Retreat Minutes (12/14 - 12/15)

• Attendees:
• Melanie
• Isabelle
• Larry
• Christmas Break
• Cardinal Manning Center Dinner, New Years Eve
• Winter Quarter
• Opening Week Advertising
• Set up table in front of U-SU and make a shift schedule
• Make flyers that ask questions (ex. Are you Catholic?) and post in classrooms and around campus
• Valentines Day
• Organize a table in front of U-SU
• Have banner and literature on display
• Hand out free copies of book, "How To Find Your Soulmate Without Losing Your Soul"
• Visit juvenile hall
• ACTS Challenge
• Melanie will forward emails
• Lent Challenges
• Have someone present a challenge each week of lent (ex. bring baking goods for homeless, random acts of kindness)
• Donate money to poorer nations
• Attend 40 Days For Life Vigil
• Try to get highlighted in school newspaper
• Propose making a Food Pantry at St. Thomas More Church
• Present idea to STM
• Ask Engineers Without Boarders or some other organization to help with construction
• Practice Extreme Couponing
• Save money by using coupons
• Use to gain publicity
• Camperships to SVdP Circle V Ranch
• Get sponsorships for juvenile hall kids exiting the juvenile hall
• Hygiene Kits Drive
• Put together hygiene kits for homeless men and women
• Juvenile Justice Week, March 4 - 10
• Movie Showing: Juvies
• Ask creators to come speak about documentary
• Spring Quarter
• Opening Week
• Set up table in front of U-SU to advertise club
• Make a shift schedule
• Hand out flowers with club advertisement, also put in faculty mailboxes
• Easter BBQ on Skid Row
• Organize BBQ during Easter Season 
• Serve egg-salad and hot dogs
• Mother's Day Pro-life Movement
• Make signs that say, "Thank Your Mom For Having You"
• Attend 40 Days For Life Vigils
• Movie Showing: documentary on evils of Planned Parenthood 
• Org leaders should watch and approve first
• Father's Day
• Organize a Sock Drive for homeless
• Summer Quarter
• Opening Week
• Set up table in front of U-SU to advertise club
• Make a shift schedule
• Ice-cream Giveaway
• Hand out popsicles with club advertisements
• New Years Resolutions
• Make effort to attend Mass as a group on Saturdays at St. Thomas More Church
• Work on relationships with members