Adult Faith Formation Team

We are looking to put together a group of parishioners with the interest and background to be a part of organizing and running programs to provide faith formation for adults. Currently at St. Anthony’s we offer a Bible study program for women called Walking with Purpose and R.C.I.A. for adults interested in receiving the sacraments of the Catholic Church. We would like to put together a team to initiate and run the following programs: Baptismal Preparation Program, Marriage Preparation Program, an English as a Second Language Program, Bible Study groups, spirituality and formation groups for men and women, a Catechism study group, and others. If you are interested in helping out in any way or have ideas of your own, please reach out!

Social and Moral Action Response Team (S.M.A.R.T.)

After prayer, discussion, and discernment, this team would meet to plan our response as the Roman Catholic Church of Saint Anthony of Padua to the many challenges in our secular world to all that we as a Catholic family of faith hold sacred. Some of these issues would be abortion, discrimination, inequality, end of life issues, religious persecution, violence, human trafficking, poverty, and many other concerns that are, sadly, too numerous to list here. With the dignity of so many lives being threatened in so many ways by our culture of death, we have a moral obligation to respond in the name of our Lord and in the Franciscan spirit of our patron, Saint Anthony of Padua.
 

Parish Buildings and Grounds Team (P. B.& G. Team)

This group of parishioners would assess, oversee, and manage the repair, maintenance, and upkeep of our parish buildings and grounds. This team would also be tasked with the planning and managing of parish projects. Parishioners with any experience with trades, facility management, and/or project management would be perfect for the job!

Parish Outreach Team (P.O.T.)

This team of parishioners would plan, oversee, and organize all of our outreach efforts here at St. Anthony’s. This could include any of the following and more: assessing and ministering to the needs of the sick and homebound, responding to the needs of the poor and needy here at home and around the world, bereavement ministry, offering or directing people to emergency services including AA, NA, the Salvation Army, and other support groups and agencies, support for Moms and Dads in need with regard to care for their newborn, coordinating with our Religious Education Program’s community service work, coordinating our parish Giving Tree Program, food drives, clothing drives, and outreach fundraisers, and coordinating with Catholic Charities and other local outreach programs and agencies.
 

Special Events and Activities Team (S.E.A.T.)

Social occasions are such an important part of our parish life. We would like to build a team to help plan and organize these events and activities here at St. Anthony’s. Events like the FESTA have been a long-standing tradition along with many others. Whether it is about bringing back some of the family favorites of the past or coming up with new ideas, this group will help St. Anthony’s to be both a spiritual and social center in our community. Parish trips, pilgrimages, dances, parish parties, breakfasts, Christmas and Easter activities for children, concerts, welcoming events for new parishioners, and many more are all possibilities!
 

Spirituality and Liturgy Team (S.A.L.T.)

We would like to get a small team together to oversee the planning of our liturgies and spiritual devotions throughout the year. This would encompass our regular Mass schedule, special days of the liturgical year (such as Christmas, Easter, Marian Feasts, All Saints Day, and other Holy Days of Obligation), Eucharistic Adoration, our parish devotions, and other events and occasions. The oversight of the various liturgical ministries such as altar servers, lectors, extraordinary ministers of Holy Communion, ministers of hospitality/ushers, and music ministers would also be a part of the work of this team.

Celebrating Faith Through Culture is a program sponsored by this team.

Young Adult Ministry

If you are 18 through twenty/thirty something, please join us! This ministry aims to provide Catholic enrichment for young adults through spiritual, social, and outreach opportunities.

Youth Ministry Team

This team includes the Director/Coordinator of our Religious Education Program, the coordinator of our 8^thgrade Edge Program, the coordinator of the Papa’s Pizzeria Program, the director of our CYO program, and any of the directors/leaders of other youth ministries and programs run or sponsored by St. Anthony’s. If you have an interest in working with this team regarding the overseeing, organizing, and planning of youth events and activities for our young people here at St. Anthony’s and in our local community, please contact us! Please check out our parish website as well to see if your skills and talents could be used to help with any of the programs that we already have in place for youth.