Thunder Bay Deanery Youth Unit

DYU Meeting

Monday Jan 14^th 2008

In attendence:

Brianna

Sadie “You All Know Me”

Jen

Leanne

Sarah

Sheena

John

Cora

Maranda

Danielle

Agenda:

(1) Formal structure of the DYU

(2) Retreat with SSM

(3) Ramesh

(4) Carnival?

(5) Church Hopping

(6) Youth Synod

* Moving around to accommodate those missing

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(4) Carnival

Feb 22-23

West Thunder Bay is holding a carnival for their big Ramesh fundraiser; Ramesh will be their “Ring Master”

We are keen to either show up or help in some sort or capacity.

This is going to be a wild amount of fun and we are all encouraged to SHOW UP AND HAVE A HOOT!

(3) Ramesh

He’s a delight.

General consensus is that the parishes are not talking about the campaign. Not the greatest information to hear, but this is going to “fuel our fire”

We need to get across that this is not a youth driven activity and that this is an ALL AGES campaign! Just because we are pushing it doesn’t mean that it’s only us that need to be taking part.

Awareness is just as important as the cash.

We need support if we are going to pull off anymore fundraisers.

TWO POSSIBLE IDEAS FOR FUNDRAISING:

1.      Dinner/Dance

2.      Bike Rally

Quick Discussion on thought on both:

Dinner Dance:

·        SSM puts on a dinner/dance, however they don’t make a lot of cash. There is a ton of work that everyone needs to pull through with. A committee needs to be put together and dedication needs to be obvious with the DYU.

·        Dinner idea is dropped, decided to have desserts and refreshments instead.

·        Committee:

            John, Maranda, Leanne ect. EVERYONE

Will meet at a separate time.

(1) Executive

** General Idea**

Chair Noms: Sarah, Danielle

Vice Noms:  Cora, Jake

Election cancelled, going to share the positions.

Exec members:

CHAIR: Sarah, Danielle

VICE CHAIR: Cora, Jake

SECRETARY: Maranda

COMMUNICATIONS: John, perhaps Vicki -- double check with her, as she is not here.

Discussion:

Good Idea

Communications: maybe two people; update the old page and the facebook  page so that EVERYONE has access and those on facebook

Next step: looking to go through with elections/committee building

Retreat

(roughly: May Long) 

·        Where?

·        Theme?

·        SSM coming?

Meeting, for those taking a serious look at it.
Matty will chair the committee for the retreat; meeting will commence at a different time.

Church Hopping:

St. John’s

St. Paul’s

            Have not been done in a long time.

Seems that we’re interested in doing it, just not the first Sunday of every month.

Closing:

Lord’s prayer