North Country Deanery Pastoral Council Meeting

April 17 2010, Murgon

 

Present:  Cavell Black, Sr Eunice, Fr Pat Dowd, Pat Deeley, Denise Rapkins,  Helen Bonanno, Kay Dove, Berry Doak, Ross Hamilton, Fr Joseph Hien Van Vo, Fr John Hong, Wayne Jensen, Tom Bushell, Kim Koster, Elaine Madill, Kathy Banney, Fr Pat Cassidy

Apologies: James Curtain, Fr Paul, Fr John Khoai, Gay Gordon, Hope Koster, Betty Young, Teresa Hodson

Minutes:  Accepted

Business arising :

*Julie to  email youth contacts, and organize a meeting to start  preparing for the Deanery Youth Day (August)

* Fr Bill O'Shea's presentation in Gympie (Movement for a Better World)  was to be in May, but has been postponed.  Jack Crough, PPC chair in Gympie, will let us know the dates, so any other deanery members can attend, if they are interested.   The presentation is an all day event, and Gympie parish plans to implement the follow up  program .

Correspondence:  A letter sent to our dean by Bishop Brian was read  out – it was the approval for the $34 000 deanery level funds (this includes administration, wages for coordinator, $16 000 for all parishes to send people to Pray 2010, etc. See budget)

Deanery funding to parishes:

FOR  PAYMENT OF INVOICES, OR REIMBURSEMENTS FROM DEANERY FUNDS: All invoices to be sent to:  Mary Kirkpatrick,  St Mary's Catholic Parish, 269 Adelaide St, Maryborough 4650 .  If this is money to be reimbursed, please include the name of the reimbursee, and their address, so a cheque can be sent.

Fr John Hong asked about the money which is not spent in any one year.  He suggests that this money be used for the future. This has been discussed with the Archdiocese in previous years – if any project is ongoing i.e it begins in one year and continues in the following year, or invoices are to be paid in the following year, that is OK. However, keeping money for future years, with no definite project already started , is not allowed.  Looking on the positive side, this does ensure that each parish does some planning, in order to access the funds in the immediate future.

Julie was asked to send out the parish expenditure statement for this year so far, with these minutes (though not much has been spent as yet, due to parishes finalizing and sending in their plans)

Julie is still waiting on 3 parishes to send in their plan/application.  Kay asked if spending could begin now – and the answer is yes.  There is money in the account,  (from the approved deanery level funding) SO  (we are assuming our parish level funding will get approval!) parishes may begin spending. 

IT was suggested that the synod priorities and examples of ways to implement, be sent to all parishes  (Julie to find some which the archdiocese sent to all parishes a  couple of years ago……….)

It was suggested that budget updates be always sent to PPC chairs.  (all but two  of the chairs are actually members of the DPC, but Julie will send a separate mail out to PPC chairs)  Please note:  all DPC reps need  to be updating their PPC's on deanery activities, funding, etc.

Kay asked whether planning by PPC's could be ongoing i.e. each year plan for the year ahead with deanery funding.  (We have been told that the current level of  funding  will continue for three years, including this year, so PPC's could well be planning a little ahead;  the  deanery  pastoral council will review the budget each November.

Pray 2010.  Buses have been booked for a day trip to Friday 9 July sessions.   – one for the east of deanery (Hervey Bay, Maryborough, Gympie, and Childers?), with 44 bookings so far.  Murgon, Kingaroy and Nanango have one small bus going, with 10 bookings so far.  Gayndah will be taking car loads of people.  The $2000 funds per parish, may be distributed by each parish, as fairly as possible, to support people going to Pray 2010  (i.e. for registration, fuel/transport, and accommodation perhaps)

Future Meetings and workshops

JULY 24 Meeting (Gympie) :  Elizabeth Harrington was booked for this meeting. She has concerns about the amount of time, so the following is proposed:

Brief meeting begins at 9.30am;  10am cuppa;  10.30 – 12.30 workshop;  12.30 LUNCH      

Julie to contact Elizabeth about this. Proposed topic for the liturgy workshop:  Lay lead liturgies. (perhaps also ministry of communion to the sick). General guidelines regarding Lay Liturgies, and discussion of some of the issues surrounding this .

OCTOBER  30 (Maryborough)  – Peter Arndt has been booked to come and "break open" the Social Justice statement which will be released in September (this year it is about anger and violence)

Meeting finished at 12 noon, followed by LUNCH

RETREAT: Many members went to the home of Fran and Neil Hutton, of Wondai, for an afternoon retreat. , with afternoon tea and bbq tea.  Thank you so much to Fran for leading us through a lovely time of reflection and to Elaine Madill,  Murgon DPC rep, for organizing this.

 

 
Julie
 
 

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