St.Norbert’s Parish Council Meeting Minutes

Thursday Nov. 17th 
Attendance: Fr. Jim Mitulski, Kevin McMichael, Jill Anselm, Tom Kienstra,

Bud Alexander, Joe Mooney, 

Absent: John Brendel, Carol Schneider, Peggy Scott, Ken Poorman 

Opening Prayer: Jill Anselm 

Introductions:

Joan Thoma who is now a St. Norbert parishioner helped facilitate our Parish council planning meeting. Joan is a consultant with the Archdiocese of St Louis

and conducts Parish Council Workshops. 

  1. We talked about the strengths and weaknesses of our parish. We did an exercise to determine what areas to pursue to make our parish more vibrant.
  2. How should the Parish move forward to keep the Parish alive
  3. How can we form a community together??

 Old Business:

John Brendel’s work schedule will not allow him to serve in the parish council faculty. He resigned his position effective immediately. 

New Business : 

  1. We talked about ways to get more involvement from more of our parishioners.
  2. Retention before Evangelization, let’s keep the participating parishioners happy and involved at St Norberts.
  3. How do we get the other 2/3 of our parish to get more involved in the Parish
  4. Each family should ask another family that hasn’t attended Church in a while to come and join us at mass.
  5. Fr Jim suggested that we make a “Video Collage” and show it at the masses on Sunday, this would show off all the different organizations at our Parish. It worked well at Fr. Jim’s former Church.
  6. Have a “Family Retreat Day” our committees and organizations could present some of what they do in breakout rooms on this Family Day
  7. Long Term Goal” should lead into Evangelization of our members who are not participating. 

         Pastors Report: 
  1. Picked Dec 8th for our first 3 hour Apollos meeting at our regular Parish Council Meeting time. Parish council members, staff and finance committee members should attend.
  2. Fr. Jim passed out a booklet for all to read regarding the “Northeast Deanery Strategic Planning Committee.
  1. Fr Jim suggested that we need a “Parish Marketing Committee” to recruit new members to our Parish and keep the current members involved and happy.

Breaking News : 

We chose a new member of the Parish Council to replace John Brendel,

All the former Parish Council member volunteers were placed in a hat. 
Pat Viets name was chosen to fill the new position 

Closing Prayer: Tom Kienstra (and it was a good one)