October
30, 2005
On
your mark, get set....
Data
Volunteers
In a little over a week, we’ll have thousands of Census forms
to enter into our parish data base. If you have good computer and typing
skills and can spare some time in the days or evenings in the weeks
ahead to help enter the Census information, we’d like to hear
from you. Robert Cammarata is coordinating the Census project. Give
him a call at 334-0021 ext 136 or e-mail him at robc@saintbrigid.net
and he’ll schedule you for training and entry time one one of
the five computers we have set for this purpose. Come join with your
fellow parishioner-volunteers ..
Got
Lamp?
If you have a standing lamp in working condition that you are no longer
using and would like to donate it to St. Brigid’s, we’re
happy to accept it to use for different parish events. Just bring it
to the Religious Education Office in the school on Maple Ave during
office hours. Thanks.
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Past Columns:
Oct 23: This Time For Real
Oct 9: Parishioners Don't
Read This
Oct 2: What would Jesus Sign?
Sept 25: New Pastor
Sept 18: Welcome Gonzalo
Sept 11: New Beginnings
Sept 4: Spreading the Faith
August 28:World Youth Day
Words
August 21: Dressing Up
August 14: Harsh
Words
August 7: Tiny Whispering
Sound
July 31: Welcoming Rob
July 24:Wedding Bells
July 17: Summer Weeding
July 10: Ministry to Seniors
July 3: The Painters are
Coming!
June 26: The Last 25%
June19: Sommer in the
Summer
June 12: Great News Anoying
News
June 5: What's Essential
May 29: Setting Priorities
May 22: Painting Project
May 15: We are the Church
May 8:Mother of the Church
May 1: On Life and Death
April 24: Habemus Papam
April 17: The Spirit Abounds
April 10: Two men on a journey
April 3: He's baaack!
March 27th: Not the best
news...yet
March 20th: What are You
Doing For Easter?
March 13th: The Stench
March 6: To Tell or Not
To Tell
February 27: Dry Mouth Dry
Soul
February 20: Good to Be
Here
February 13: And he was
hungry?
Ash Wednesday '05
February 6: Ashes Already?
January 23: Catholic Schools
Week
January 16: Continued Charity
January 9: Migration
January 2:All is bright?
Columns from 2004
Columns from 2003
Columns from 2002
Next
weekend we begin our Census. You might be wondering how we’ll do
this. In today’s society it’s no longer possible to go door
to door to ask if anyone at home is Catholic, so we’ll be doing
the Census as people come to us.
Phase One will be at the masses
next Sunday. During mass we’ll take a few minutes and ask one person
from each family to fill in the Census booklet right there. (If anyone
needs assistance in filling in their Census, there will be someone available
after mass.) By the end of the weekend, we’ll have recorded over
a thousand families. Census booklets will bed available in English, Spanish,
Italian and Kreyol. Over the following two weeks, there will be tables
at the entrances to the church and school so people who are away next
weekend will have a chance to do their census.
Phase Two involves reaching out
to those parishioners we already know are in our programs -- school, religious
education, outreach, etc. If they didn’t get a chance to do the
Census in the first few weeks, we’ll ask them to do it through the
program they’re enrolled in. The same goes for folks involved in
parish ministries and societies.
Phase Three involves mailing the
Census booklet to all those we have not heard from in the first two phases.
And the final phase is ongoing --offering people a chance to do the census
when they come to us for some event or service -- booking a wedding, getting
a mass card, etc.
Once we get started, if you know of any parishioner who hasn’t been
included in our Census (perhaps a homebound neighbor), feel free to bring
that person a Census booklet and then you can return that booklet to the
office. Remember, the reason for our census is to get an accurate “snapshot”
of ALL our parish family. Please pray for the success of this project.
