information.

 

The Little Black Book for Lent were distributed to those who ordered them and to those who are on the home communion list. The Little White Books for Easter are on order. Next year there will be a new series of Little Books.

See the attached report from Chris.

 

C. Temporal Affairs Michael Vilaboy

The Temporal Affairs meeting is later in March and the budget will be discussed.

 

D. Director of Youth Ministry/ Religious Education Jodie Bender

Donna reported that Jodie felt the programs were going well.

 

E. Principal Kevin Vance

1. A Teacher in service is Friday March 16 at St. Monica St. George church. Chris helped set up the programs.

2. Kevin related that he has talked to the teachers and staff concerning children violence in school. Charlene Ponti-Zins has also counseled the teachers about children's behavior to be aware of in relation to school violence. 

3.Concert choir received the highest score possible when they performed at Mount St. Joseph. Donna said they looked and sounded very good.

4.The Eight-grade trip to Washington D. C. is March 21-24. All the eighth grade students are going along with six chaperones. The students were involved with planning for the trip and planning fundraiser so all students could attend. Representative Banner office also helped plan the trip. The cost of the trip is $250 for each student.

5.Enrollment for next year at St. Vivian is close to the same number of students as last year. Some classes are closed to any more students. Next years Eighth grade, half /day kindergarten, next years Third grade and the preschool are closed. Some families who have come to St. Vivian cannot enroll all their children at St. Vivian because of the closed classes. Each homeroom is full with 24 students.

6. Mr. Vance's report is attached.

VII Unfinished Business

A. Candidate orientation for those who wish to be members of the Education Commission next year is on Wednesday April 4, 2001 at 7pm.in the Faculty Langue. Ann and Michael will attend to answer questions along with Jim Gleason who is the Archdiocese director of the office of Religious Education.

1. The list of names of those who were nominated for Education Commission for 2001-2004 were given out. Each person on the commission was asked to call eight or nine of the nominees to ask them to run and answer any of their questions. Voting for the new members will be at mass the weekend of May 19 and 20.

2. The meeting dates for next year will be discussed at our May 17th meeting when the new members are present.

VIII New Business

A. Michael brought up his concerns about Adult Catechist. We may want to produce a survey to help find out what adults of the parish want with respect to adult catechist. This would give the commission a starting point and feedback.

1.The church census is being updated and this may help with the commission's goals Father will check and Michael offered to help.

B. Last year the commission sent home a survey for parents. Much discussion continued about surveys. Kevin felt that the accreditation process for school would contain the survey for school. Joe felt that a PSR survey could be done and that should be a topic for the small group discussion. Patty asked about a survey for parents to find out how the school year went. Patty would find about other school surveys. The survey last year did not address the issue that some families have more than one child in the school. Discussion followed with no concrete dission.

C. Chris reminded the commission that adult faith is an on going process and we may want to read the document Our Hearts are Burning, a Pastoral Plan for Adult Faith Formation More discussion about adult faith, our family faith, surveys and the goals of are small groups continued. Chris felt that the members of the commission would benefit from reading the Pastoral Plan. It was decided that the members of the commission would read the first part of the Pastoral document, Our Hearts are Burning to continue the adult faith meetings we attainted and this may help set a direction for our adult faith formation.

1. For our next meeting, May 17 the members of the commission are asked to read Pages 49 to 61,which is the introduction and the 1st and 2nd chapters of Our Heats Are Burning.

2. For the meeting on June 21 read pages 62 to 84, the 3rd and 4th chapters of Our Hearts Are Burning.

 

V Guests and Observers

Jean Margello representative for the teachers and an absent Jan McManus

VI Announcements

Next meeting is Thursday May 17 in the Rectory Basement

VII Adjournment

Motioned by Shirley

Seconded by Michael

Adjourned at 9pm.