Our communications team, Marie Ethen and Patrick Frazier, are looking at doing some improvements on the bulletin, both in format, design, and reduction of errors. We have a lot of information passing through our office and it has been difficult to review it all in time for publication. The date for submissions has been pushed back a day, and we request everything from the public to be submitted no later than midday on Tuesday.

The Pastorate Leadership Team (PLT), made up of Bonnie Moschkau, Marie Ethen, and Amber Cerrato, are working with Father Drew to come up with a new Rallying Cry to answer the question, what is the most important thing we can accomplish in the next four to six months. 

We discussed the direction of the liturgy with the Guiding Coalition this past week. We used our three strategic anchors, Community of Nations, Accessible to the Poor, and One Stage in the Journey to evaluate a proposal that our liturgical celebrations seek to stay in the center, neither progressive nor traditionalist. We have people from many different countries, and many visitors so we don't want a liturgy that causes unnecessary discomfort. This is currently being discussed and more clarity will be provided as we make decisions. There are no changes to the liturgy being planned at this time, but we're trying to help clarify expectations for the future.

We have shifted Young Adult Ministry from being part of the official programming of the parish to a "lay apostolate" meaning that we will be supporting non-staff lay members of our community who feel called to ministry to young adults. We will support those leaders with training, accompaniment, and use of our facilities. We will not be providing promotion or covering costs going forward. Myra Kraemer is one young adult who feels inspired to lead this effort, [email protected].

The Education Commission met and decided on a couple other people to be included going forward, but we desire to keep the team at 12 members or less to facilitate better discussion. We will be reviewing the Six Questions of the Pastorate to form Six Clarifying Questions for the school.