Saturday, January 05, 2013

Announcements 5th – 6th Jan 2012, The Epiphany of the Lord





1.     Administration (Rosters and Special Events)
a.     Special events roster for Jan has been published.
b.     Group 2 servers will be serving the Novena service on next Sat, 11th Jan.
c.     The society’s hierarchy for 2013 has been published.
d.     The contact list for 2012 has been published.  Please obtain a copy.  There should not be any excuse for servers not to have the contact numbers of their fellow members. 
e.     As part of their spiritual formation and community building, servers secondary 1 and above are to have regular attendance for Friday night bible sharing from 830pm to 10pm.
f.      The following primary 6 servers will move on to secondary 1 in 2013 and should already be serving in following mass groups.  Group Leaders to check.  Any server who wishes to change to another mass group is to submit a written request signed by their parents.  Attendance ICs are to note these changes and ensure that the attendance sheets for 2013 have already been updated.
                                               i.     Group 1 (Sat 530pm)
1.     Joshua de Souza
                                             ii.     Group 3 (Sun 9am)
1.     Kristopher Go
2.     Zachary Chan
3.     Martin Hernandez
4.     Jonah Teo
                                            iii.     Group 5 (Sun 530pm)
1.     Timothy Low

2.     Canteen and Chinese New Year Cookie Sales (High Importance)
a.     Rosters have been published.  Please check when you are down for duty and be punctual.  If you are unable to report for duty, please exchange your slot with another server and notify an Exco member.  Please notify Head of Administration II, Justin Yeo immediately if your duty clashes with your normal weekend mass duty.  Report in servers’ t-shirt.
b.     All servers must take home an important form consisting 3 pages immediately after debrief.  Group leaders to ensure that no server leaves without his form. 
c.     The form must be submitted latest next Sun, 12th Jan.  Servers are reminded to be considerate.

3.     Retirement and migration
a.     The following servers have made the decision to retire as of 1st Jan 2013.  Please keep them in your prayers.  The Society would like to thank them for their years of service to the Lord and wishes them all the best in their future endeavours.  Retiring servers, please contact the Vestments IC Luke Yeo or Emanuel Lee to return your vestments (cassocks, capes and sashes) by Sun, 6th Jan.  Head of Administration I, Benedict Koh and both Vestment ICs to ensure.

                                               i.     Benedict Jacob (Normal retirement)
                                             ii.     Jacob de Jesus (Migration)
                                            iii.     John de Jesus (Migration)
                                            iv.     Joshua de Jesus (Migration)
                                              v.     Julian Lee (Normal retirement)
                                            vi.     Nicholas Rankine (Normal retirement)
                                           vii.     Shawn Wong (Seminary studies)
                                         viii.     Sherman Lim (Normal retirement)

4.     Cassock exchange
a.     The cassock exchange list is out.  All servers are given till 31st Jan to exchange their cassocks and sign on the cassock cupboard list.
b.     All servers on the list are to make arrangements to exchange their cassocks with the other server on the list on their own.  Cassocks should be washed and ironed before exchange.
c.     Please contact Luke Yeo or Emanuel Lee if there are any problems.  Servers on the list which are still using a poorly fitted cassock because they have neglected to change it by Thu, 31st Jan will not be allowed to serve masses till they have made the exchange.
d.     Servers whose names are marked with an asterisk* on the list will not receive their new cassock yet till the second exchange in 2013.