Minutes From St Anne’s Christian Women’s Meeting – 12/10/2024
St. Anne’s Christian Women met Tuesday, December 10, 2024 in Mary Hall beginning with fellowship/dinner at 6:30 pm. All enjoyed the sloppy joes, salads, beans and chips. Members, so generously, brought delicious cookies to share. The meal was followed by President Karen DesAutels calling the business meeting to order at 7:10 pm with opening prayer and pledge of allegiance. Twenty-one members were present.
Minutes from the November 12th, 2024 meeting were read, motion to approve was made, motion seconded and passed; also read was the Treasurer’s report showing a balance of $ 6,594.07 in savings and $ 2,613.67 in checking for a total of $ 9,207.74. A motion was made to approve made to approve the Treasurer’s report, motion was seconded and passed.
OLD BUSINESS
November Breakfast – November 24th, 2024
Our fundraiser breakfast was very successful. We served 324 adults and 21 children, making $5,205.15. The last time SACW breakfast served this many people was 2015. A couple of suggestions were made regarding better signage/awareness of bake sale location and possibly moving the quilt raffle to turkey bingo night hosted by the Lions. Special thank you was mentioned to Julie Kraemer for running to get additional goods for the event.
Eucharist Revival – The Year of the Mission – Pillar #4 -Eucharistic Life
This item was tabled due to the evening’s packed schedule.
Sharing Tree
Reminder all gifts will need to be returned to the tree by Sunday, December 15th. A motion of a $200 cap was made, seconded and approved to help fund any remaining tags needing to be filled.
Bibles for St. Wendelin’s Students
SACW received a beautiful Thank You from the students for our donation towards their bibles.
West Central Deanery General Gathering
May 6th, 2025 will be the gathering date for this event. It will start with a 6:00 Mass at St. Mary Help of Christians followed by a light meal. There are four CW groups within our ACC parish cluster. Each group has been given a part to play in organizing this event. Our St. Anne’s CW group is responsible for desserts and seven centerpieces. We will revisit this agenda item at our April meeting.
SACW Outreach to People Inbound
Mary Neidermeier hosted those willing to help with this special project. We were happy to receive so many names and addresses of those that are inbound. Twenty-three Christmas cards were addressed. This event will happen during the Easter season.
NEW BUSINESS
Jubilee Year 2025 – Pilgrims of Hope
President Karen read from The Central Minnesota Catholic magazine the history of the Jubilee Year dating back to 1300 AD. She also read to the members the opening ritual in Rome and how the St. Cloud diocese has scheduled their Jubilee Year opening on Sunday, December 29, 2024, 6:00 pm (at the Cathedral, lower level).
Donations
The discussion of donations was tabled until a later date, with the exception of a motion being made, seconded and approved to donate $800 towards St. Wendelin’s School to help in covering transportation expenses for field trips.
Resurrection Party
At this time it is uncertain if there will be an Easter Vigil Mass at St. Wendelin’s. It was decided, a special meeting will be called to organize a reception, if one is needed.
Rocking Horse Farm Donation Request
Carol Wurst with Rocking Horse Farm requested a donation of hats, mittens, gloves, etc. for various area causes. SACW were able to pull from our Place of Hope donation to fulfill this need.
Officiant Gifts
Linda Kaiser showed to all, the fun gift holders she and Judy Walters created to hold the SACW gifts for them.
HALO
A halo will be sent to Sheila Albers for her continuing work, carrying on her mom, Alice’s legacy with the Parish Newsletter. We are so grateful to her for helping us all stay connected with this important piece of communication for the community. Thank you Sheila!
Meeting adjourned with closing prayer and drawing of prayer partners at 7:45 pm.
Then the Christmas party began!!! Virginia Meyer and Andy Tolman led SACW members into the planned Christmas festivities with special Christmas carols. Members participated in fun-filled games planned by Julie Kraemer and Bonnie Edelbrock. White elephant gifts were selected just before leaving, clean up was completed, and all had visions of a fun party as they slept that night!
Respectfully Submitted,
Cyntia Lommel, Secretary