St. Ann PCCW October 30,2016

Flock TalkFuneral Dinners

At St. Ann Parish Sue Carlton hasbeen organizing and helping withFuneral Dinners for 20 years.Active in PCCW, Sue organizedvolunteer women into seven“Funeral Groups”. Each group hasten women of which two areleaders.When Sue is notified that there

has been a deathat St. Ann, shecalls one of theleaders of agroup to see ifthey are availableto organize andprovide a funeraldinner. Theleaders areresponsible for

calling the rest of the members ofthe group to bring a salad, vegetableor desert to the cafeteria at the

appropriate time.The leaders provide the meat

and potatoes, paid for by theParish. They also set the tables,provide drinks, serve the meal andclean up. Members of the groupoften help serve as well.If a funeral is large, two funeral

groups work together to provideenough food. Food can be taken toa home if the family chooses not togather in the cafeteria for dinner.Helping to provide food for a

Funeral Dinner builds community inour Parish. All women can help.Working women can drop off theirfood before work or arrange for itto be delivered. Because of peoplemoving away, more volunteers areneeded. Please consider helpingwith this important mission in ourParish. Call Sue at 417-388-9126to volunteer.

Important training forall Lectors,

Extraordinary Ministersof Holy Communionand Altar Servers

There will be training for allLectors, ExtraordinaryMinisters of Holy Communionand Altar Servers onSaturday, November 19.Procedural changes for eachministry will be reviewed andnew handbooks will be gienout. This training is for allcurrent Lectors, ExtraordinaryMinisters of Holy Communionand Altar Servers as well aseveryone who is interested inserving St. Ann's Parish inthese positions. Trianing onNovember 19 will be at 9:00am for Lectors, 10:00 am forExtraordinary Ministers ofHoly Communion and 11:00am for Altar Servers. Therewill be pizza for the AltarServers after their training.Altor Servers who recentlyreceived training through St.Ann's School are stronglyencouraged to attend thistraining also.

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