1st. Parish Coordinating Council (PCC) Meeting for 2008

The 1st. Parish Coordinating Council (PCC) meeting for the year 2008 was held on Thursday 3.1.08 to lay the ground work for continued pastoral work of the Parish with both BECs and Parish Groups encouraged to work together in all areas of concern organised on a quarterly basis under the W.I.S.E Commission set -up of SFX Church, i.e Worship, Sectoral, Integral and Evangelisation. Hence the 2008 Parish Calendar which carried the Archdiocesan Theme: Deepening Our Discipleship and the monthly PMPT Theme was distributed to assist all the Chief Co-ordinators in their planning and implementation both at the Parish and BEC levels.

The meeting, chaired by Ms Janet Chin, CC of the Liturgy Ministry with Rev. Fr. Simon Yong SJ Parish Priest presiding, started with worship, followed by the newly elected chief coordinators being formally welcomed.

Rev. Fr. Simon Yong, Parish Priest in his closing address for the meeting emphasised the need to pray together rather than just assuming that by working together we were a family of God. He therefore stressed the need to be early and be punctual for the PCC Meeting held on the 1st. Thursday of every month as the meeting always started with praise and worship.

Members present were also surprised by the Lifeline team who invited all present to celebrate the birthdays of the Parish leaders in the month of January 08. Linda Archibald and her Lifeline members brought forward a chocolate birthday cake and invited all whose birthday was in the month of January 2008 to come forward for a special blessing from our Dear Padre and all present. The birthday celebrants were, (L to R in the first photo below) Hans Tan, Janet Pereira, Lawrence Loh, Jacquita Gonzales and Clive Yap. After the singing of the 'Happy Birthday' and 'May God Bless You' songs, the cake was cut and distributed to all present.

Although a simple celebration it was a beautiful and meaningful new year gesture of love and care for one another in the PCC.