Dear Parishioners, +JMJ We had our first pastoral council meeting of the year on October 17th. My report to the parish has been delayed, because I wanted to give the Bishop bulletin space with his “Leading the Flock” column. I’m pretty determined that we all
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Dear Parishioners, +JMJ Congratulations to all of our children who received First Communion last weekend! What a big day for you and your families! And for the parish! If you think about the fact that the Eucharist floods our being with amazing grace each time we
Read more →Dear Parishioners, +JMJ First of all, thank you so much to everybody who put so much work into our Discipleship Ministry Fair this past weekend, especially our Discipleship Coordinators from each campus, and the leaders of the service areas who prepared displays for the fair. My
Read more →Dear Parishioners, +JMJ This past week we had another Pastoral Council meeting. I took the opportunity to update the Council on where we stand with the whole volunteer life structure project. I reiterated the history behind my desire better to organize our volunteer ministries: the fact
Read more →+JMJ Dear Parishioners, On Thursday, April 23 we had another pastoral council meeting. Here are some highlights: -We noted that the demolition of the Payne rectory should be happening this week. At our last pastoral council meeting, we learned that there is a group from Payne interested
Read more →+JMJ Dear Parishioners, On December 10 we had another pastoral Council meeting. Below are highlights: -We discussed impressions of both the wine tasting event at Payne and the bazaar at Paulding. Both events seemed pretty successful financially. But even more importantly, they both seemed to be very
Read more →+JMJ Dear Parishioners, On Thursday, October 22, we had our first pastoral Council meeting of the Fall. Here is a summary: I expressed my gratitude for those members of the pastoral council whose terms have just ended: Mari Ivan, Jane Benschneider, Joe Reinhart and Michael Johnson. We
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