Board Meeting 03/07/2009

MINUTES

Board members present: Cristina Delgado, Nancy Barger, Irma Margo, Ferdi Pura, Tom Orlando, and James Garcia

I. Regular Tuesday YAM meetings:

During the board meeting it has been decided that the topic or themes to do in Tuesday meetings are the following:

- Morality (e.g. contraception, stem cells, assisted suicide, abortion, and etc.)

- Theology of the body – web links to books and articles related to this theme will be posted in the lukefive.org web site under Yam Meetings.

- Apologetics – This theme is about charitably defending the faith

- Mass explains – In this theme a presenter will choose one practice in church during mass such as the Eucharist, baptism, readings and etc. and why we do it as Catholics and what is it mean to you.

There will a sign-up sheet on Tuesday meetings for each topics and themes. If any members have questions or concerns fill free to email stlukesyam@catholic.org, make sure the subject of your email is “Tuesday Topics and Themes.”

II. Group meeting room:

The board is also considering getting a new room for Tuesday meetings as the YAM members grow and coordinate with other church groups with other counties and cities. A plan is at work to figure out which room can be use in Saint Luke’s during Tuesday night.

III. Membership Drive:

There will be a YAM membership drive on either the week of Easter or Mid April 2009.

IV. Service events:

We are hoping we can have Nancy Bonnet, a pro-life advocate to talk to the group. It has also been proposed that YAM will hold a “Soup Supper” on March 27th or April 3rd. There will be more announcements about Nancy Bonnet and “Soup Supper” on the lukefive.org under upcoming events.

V. Social Events:

We are planning to have an event we call “Circle of Friends” on May 2009, a social networking event with the purpose of getting to know other young adults from other organizations. Stay tuned about this event as the timeframe nears.

VI. Fundraiser:

The fundraiser will be held on April 25th and 26th. We will sell beef jerkies and snow cones. If you want to help let us know on one of the Tuesday meetings.