March 2015

Present:  Lee McGrath, John Mitchell, John Larmour, Becky Estep

• The meeting was called to order by Lee McGrath and started precisely at 7:00 PM with the Prayer for the New Evangelization.
• Some members shared their personal evangelization stories.
• Lee led the discussion: Many Faces in God’s House – how can we participate? 

The following are highlights of the discussion:
+ After Mass Talks – Lee asked that we pray for fellow committee member, Sue Sopola, as she will be giving her talk this weekend.
+ April 9^th  at 7pm in the gym- large group Many Faces opportunity
+ Lee will contact Cara Johnson to get the Evangelization Committee on                  the invitation list.
+ Lee recommended that we watch the movie McFarland.  She stated that it was a powerful movie.

• Lee led the committee in discussion in regard to offering the Catholics Returning Home program at MQHR.  She asked if a recommendation can be made to Fr. Dan in support of this and if so, what are our next steps and if we choose not to make a recommendation then what are our next steps.

The following are highlights of the discussion:
+ The majority of members want to move forward with presenting Fr. Dan with a proposal. 
+ Lee asked that committee members email her their thoughts.
+ Lee suggested that 3 people serve on the sub-committee to work on the proposal that she will present to Fr. Dan.  She volunteered as did John Larmour and Becky Estep.
+ Lee will contact Deacon Tim Weinmann to get his recommendation(s) in regard to what should be included in the proposal. 
+ Lee gave us the book Returning Home to Your Catholic Faith by Sally L. Mews.

• After John Mitchell gave an overview of the make-up of the Parish Pastoral Council, Lee McGrath was asked to be the Evangelization Committee representative on the Council.  She agreed to do so.  John Mitchell made the motion, Becky Estep seconded the motion and the vote was unanimously in favor of Lee being our representative on the Parish Pastoral Council.
• New Business: 
• Sub-committee will be charged with collecting information and data from all members of committee for proposal. 

+ It was recommended that we ask a college student to serve on the Evangelization Committee as well as to expand the committee to represent the Many Faces of MQHR.  We were asked to pray for guidance for who we should identify to serve on this committee.

• Next meeting is April 16, 2015.
• There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned at 8:20 PM with Petitions and the Closing Prayer.