Meeting Monday April 28th

Just a reminder for our next meeting is Monday, April 28th at 7:00 pm. The parish nurses will be at the beginning of the meeting to distribute a survey and to inform our group of their services. We will close our meeting with Nicole Unice’s next topic of Comparisons and break into small groups for discussion. Come find out how quitting comparisons starts with a healthy humility and a grateful heart.

We have some fun events planned down the road, so please attend our meeting to hear all about them.  See you Monday.

Family & Mom's Events

Upcoming Family and Moms' Night Out Events

We have decided to alternate our family events and our moms’ nights monthly. Going forward, our Moms’ Nights Out will happen on the second Thursday of every other month beginning in June. We are hoping this will help everyone with planning for these fun nights. The upcoming events are listed below. 

Family Picnic on Sunday, May 18th from 4-6

Moms’ Night Out at Wine Loft on Thursday, June 12th at 7pm
Family Social on Sunday, July 20th after 9 am mass at Dixie Donut

Family Picnic on Sunday, May 18 from 4-6     

We’re so excited for our second annual family picnic! We’ll meet Sunday, May 18th from 4-6 at the Colonies Clubhouse. This is the same location as last year’s picnic, however this year it will be potluck. Please sign up to bring a dish to share and plan to bring the drinks for your family. Please also plan to bring a small donation to help our group cover the rental of the clubhouse. We look forward to seeing everyone and sharing a meal with the families.  Hope your family can make it!

Please RSVP on NList for the events.  Thank you to Betsy Ingoe for organizing lots of fun activities.  Hope to see you there!

We Are Beautiful

During our meeting in March we discussed Insecurity that women are faced with.  Check out this great video from Dove.  In it, an FBI sketch artist asked individual women participating in a study to either describe themselves or a stranger seated next to them earlier in the day.

The results showed very different images— the self-descriptions would reveal the women's insecurities. The clip juxtaposed the two descriptions to highlight the distorted-- inaccurate and less attractive -- verbal pictures women painted of themselves.

Remember you are BEAUTIFUL just the way God intended you to be!

March Meeting Recap

St Anne Meeting

Monday March 31, 2014

Opening Blessing  and Prayer Intentions –Tricia Blair

Welcome  - Introduction of new individuals

New Core Committee:

·         President:  Trish McNeel – oversees the Core Committee, runs the meetings, invitations to parents of newly baptized, main contact with the parish

·         Vice President: Kathy Boughton – schedules speakers for monthly meetings and spiritual activities

·         Secretary/Treasurer:  Kelly McGuire – creates the agenda to be sent out to members each month, creates a yearly budget for the group to present to the parish, manages expense reimbursements

·         Church Affairs:  Kelly McGuire and Kathy Boughton – attends human concerns meetings and keeps group informed of events and activities taking place within the parish; works with Marriage and Family Ministry in Parish

·         Publicity:  Kirsten Schaefer – updates blog, creates flyers for bulletin if needed, Newcomers Meetings

·         Chaplain:  Tricia Blair – prepares prayers for monthly meetings and keeps the group updated on any prayers requests

·         Social:  Betsy Ingoe – plans social outings and family events for ministry.  

·         Community Service:  Sara Sitkiewicz – REAP and plans any service activities the group can do outside of the parish (ex: St. Mary’s Woods)

·         Playgroup:  Suzanne Heller – organizes playgroups

·         Meal Coordinator:  Amber Stanwix - organizes meals for families in our group

Upcoming Events:

·         Playgroup – Friday, April 5^th  at 10:30 – Short Pump Park

·         Easter Egg Hunt and Brunch – Saturday, April 19^th at 11AM – Nuckols Farm Elementary followed by brunch at Kathy Boughton’s House – bring a brunch item to share and 12 filled Easter eggs per kid

·         Family Picnic – Sunday, May 18^th from 4 – 6 at The Colonies Clubhouse – bring a potluck item to share and your own drinks 

·         Mom’s Night Out – Thursday, June 12^th at 7PM – Wine Loft

·         Rummage Sale – June 14-15 – Human Concerns Committee looking for volunteers

·         CARITAS – June 21 – 28 – Families this year and we plan to take a night and provide dinner

·         VBS – July 7 – 11

·         July Family Event at Dixie Donuts  - Sunday, July 20^th after 9AM mass

·         Parish Picnic – Saturday, October 4^th – asked us to do the bake-off

·          CHRP (Christ Renews His Parish) - October 18-19, 2014

http://saint-mikes.org/faith_formation.php?pid=53   

What exactly is Christ Renews His Parish ?  

Christ Renews His Parish, also known as CRHP, is simply a retreat, put on by parishioners (men for men and women for women) who together come to better understand the extraordinary grace of our Lord.

CRHP is a parish renewal process that has existed since 1969 and has been used as the primary instrument of personal and parish renewal in over 1,000 parishes nationwide. Over the last 40 years, thousands of women and men have participated in a Christ Renews His Parish renewal weekends at their parish.

Reminders:

·         Please sign up to bring snacks for meetings on nList

·         We will have no May meeting because of Memorial Day

·         Please RSVP for Easter Brunch and Family Picnic on nList