Parish Staff

Pastoral Council

Members serve in an advisory role to the parish priest. They plan for the future of the parish, review parish policies, promote faith formation and parish activities, coordinate parish groups, and accept and consider comments and suggestions from parishioners.

Charlotte Snekvik - Chair 509-595-3048
Alejandrina Amado
Rob Cassleman
Lorraine Farrand
Aurora Horstkamp
Jim Lincoln
Kevin Owens
Eric Patera - Vice Chair
Mary Schweitzer
Charlotte Worthy

Minutes: Sacred Heart Pastoral Council - January 12, 2020

Members present: Fr. Steve Dublinski, Lorraine Farrand, Aurora Horstkamp, Jim Lincoln, Kevin Owens, Eric Patera (Acting Chair), and Mary Schweitzer. Char Snekvik (Chair) by speaker phone from home, Rob Cassleman by phone from Switzerland the last part of the meeting.
Also present: Mary Sutherland, Parish Secretary.
The meeting opened with the Lord’s Prayer.
Commission Reports: The Finance and Administration Commission was supposed to report in January. The mid-year financial report isn’t ready yet. The commission report schedule for the rest of the year is February: Finance & Administration plus Liturgy & Worship, March: Faith Formation, April: Community & Outreach, and May: Finance & Administration.
Staff & Volunteers update: Faith Formation secretary Sue McNamara is retiring in the spring. There is a search underway for her replacement. And, Lucille Guettinger is retiring from 20 years of taking care of the church flowers and gardens. Fr. Steve and the staff presented Lucille with a hand blown glass rose at the staff Christmas party. We are looking for someone to take over that important volunteer area also.
Coffee & doughnuts: Pastoral Council hosts January 26. Mary will send out an email for sign-ups.
Fr. Steve Spanish class: A Spanish professor at WSU has offered to let Fr. Steve attend her class. He will look into it.
Building committee update:
            Land off Wawawai Road: The owner offered us eight acres for $550,000. We countered with $450,000 cash plus the owner would gift us $100,000 to get a tax write-off, if the land was assessed at $550,000 or more. The owner countered back asking for $510,000 cash with a $40,000 write-off for not quite eight acres. A week later the owner said that the maximum he can allow for a tax write off for the year is $38,000. We can’t pay that much in cash, and would also need to put in at least $100,000 to help build the road. The building committee and finance council are meeting Tuesday, January 14, to look at all the options and discuss countering the counter offer.
            New land possibility: Fr. Steve and Kevin Owens met with the family that is offering us land within the city limits, south of the Moscow Pullman highway (WA-270), about a mile from downtown Pullman. The mother of the family of seven adults is a parishioner. They own 380 acres and only one sibling is still farming. They want to develop a community on the property as a tribute to their mother. The plans they’ve been working on for 15 years take into account the needs of Pullman, and include a church, low-income retirement housing, sports fields, retail, etc. The family is offering 10 to 15 acres, but is open to including Catholic Charities low income housing, and is willing to give up to 35 acres.
            The catch is that in order to develop the property a road/bridge must be built over Paradise Creek and the Chipman Trail. It will cost about $1.2 million. The family is asking for $50,000 per acre to help build the bridge. They cannot afford it alone. Eight acres would cost the church $400,000.
            Scott Cooper of Catholic Charities talked with Fr. Steve and Kevin. They are interested in building low-income housing in Pullman since their last project in Whitman County was Pioneer Square in 1978. Catholic Charities recently received a large gift enabling them to build housing. They will do a study for the area looking at the need for low income and retirement housing.
            Electric lines go along the Chipman Trail to the property. Gas lines reach that far on the other side of the highway. There is no water supply at this point. The city has long term plans to put in a water tower. In the meantime a well would have to be drilled through the basalt that is under five feet of topsoil. The road over the bridge may eventually be developed into a south by-pass of Pullman. The land is not in the 100 year flood plain. Turning left from the property to go back into Pullman could be difficult at times.
            Feasibility study: In December Fr. Steve signed a contract with Castellaw Kom Architects (CKA) of Lewiston for $18,000. They are looking at costs and timelines for remodeling or rebuilding the church on site, and at the cost and timeline of building new on the Wawawai land. The new land offer will be added to the contract, which will increase the cost and timeline. The initial estimate for finishing the feasibility study was mid-February. After the study is finished and we have estimated costs at the different locations there will be a presentation for the entire parish so everyone can see the results. According to the building survey, parishioners want a quality plan that is financially realistic.
The meeting closed with a prayer.
Next meeting: Sunday, February 9, 9:45 am.
Submitted by Mary Sutherland.

January 12, 2020 council minutes
December 8, 2019 council minutes
Community Outreach Commisstion report to council 12/8/19
November 3, 2019 council minutes
Faith Formation Board Report to Pastoral Council 11/3/19
October 13, 2019 council minutes
September 8, 2019 council minutes
June 2, 2019 council minutes
May 5, 2019 council minutes
April 7, 2019 council minutes
March 10, 2019 council minutes
Community Outreach Commission Report to Council 3/10/19
February 10, 2019 council minutes
January 13, 2019 council minutes
Faith Formation Board Report to Pastoral Council 1/13/19
December 9, 2018 council minutes
November 11, 2018 council minutes
October 14, 2018 council minutes
September 9, 2018 council minutes
June 3, 2018 council minutes
May 6, 2018 council minutes
April 15, 2018 council minutes
March 18, 2018 council minutes
February 25, 2018 council minutes
February 2018 council minutes - February 11
January 2018 council minutes
December 2017 council minutes
November 2017 council minutes
October 2017 council minutes
September 2017 council minutes
May 2017 council minutes

Faith Formation Board

Parish Faith Formation serves preschool through adults. Board members provide oversight and support to the Faith Formation staff for curriculum, hiring, adult education topics, and the parish library. Individuals will be chosen to form a diverse group representing all parish members.

Penny Zimmerman - President, 509-330-0736 
Tammy Barry 
Linda Heidenreich 
Jane Hommel 
Dan Jinguji 
Mary Johnson 
Wendy McCann 
Jon Parrish 
Dave Schneider

Faith Formation Board Meeting
January 7, 2020
 
Present: Tammy Barry, Linda Heidenreich (refreshments), Jane Hommel, Dan Jinguji, Linea Johnson (closing prayer), Mary Johnson, Sue McNamara (opening prayer for Wendy), Jon Parrish, Theresa Paul, Penny Zimmerman led meeting.
 
Youth Report: Linea – going well so far in 2020!  ;-) 
The Epiphany Party on January 5 was a lot of fun! They had pizza, a gift exchange, and scavenger hunt. 
Parent Meeting on January 12 after the 11 am Mass and at 5:30 pm to discuss whether to go to Yakima or Oakland, CA (dates confirmed).  Rough head count makes it 12-15 kids and they need a 1-5 adult to teen ratio, so they would need a third adult and car.  They would leave Saturday, July 4, be in Oakland July 6-10, and come back July 11. 
Looking forward to: Teen Mass Feb. 9, CYC March 6-8, and Steubenville July 25-26.
VBS is July 27-31. 
Adoration:  All positive feedback, will try to have it once a quarter. 
 
RE Report: Theresa 
First Reconciliation:  Most of the kids went to Fr. Steve, so that gave the families a chance to go to confession with Fr. Jeff.  Need to edit the ‘how-to’ card because the part about ‘when was your last confession’ confused the first-timers. 
Epiphany Party: We had great help from Youth Group teens, but it was a challenge since some of the preschool and kindergarten kids were a little intimidated by the ‘big’ kids. They had three stations during 8:30 hour, and five at 9:45. At the next one, “Journey to Jerusalem”, there will be four at the most.
Theresa explained that she has information on a Catholic Youth Camp at the Shoshone part of Camp Lutherhaven in northern Idaho. Linea will promote it to middle-schoolers since they have not had many events this year.
Fr. Steve’s Homilies: They will now be archived on the YouTube channel since people have been asking for that.
Christmas Eve Children’s Mass Skit was very sweet and well-done! Thanks especially to Jill Patera and Dan Jinguji!! It was video-recorded and will be shared with the parents thru a private YouTube channel. 
Post-Baptism Support – Fr. Steve wants it to be in Spanish as well. Board members gave names of several people who might be implementers for this. 
Family Sacrament Class:  will now focus on Confirmation and First Communion. 
Rosary:  First graders and others will make rosaries. Then Kurt Zimmerman will help lead the rosary up in Church on February 2.  
Candlemas and Blessing of the Throats:  At the end of class, Preschool and Kindergarten kids will be brought up to have their throats blessed with their parents. Fr. Steve will come down after Mass to bless the throats of children and catechists in the classrooms.
Disciples in Dialogue:  In the social hall on January 23, 30, and February 6 from 6:30 to 7:45 pm. Topic is The Book of Revelation.
 
Mary Johnson:  Would like to lead a study of the book, Women of the Bible, which includes every woman who said anything in the Bible. After Easter we will plan for a couple of these.
 
Coffee and Donuts February 16, sign-up via email and Sue will send out typed list in order to fill in the blanks. A long-time parishioner who came down for the first time said, “This is a wonderful community down here!”
 
Fund-Raising Ideas:  Linea asked for money raising ideas for the Mission Trip.  Mentioned Krispy Kremes, World’s Finest Chocolate, and car wash.  Will need to raise about $10,000 this year.
 
Bible Study – Tammy – Starting again January 26, will finish (in four weeks) Volume 1 of Pivotal Players by Lent.  Then will switch to the Lenten Bible study for 3 weeks. 
 
Summer Programs:  Need to start working on these NOW.  Sue will put on the agenda.
 
Next Meeting is February 4  at 7 pm in the St. Charles room.
Opening Prayer: Jon  Closing Prayer: Tammy   Refreshments: Dan

January 7, 2020 faith formation board minutes
December 3, 2019 faith formation board minutes
November 5, 2019 faith formation board minutes
October 1, 2019 faith formation board minutes
September 3, 2019 faith formation board minutes
June 4, 2019 faith formation board minutes
May 7, 2019 faith formation board minutes
April 2, 2019 faith formation board minutes
March 5, 2019 faith formation board minutes
January 8, 2019 faith formation board minutes
December 4, 2018 faith formation board minutes
November 6, 2018 faith formation board minutes
October 2, 2018 faith formation board minutes
September 4, 2018 faith formation board minutes
June 2018 faith formation board minutes
May 2018 faith formation board minutes
April 2018 faith formation board minutes
March 2018 faith formation board minutes
February 2018 faith formation board minutes
January 2018 faith formation board minutes
December 2017 faith formation board minutes
November 2017 faith formation board minutes
October 2017 faith formation board minutes
September 2017 faith formation board minutes
June 2017 faith formation board minutes

Members research charities and decide which ones will receive money from the parish. In 1990 Sacred Heart's Pastoral Council decided the parish would spend a percent of its income on charity, gradually working up to 10%. It established the Caritas committee to disburse the funds. The percentage has varied over the years. 

Mary Johnson, chair
Ken Casavant
Michelle Chapman
Jessica Ortiz
Tim Paulitz
Robin Saam

Finance Council

This council is appointed by the pastor, and is responsible for ensuring the financial stability of the parish.

Erik Coats - President, 509-334-7772
Dennis Guettinger
Bernie McEldowney
Miho Nam
Rev. Jeff Core, diocesan representative