One of our own, Tim Miller, has been featured in the current issue of Venue Magazine in article entitled “Bringing Hope By Giving Back”.  

Here is an excerpt from the article.

“It is important for me to give back to the community.  I’ve been fortunate enough to work with such wonderful people for 28 years and have been blessed in so many ways that I want to share that,” explains Tim.

He has been married to his wife, Vickie, for twenty-four years and is the father of two teenage children, Jeff and Ali.  He is a member of the Father’s  Team, which is a group based from his parish, Immaculate Heart of Mary, located in Anderson Township.  The group meets every Friday morning at 6:03 a.m. from September to May to share and discuss the issues and difficulties of raising children and being better husbands.  Tim’s dedication to all aspects of his life should be greatly admired and respected.

 

The magazine is available at Joseph Beth Bookstores.

Leadership Discernment

Congratulations to Ken Cornish and John Fahrmeier as the new large group leads for next year!

This week we will discern small group leaders. The small group leaders are the backbone of the group.  Prayerfully consider the calling.

B.Y.O.B. Friday

This Friday is a first Friday Rosary. Bring Your Own Beads at 5:30AM and join us in prayer.

2010-2011 Survey

If you haven’t done so already, please take a few minutes to answer a few questions to help make this a better ministry:

http://www.esurveyspro.com/Survey.aspx?id=630a6dca-540c-404f-af3d-59a0adf21990

Volunteer Opportunities

• Mobile Food Pantry—Service project for the Fall
• Fatherhood Celebration—June 19th

Upcoming Calendar

http://www.fathersteam.org/calendar/

• First Friday Rosary
  Friday, June 03, 2011 @ 5:30 AM at Hageman Hall
• Discernment: Small Group Leads
  Friday, June 03, 2011 @ 6:03 AM at Hageman Hall
• FATHERS Team Lite
  Friday, June 10, 2011 @ 6:03 AM at Hageman Hall
  
  Review upcoming Sunday’s readings
• FATHERS Team Lite
  Friday, June 17, 2011 @ 6:03 AM at Hageman Hall
  
  Review upcoming Sunday’s readings
• FATHERS Team Lite
  Friday, June 24, 2011 @ 6:03 AM at Hageman Hall
  
  Review upcoming Sunday’s readings

Leadership Discernment

This week we will discern large group leaders.  This is in important event for all of us to participate in.

2010-2011 Survey

If you haven’t done so already, please take a few minutes to answer a few questions to help make this a better ministry:

http://www.esurveyspro.com/Survey.aspx?id=630a6dca-540c-404f-af3d-59a0adf21990

Volunteer Opportunities

• Mobile Food Pantry—Service project for the Fall
• Fatherhood Celebration—June 19th

Meeting Materials

• 100 Conversation Starters for Family Discussions
• Bless Our Family

Upcoming Calendar

http://www.fathersteam.org/calendar/

• Discernment: Large Group Leads
  Friday, May 27, 2011 @ 6:03 AM at Hageman Hall
• First Friday Rosary
  Friday, June 03, 2011 @ 5:30 AM at Hageman Hall
• Discernment: Small Group Leads
  Friday, June 03, 2011 @ 6:03 AM at Hageman Hall
• FATHERS Team Lite
  Friday, June 10, 2011 @ 6:03 AM at Hageman Hall
  
  Review upcoming Sunday’s readings
• FATHERS Team Lite
  Friday, June 17, 2011 @ 6:03 AM at Hageman Hall
  
  Review upcoming Sunday’s readings
• FATHERS Team Lite
  Friday, June 24, 2011 @ 6:03 AM at Hageman Hall
  
  Review upcoming Sunday’s readings

Raising Children in a Digital Age

Be careful this Friday, as Team 1 may try to “Friend” us with this topic:

iPhone, iPod, iPad, …..iParent, in a networked world. It is critical that fathers stay involved in the technology of the day to understand what your child is experiencing in an environment of “uber” communication.

Leadership Discernment

Prayerfully consider being a leader next year on FATHERS Team.  It has a tax-free salary and a great benefits plan.  Discernment begins on May 27.

Volunteer Opportunities

• IHM Batahola Garage Sale: Looking for volunteers for the weekend before drop off and the garage sale weekend.

Upcoming Calendar

http://www.fathersteam.org/calendar/

• Raising Children in a Digital Age
  Friday, May 13, 2011 @ 6:03 AM at Hageman Hall
  
  iPhone, iPod, iPad, …..iParent, in a networked world. It is critical that fathers stay involved in the technology of the day to understand what your child is experiencing in an environment of “uber” communication. Presented by Team 1
• Making Dinner Table Conversations Count
  Friday, May 20, 2011 @ 6:03 AM at Hageman Hall
  
  Dads, do you make good use of dinner table time to communicate with your children? Do you even make time for dinner as a family? How can you take an ordinary meal and turn it into a time to listen to your children and reach them on a new level? Presented by Team 5
• Discernment: Large Group Leads
  Friday, May 27, 2011 @ 6:03 AM at Hageman Hall
• First Friday Rosary
  Friday, June 03, 2011 @ 5:30 AM at Hageman Hall
• Discernment: Small Group Leads
  Friday, June 03, 2011 @ 6:03 AM at Hageman Hall

Habits – Good & Bad

Team 3 presents a simple topic that hits home for everyone of us:

We all have good and bad habits. Step back and take an objective view of what you do daily, weekly, monthly. If your life was being recorded, what would make the highlight reel and what would you prefer be deleted? How can we focus on improving/adding the good habits and getting rid of the bad ones?

B.Y.O.B. Friday

This Friday is a first Friday Rosary. Bring Your Own Beads at 5:30AM and join us in prayer.

Volunteer Opportunities

• IHM Batahola Garage Sale: Looking for volunteers for the weekend before drop off and the garage sale weekend.

Upcoming Calendar

http://www.fathersteam.org/calendar/

• First Friday Rosary
  Friday, May 06, 2011 @ 5:30 AM at Hageman Hall
• Habits – Good & Bad
  Friday, May 06, 2011 @ 6:03 AM at Hageman Hall
  
  We all have good and bad habits. Step back and take an objective view of what you do daily, weekly, monthly. If your life was being recorded, what would make the highlight reel and what would you prefer be deleted? How can we focus on improving/adding the good habits and getting rid of the bad ones? Presented by Team 3
• Raising Children in a Digital Age
  Friday, May 13, 2011 @ 6:03 AM at Hageman Hall
  
  iPhone, iPod, iPad, …..iParent, in a networked world. It is critical that fathers stay involved in the technology of the day to understand what your child is experiencing in an environment of “uber” communication. Presented by Team 1
• Making Dinner Table Conversations Count
  Friday, May 20, 2011 @ 6:03 AM at Hageman Hall
  
  Dads, do you make good use of dinner table time to communicate with your children? Do you even make time for dinner as a family? How can you take an ordinary meal and turn it into a time to listen to your children and reach them on a new level? Presented by Team 5
• Discernment: Large Group Leads
  Friday, May 27, 2011 @ 6:03 AM at Hageman Hall
• First Friday Rosary
  Friday, June 03, 2011 @ 5:30 AM at Hageman Hall
• Discernment: Small Group Leads
  Friday, June 03, 2011 @ 6:03 AM at Hageman Hall

Be a Man

The lockout has ended and FATHERS Team resumes this Friday with Team 2 presenting:

What does it mean to be a man in today’s world? What does God expect of us?

B.Y.O.B. Friday

This Friday is a first Friday Rosary.  Bring Your Own Beads at 5:30AM and join us in prayer.

Volunteer Opportunities

• Easter Egg Hunt (Rescheduled):    Sean Ater is asking for help getting our 2^nd annual Easter Egg Hunt set up.  We are offering this event to the entire community in an effort to invite all to our parish.  There are 13,000 (yep you read it right!) eggs to “hide” on the football field on Easter Sunday morning. As you can imagine as much help as is available is needed. If you can help, we need about 8-10 people to help hide the eggs and coordinate the hunt. It would be from about Noon to 1:30 on Easter Sunday May 1st.  If you can help out, please contact Kirk Doerger at kdoerger1@gmail.com Thanks for any help you can give the Formation Commission. 
• IHM Batahola Garage Sale:  Looking for volunteers for the weekend before drop off and the garage sale weekend.

Meeting Materials

• The Testimony Of Catalina On The Holy Mass
• The Mass from the Bible

Upcoming Calendar

http://www.fathersteam.org/calendar/

• Be a Man
  Friday, April 29, 2011 @ 6:03 AM at Hageman Hall
  
  What does it mean to be a man in today’s world? What does God expect of us? Presented by Team 2
• First Friday Rosary
  Friday, May 06, 2011 @ 5:30 AM at Hageman Hall
• Habits – Good & Bad
  Friday, May 06, 2011 @ 6:03 AM at Hageman Hall
  
  We all have good and bad habits. Step back and take an objective view of what you do daily, weekly, monthly. If your life was being recorded, what would make the highlight reel and what would you prefer be deleted? How can we focus on improving/adding the good habits and getting rid of the bad ones? Presented by Team 3
• Raising Children in a Digital Age
  Friday, May 13, 2011 @ 6:03 AM at Hageman Hall
  
  iPhone, iPod, iPad, …..iParent, in a networked world. It is critical that fathers stay involved in the technology of the day to understand what your child is experiencing in an environment of “uber” communication. Presented by Team 1
• Making Dinner Table Conversations Count
  Friday, May 20, 2011 @ 6:03 AM at Hageman Hall
  
  Dads, do you make good use of dinner table time to communicate with your children? Do you even make time for dinner as a family? How can you take an ordinary meal and turn it into a time to listen to your children and reach them on a new level? Presented by Team 5
• Discernment: Large Group Leads
  Friday, May 27, 2011 @ 6:03 AM at Hageman Hall

Good Friday

No FATHERS Team on Good Friday, April 22.

Volunteer Opportunities

• Easter Egg Hunt:    Sean Ater is asking for help getting our 2^nd annual Easter Egg Hunt set up.  We are offering this event to the entire community in an effort to invite all to our parish.  There are 13,000 (yep you read it right!) eggs to “hide” on the football field on Easter Sunday morning. As you can imagine as much help as is available is needed. If you can help, we need about 8-10 people to help hide the eggs and coordinate the hunt. It would be from about Noon to 1:30 on Easter Sunday.  If you can help out, please contact Kirk Doerger at kdoerger1@gmail.com Thanks for any help you can give the Formation Commission. 
• IHM Batahola Garage Sale:  Looking for volunteers for the weekend before drop off and the garage sale weekend.

Meeting Materials

• The Testimony Of Catalina On The Holy Mass
• The Mass from the Bible

Upcoming Calendar

http://www.fathersteam.org/calendar/

• Be a Man
  Friday, April 29, 2011 @ 6:03 AM at Hageman Hall
  
  What does it mean to be a man in today’s world? What does God expect of us? Presented by Team 2
• First Friday Rosary
  Friday, May 06, 2011 @ 5:30 AM at Hageman Hall
• Habits – Good & Bad
  Friday, May 06, 2011 @ 6:03 AM at Hageman Hall
  
  We all have good and bad habits. Step back and take an objective view of what you do daily, weekly, monthly. If your life was being recorded, what would make the highlight reel and what would you prefer be deleted? How can we focus on improving/adding the good habits and getting rid of the bad ones? Presented by Team 3
• Raising Children in a Digital Age
  Friday, May 13, 2011 @ 6:03 AM at Hageman Hall
  
  iPhone, iPod, iPad, …..iParent, in a networked world. It is critical that fathers stay involved in the technology of the day to understand what your child is experiencing in an environment of “uber” communication. Presented by Team 1
• Making Dinner Table Conversations Count
  Friday, May 20, 2011 @ 6:03 AM at Hageman Hall
  
  Dads, do you make good use of dinner table time to communicate with your children? Do you even make time for dinner as a family? How can you take an ordinary meal and turn it into a time to listen to your children and reach them on a new level? Presented by Team 5

How your relationship with your mother affects your relationship with your kids and your wife?

A bunch of momma boys in Team 6 will share how to avoid the Oedipal complex:

Dads, who comes first, your mom or your wife? Your mother may put you on a pedestal, or alternatively, knock you off a pedestal, which may affect your relationship with your wife and kids. Learn how fathers just like you are discovering how to ensure mom’s love is not taken for granted and their wife and children remain the most special people in a man’s life.

Stuff you need to know

• Christ Renews His Parish Men’s Retreat—April 9 and 10
• Lenten Lunch with the Lord by Fr. Mark Burger—Every Monday through out Lent. 
• Celebration—June 19

Follow Us

You can get all of this information on our website http://www.fathersteam.org.  On the Follow Us page, you can learn about the different ways of getting notified about FATHER Team by liking our Facebook page or by following us on Twitter.

Upcoming Calendar

http://www.fathersteam.org/calendar/

• How your relationship with your Mother affects your relationship with your kids and your wife?
  Friday, April 08, 2011 @ 6:03 AM at Hageman Hall
  
  Dads, who comes first, your mom or your wife? Your mother may put you on a pedestal, or alternatively, knock you off a pedestal, which may affect your relationship with your wife and kids. Learn how fathers just like you are discovering how to ensure mom’s love is not taken for granted and their wife and children remain the most special people in a man’s life. Presented by Team 6
• What is really going on during the Mass?
  Friday, April 15, 2011 @ 6:03 AM at Hageman Hall
  
  You will have a new found respect for the Catholic Mass once you know what is truly happening. You will never say you are bored again. Presented by Team 1
• Be a Man
  Friday, April 29, 2011 @ 6:03 AM at Hageman Hall
  
  What does it mean to be a man in today’s world? What does God expect of us? Presented by Team 2
• First Friday Rosary
  Friday, May 06, 2011 @ 5:30 AM at Hageman Hall
• Habits – Good & Bad
  Friday, May 06, 2011 @ 6:03 AM at Hageman Hall
  
  We all have good and bad habits. Step back and take an objective view of what you do daily, weekly, monthly. If your life was being recorded, what would make the highlight reel and what would you prefer be deleted? How can we focus on improving/adding the good habits and getting rid of the bad ones? Presented by Team 3