“We live our baptism promises by serving others” - Father John Forbes

The Council suggests that each member of our Parish pray in gratitude for the gifts God has given us and ask ourselves, how each of us is taking care of our gifts.

• Develop Ministry Leaders
• Provide support and assistance to Ministry Leaders
• Encourage parishioners to live their Baptismal Promises, to come to know Jesus more intensely and to work in concrete ways to make their parishes true communities of Faith and vibrant sources of service to the larger community
• Form Christian stewards and to assist them to become strong disciples and parish leaders
• Encourage all parishioners to work in concrete ways to make their parishes true communities of faith and vibrant sources of service to the larger community.
• Encourage all parishioners to give generous support_time, money, prayers and personal service according to their circumstances to the parish, diocesan programs and to the Universal Church

What is a Christian disciple? It is one who responds to Christ's call and shapes his/her life in imitation of Christ. A Christian steward is one who receives all of God's gifts gratefully, cherishes and tends them in a responsible and accountable manner, shares them in justice and love with others and returns them with increase to the Lord.

Father Forbes recommends that all disciples read the Pastoral Letter on Stewardship, put forth by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.  A link to this can be found under the "Links" section on this page.

Meetings are at 4:00 pm on the third Monday of the month. 
The next scheduled meeting is January 18, 2021.

 Happy New Year Ministry Leaders!  Some thoughts from Stewardship

            At this time, the Governor’s decision still exists, no more than 10 persons in a gathering. Father

            Forbes wants this to be the response of the Parish for ministerial meetings. 

            I feel that, once the situation improves, we will have to rebuild our volunteer disciple

            base.  We have engaged with the Diocese to provide a training on building disciples, helping

            parishioners look at their talents and with prayerful consideration to think again about

            being a volunteer disciple. This was scheduled in January. We will have a new decision

            about a date in the beginning of March. I am hoping parishioners will think again about

            making the Parish a vibrant, giving, prayerful place to Worship our God and love our

            neighbor. When we are able to open, two priorities of mine will be resuming the

            information desk and welcoming persons to the Parish and re-establish coffee and doughnuts.

            So many people have said how much they miss the opportunity to have a cup of coffee

            with their friends. We will recruit a leader but hope to ask a specific ministry to assume

            responsibility to prepare, staff and clean-up for each Second Sunday of the Month. This

            will allow us to spread out the service. Do we have a ministry who wants to take the

            lead and step up and plan for the first time we can welcome guests to the Hall.

            Thanks to Elphie we have purchased two new television sets with ROKU capability. These

            are mounted on moving carts, meeting classroom safe compliance issues. We are in the

            process of making an  inventory of our audio-visual assets, making certain all operating

            instructions are with the equipment. We do not have a cable link but have made it so that

            Formed and other instructional materials are available through our guest network. When

            we researched instructional materials for Faith Formation, we have found and been told

            by the Diocese that some of these materials are web available. Our guest network is

            only available when we make it so. Currently, we have the guest network turned on

            from 6a- 10a on Saturday, Sundays from 8a-11a and Wednesday evening for scheduled

            educational or group programming. IF YOU PLAN TO USE THE NETWORK FOR

            ADDITIONAL PROGRAMMING, please notify Suzanne Wolonick.  She is the

            technical adviser  for audio-visual equipment.  The new equipment will be kept in

            the classroom used for Kindergarten and First Grade. All ministries are welcome to

            move the equipment and use it. The new equipment is prioritized for Children’s

            Faith Formation. It cannot be used for other purposes during Faith Formation time.

            The new equipment also will be locked in the two above noted classrooms. If you

            use it, return it to the locked room.  All supporting audio-visual materials odds

            and ends, cables, bulbs, batteries, etc will be kept in a designated closet.

            The original service and use manuals will be in Faith Formation Office. Abbreviated

             use instructions will be attached to the equipment. Please do not remove. …..If

            you are aware of items needed, please let me know.  Bulb for projector just blew, we

            did not have a spare and its taken a couple of weeks to get equipment back to use.

            We prefer to have a spare on hand. There is a need for a second white board on wheels

            as two services are requesting the one we have at the same time. We are looking at

            this.