SAINT JOHN VIANNEY CATHOLIC CHURCH

SAINT JOHN VIANNEY CATHOLIC CHURCH

MEN’S CLUB

            Joe Garcia, President          Steve Pedone, Vice President                Maurice Erly, Treasurer            Bill Scharpf, Secretary

                              410-586-1944                           410 -535-4079                                                           443-550-3119                                                           410=535-5053

                              paxplace@comcast.net     stevepedone@gmail.com                        erly@comcast.net                                                          sharpfwj@yahoo.com

MEETING HIGHLIGHTS

4 January 2010

1. Opening Prayer:

Bill Prochownick led us in an opening prayer.

2. Welcome new member:

The President welcomed everyone and a new member Jim Johnson was welcomed to the club.

2. Treasures Report:

The President and Treasure provided an end of the year report. To better identify and track the source and expenditure of funds, income and expenditures are identified in two categories: Monthly Meeting and Events/Functions. The meeting income is derived from donations towards the food and drink provided and the Functions income is derived from the events held by the club during any given year.

Meetings

Functions

2009

Income

$ 304.50 from donation

$ 409.00 from the 50/50

$ 3642.80

2009

Expenses

$ 259.89

$ 3129.61

The above numbers are provisional. There is a problem in accurately tracking expenses and income because the church and Men’s Club do not use the same fiscal year. The Church uses July through June and the Men’s Club uses the calendar year. There are questions of what happens to our funds in July. Do they get transferred to the next year or do they get zeroed out. This affects the totals for income and expenses. The President and Treasures will discuss the issue with the Church accounting office. We made $500.00 at the Seafood Dinner and spent $719.09 Even though we still owe the Church $ 273.00 for the seafood feast; we are still in black after expenses. A more detailed report will be provided at the next meeting.

3. Pastor’s Report:

Father Daly gave the Pastor’s report describing many ongoing activities and a few of the new projects he would like to pursue.

The church has donated $1000 to our sister church in Mexico and $800 for the roof for the chapel.
He is sorry to report that Jack Hill has entered Hospice. He was very active in the church.
A retired Priest, Father Peter Alliata will be moving into one of the cottages owned by the church. Farther Daly also hopes to build a duplex or other facility for other retiring priests. on the land recently purchased from ECHO.
Approximately 100 will attend the young people retreat. Father extended his thanks to Barbara Moran organizing the event.
On January 22 there will be the March for life in Washington DC. In support of that, there will be a Unity Night function here at the church.. The agenda includes talks by women describing their experience with their abortions. There will also be a showing of the movie Bella. There will be 2 buses that will leave the church early on Friday One will leave with our young people at 0630 and the other will leave with the adults at 7:00. There will be sign up sheet available in the Festival Room after the next two Sunday masses.

Father is proud to report that Safe Nights will become a stand alone organization. He offered special thanks to Joe and Mary Ann Zaversnik for taking responsibility for this project.
The religious store is breaking even and doing well.
Father announced that 4 parishioners from our parish will be traveling to Nicaragua to view their progress and report back to us on their needs. This trip will include a photo shoot for the catholic news service. The project, coordinated by Don Muller, is so successful that we are planning to build 10 more houses.
On 12 February, the Archbishop will be visiting us to discuss the future of Catholic schools within the Arch Diocese.

Awards:

Certificates of Appreciation were presented to:

Dickie Hayes for his work for the Crab Feast
Maury Mattingly for coordinating the 2009 Men’s Retreat
Chris Burton for his coordination role with Strove Tuesday
Jack Yatsko for organizing the evening cruses.
Jack McFadden for establishing the Men’s Club web site.
George Sullivan for his efforts with the Crab Feast.
Steve Pedone for his Coordination of the Seafood Dinner.

The Awards Coordinator, Jack Yatsko displayed our new Men’s Club jacket. It is green and all lettering will be embroided. Cost is 38 dollars. See Jack to order. Jack indicated that the jackets already ordered will be here within the next few days. The Awards Committee is also considering golf shirts and caps for this summer.

5. Old Business:

Project Echo: The organization is in transition into the new house. Several Men’s Club members helped with the move from the old building to the new. They do not plan to fully occupy the new building until the current staff gain experience with the new potential. Staff has not been increased.
Old Project Echo Building: Dickie Hayes plans to remove the aluminum siding from the old house and give the money to the church to help with the demolition costs. The demolition of the old house. This is delayed until warm weather arrives.
Remodeling the kitchen: We are currently waiting for bids from contractors. One concern is the remodeling may interfere with Strove Tuesday.
The Religious Store: The Men’s Club will install a sign as soon as the necessary permits are secured.

6. New Business

Kitchen Clean up: The next scheduled clean up of the Family Life center kitchen will be on January 13^th at 9:30AM.
Safe Nights: The next schedule Safe Nights will be during holy week, March 28^th to April 3^rd.

The Next Men’s Retreat will be on February 19 and 20. Father Croch will again lead the retreat. Please see Maury Mattingly for additional information. The retreat’s cost is $150. However, that should not be a barrier for anyone wishing to attend.
The Valentine Social is scheduled for 13^th of February. Bring a covered dish, The event starts 7:30.

Prayers for the sick and others: