Our Pastoral Council works to identify and coordinate the many ministries and activities in our parish. Our goal is to open lines of communication between our pastor, the pastoral council, our pastoral commissions, and the various groups, we all share in coordinating activities within the parish. In the spirit of cooperation, they come together to build a strong, welcoming spirit within our parish that will foster even greater participation in our community.
Our Pastoral Council consists of parishioners who give their time and leadership talents to help our pastor in his administration of the close to sixty ministries and activities in the parish. Each spring, we encourage members of these groups to consider nomination to the council as well as those who would represent the parish-at-large.

Pastoral Council Members.

Sandee Mizula (Co-Chair) | Sue Channel (Co-Chair)
Ella Cottrill (Student Member) | Christopher Donelan | Jason Edson
Marcy Hoynoski | Deb Jurek | Tricia Kelly | Kathy Melnik
Sandra Pavoni | Jason Semaski

Can. 511. In each diocese, to the extent that pastoral circumstances recommend it, a pastoral council is to be established whose responsibility it is to investigate under the authority of the bishop all those things that pertain to pastoral works, to ponder them, and to propose practical conclusions about them.
Can. 512. §1. The pastoral council consists of Christian faithful who are in full communion with the Catholic Church, clerics, members of institutes of consecrated life, and especially lay persons, who are designated in a manner determined by the diocesan bishop.
§2. The Christian faithful who are appointed to the pastoral council are to be so selected that the entire portion of the people of God which constitutes the diocese is truly reflected, with due regard for the diverse regions, social conditions, and professions of the diocese as well as the role which they have in the apostolate, either as individuals or in conjunction with others.
§3. No one except Christians of proven faith, good morals, and outstanding prudence are to be appointed to the pastoral council.
Can. 513. §1. The pastoral council is to be established for a period of time according to the prescriptions of the statutes that are issued by the bishop.
§2. When the see is vacant the pastoral council ceases to exist.
Can. 514. §1. It pertains exclusively to the diocesan bishop to convoke the pastoral council according to the necessities of the apostolate and to preside over it; the pastoral council enjoys only a consultative vote; it is for the bishop alone to make public what has been done in the council.
§2. The pastoral council is to be convoked at least once a year.
Can. 536 §1. If the diocesan bishop judges it opportune after he has heard the presbyteral council, a pastoral council is to be established in each parish, over which the pastor presides and in which the Christian faithful, together with those who share in pastoral care by virtue of their office in the parish, assist in fostering pastoral activity.
§2. A pastoral council possesses a consultative vote only and is governed by the norms established by the diocesan bishop.