Additional requirements recommend that the members have received and are receiving all of their sacraments. This ministry is looking for as many people that are willing to make a commitment to become a catechist. The amount of training includes about 30 hours throughout each year. Workshops are offered by the Diocese approximately 3 times during the year. The catechists attend a monthly meeting, provide instruction each week for at least one and half hours with a two hour preparation for each class session and assist with various activities throughout the CCD year.
Families are the primary source of vocations.
It is the parents who provide the window to God and to the future of the church. It is to the parents that God had given the precious gifts of children and the responsibility to nurture their lives, their faith and their future. You are called and you are challenged to create a positive experience of the domestic church and to open up discussion with your children to all church vocations especially that of the Priesthood and Religious Life by forming your sons and daughters as generous servants of the Lord who calls them. The amount of training that will be involved is approximately 12 hours a year and one retreat. This ministry is appropriate for all ages from youth age to grandparents.