PSR Commission Minutes August 14, 2016
PSR COMMITTEE MEETING
SUNDAY, AUGUST 14, 2016
Members present: Kathy Hammeke, Krysten Watkins, Jim Mitchell, Michelle Kelty, Kristy Mull,
Fr. Warren.
Jim opened the meeting with the committee prayer.
Basketball: Jim will contact Doug McNett to see if he would be willing to coach. It was suggested to bring up basketball at the Meet the Teacher night to see if any parents are interested, and have a sign up sheet.
Classrooms: Room assignments were finalized. K-5 will be in the parish education center and 6-12 in the annex. Sally Dreiling will work on switching desks and chairs around. Michelle will work on classroom door signs, as well as a sign for the annex door. Stacy, Pam, and Michelle will work on tidying up the rooms August 24th.
Meet the Teacher: It was suggested to have a large welcome sign/easel for Meet the Teacher night. The committee went over the agenda for Meet the Teacher Night. Catechists will make welcome notes/invitations for their students. There are many trinkets and holy cards that can be included. Stacy will remind the catechists to get their notes ready.
Root Beer Floats: Outreach Committee offered to have root beer floats for the first night of PSR class, August 31st. Grades K-8 will have the floats at 7:15 in the common area while highschool takes their floats back to the youth group room.
PSR Facebook Group: Stacy will create a Facebook PSR Group to help keep parents up to date and facilitate communication. Other/all committee members could be added as administrators to help manage the group.
Finance: Ben will work on the finance reports beginning with July 2106. Kathy Couchman will help Ben get started. The PSR committee will send an annual report to the Finance Committee.
Server Training: It was suggested that server training and retraining could be done during the 6-6:30 session over a period of several weeks. It is hard to convince parents that it takes more than just one hour long session for the kids to learn all the information. There is a lot to learn so perhaps several short sessions would also help students retain more information. There is an altar serving booklet that can be used, and perhaps we could find videos to help show the kids what the procedures are. There are many short (10 min or so) videos on YouTube. Father also suggest that we remind the highschool age kids that the younger kids really look up to the big kids, so they are welcome and encouraged to continue being altar servers. Michelle will pass this along to the youth group.
DRE: After PSR is up and running the committee will work on creating a job description for a DRE or a lesser “coordinator” position that will work in conjunction with the PSR committee. The committee feels that a DRE/CRE is necessary so we can have someone with regular office hours to be the diocesan contact, do the day to day tasks, be present and available during PSR while the catechists are busy in class, etc.
Next meeting: Meet the Teacher night, Wednesday, August 24th, 6:00 p.m.
