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Faith formation

 

           Committee Member - works within the committee seeking to respond to and coordinate the parish initiatives in faith development and lifelong education by assessing and evaluating current efforts and assisting staff to develop new initiatives. CF is one of 8 Standing Committees which meet once each month and send a voting representative to the Pastoral Council.

 

ADULT FAITH FORMATION

 

            Team Member - assists leaders as requested.

 

BABYSITTING/CHILD CARE (Patti Andreski)

 

            Coordinator - schedules and supervises child care program during the 10:30am Mass on Sundays; assists with scheduling child care for various other church activities as needed (especially the Regional Retreat).

           

            Adult Volunteer - provides child care during the 10:30am Mass and during other church activities as needed.

 

            Teen Volunteer - provides child care during the 10:30am Mass and during other church activities as needed.

 

BIANNUAL SERVICE MISSION

 

            Adult Project Coordinators - work with the ministry team using whatever skills and expertise they possess (e.g., gardening or construction) to design outreach projects to help the poor and others within and around our community; coordinators provide plans and tools to accomplish the project and work with teens to see the project through. This evolving ministry takes little more than a week, but is intensive, and requires commitment.

 

CHILDREN’S LITURGY OF THE WORD (Sue Flanagan)

 

            Presider - leads children up to 5th grade in praying and reading Scripture, and helping them to understand God’s Word and apply it to their lives (10:30 Mass on Sundays throughout the year).

 

            Cantor - leads youth in Responsorial Psalm and other songs during Children’s Liturgy of the Word.

 

            Monitor - helps presider as requested during Children’s Liturgy of the Word. Monitors are usually adults or youth older than 5th grade.

 

Whole Community Catechesis (Billie Warner)

 

            Teacher/Catechist - leads Formation and Education break out sessions with grade school students in Pre-k-5th grade. Training is available, so commitment, respect for children and love of God, is the criteria along with being 21 years of age or older. 

 

            Teacher’s Aide - assists the Catechist is helping children during the session. Adults and teens are welcome.

 

            Liaison to CF Committee - is a Catechist who connects the CF projects to the needs of all Catechists, working to ensure communication and support for this ministry and its ministers.

 

SACRAMENTAL PREPARATION

 

            Baptism Prep Team Member (Chris and Lynn Fisher) - is an individual or couple willing to work in teams to provide Baptism preparation for parents of newborn children. Duties include scheduling Baptisms, as well as assisting with Baptisms when needed. Team members need not be parents.

 

            Confirmation Team Member  - is a volunteer who works on the team preparing youth to receive the Sacrament of Confirmation. Since SEAS is a Restored Order community, this team works closely with the Eucharist Team. (There are three Sacraments which establish full Initiation into the Catholic Church: Baptism, Confirmation and Eucharist, in that order. They follow the Catholic Rite, and the restored order of celebrating the Sacraments reclaims the focus of each Sacrament and the original rite.)

 

            Eucharist Team Member  - is a volunteer who works on the team preparing youth to receive the Sacrament of First Eucharist. Since SEAS is a Restored Order community, this team works closely with the Confirmation Team. (There are three Sacraments which establish full Initiation into the Catholic Church: Baptism, Confirmation and Eucharist, in that order. They follow the Catholic Rite, and the restored order of celebrating the Sacraments reclaims the focus of each Sacrament and the original rite.)

 

            Marriage Prep Team Members (Chris and Lynn Fisher) - are married couples willing to work as a team to provide preparation (Pre-Cana) for engaged couples preparing for marriage. Currently, Pre-Cana is offered twice each year.

 

            RCIA Team Member (Bill Beiter, Carolyn Beiter) - offers spiritual guidance and instruction to adults and children through the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults, primarily working with those who are unbaptized or uncatechized in their journey to become Catholic.

 

            Reconciliation Team Member (Tracey Traino) - is a volunteer who works on the team preparing youth for celebration of the sacrament of Reconciliation.

 

YOUTH GROUPS

 

            Junior High Team (Lisa O'Brien) - is an adult or young adult who meets biweekly during the school year with the Junior High Youth Group, offering our young people a youth ministry session which meets both the diocesan criteria for Catechesis for youth in 6th -8th grades, and follows the comprehensive youth ministry model, which is creative and energetic ministry to, with, by, and for all youth.  

 

            Senior High Team (Lisa O'Brien) - is an adult or young adult who meets weekly year round with the Senior High Youth Group, offering our young people a youth ministry session which meets both the diocesan criteria for Catechesis for teens in 9th - 12th grades, and follows the comprehensive youth ministry model, which is creative and energetic ministry to, with, by, and for all youth.