Parish Development Ministries
Financial stewardship, pastoral leadership and communication infrastructures support everything we do as a community. We hope you will consider helping out in these areas.
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Financial Council
The importance of be conscientious stewards of the generosity of our parishioners, especially in these times of economic uncertainty and intense scrutiny cannot be overemphasized. The function of this ministry is to review diocesan financial and parish audit reports, whenever available and taking appropriate action as required. Members will meet with the Pastor or administrator at least quarterly.
Office Assistants
Volunteers in this ministry help the office staff with monthly and special event mailings. Duties include duplicating, folding material, stuffing envelopes and applying labels and postage. This work is accomplished during normal office business hours, on an as needed basis.
Parish Historian
The aim of the historian is to encourage and facilitate the recording and preservation of significant past and current events in the history of St. Catherine's parish.
Parish Pastoral Council
Formed at the direction of the Diocese, the parish pastoral council is a consultative group consisting of the Pastor and selected members of the parish. Their function is to monitor and understand current opportunities facing the parish and threats to its vibrancy. The council acts as the Pastors sounding board and is involved with practical decisions of consequence resulting from investigation and reflection. It sets priorities, proposes practical solutions and sets benchmarks for success in the parish's ministry.
Printable Materials
This ministry provides printed materials for Religious Education and parish needs. Experienced graphic designers provide that professional image for the parish.
Scrip / Gift Card Program
This program offers pre-paid debit cards, for a major area grocery store, as a fund raiser. The parish currently realizes a 5% return on the face value of all the cards sold. The proceeds from this "no cost" fund raiser help to offset the charitable works of the parish.
Volunteers are needed to sell the Scrip cards at all Masses. Cards are also available in the church office during the week. All parishioners are encouraged to participate in this ongoing fundraising effort.
Stewardship Committee
The main objective of the Stewardship Committee is to permeate parish life and activity so that the faithful recognize the call of Christian Stewards. The committee encourages people to commit time, talent and treasure to God's mission through the Church.
The committee also supports all functioning ministries and creates or retires ministries as the needs of the Parish dictates.
Web Site
The responsibilities of the Web-Master are to design, create, maintain and update a web site to provide detailed, accurate information regarding parish operations to parishioners and others. The accuracy and timeliness of the information contained on the Parish web site is the responsibility of the ministry heads that use it as a communication tool. We welcome photographers, writers/researchers and html buffs to join us.
