What do we do?
The parish pastoral council is ultimately responsible for communications within the
parish and between the parish and external bodies such as the
pastoral area, the diocese, and so on. The council has delegated some of this
responsibility to the communications team, a rather grand title for the few people who
are struggling to improve the way we communicate.
Much of the team's efforts has been directed at producing this web site which went on
line just over a year ago with a mere half-dozen pages. Now there are three dozen pages
and more to come, this page being the latest.
One way in which the parish communicates with parishioners is via the newsletters
which you can see HERE. The first
newsletters were produced quarterly by the communications team. The weekly
newsletters now in use are produced by Fr. Paul but the communications team is
hoping to relieve him of this task in the near future.
On 24th April 2011 we launched our
Facebook "page" which you can see by clicking the "Find us on Facebook" link in the
left column. This is a new project and it will take some time to settle down.
Perhaps you would like to become a "fan" of the page by clicking the "like" button
next to the page's title.
Parishioners who are unable to attend Saturday/Sunday Mass for whatever reason can
"hear" Mass by tuning in to 107 FM on their radios. While this service has been
available for many years, it has not been entirely successful. The transmission is
necessarily of low power and many parishioners are unable to receive the signal because
of obstructions such as hills, trees, other buildings, etc. There is also considerable
interference from radio broadcast signals with frequencies close to 107 Mz.
The communications team is presently assessing other means of delivering Mass into
peoples homes such as computer streaming or a direct TV transmission.
Your Comms Team needs you!
This is all great stuff but we need help. We need to take on new members who will
either assist with existing projects like Facebook or the web site, or will get stuck
into new projects like the newsletter. New people have new ideas and may think
of things that we haven't thought of yet. They may have expertise that we don't have.
Maybe you would like to help out in some way. Whatever you can contribute, no matter
how much or how little, I am sure that we would welcome your presence on the team.
Why not contact us about it? You can send an e-mail to the comms team, telephone
Fr. Paul, or telephone the parish office. Contact details are on the
CONTACT US page.
We look forward to hearing from you.
