These include setting goals and long-range plans, preparation of budgets, tuition rates and establishment of an awareness program to communicate the goals, objectives and programs of the School. That is why they begin in the fifth grade, and why all of us should encourage our youth to continue this ministry throughout high school and beyond. In many parishes ushers are involved mainly in gathering the offering. We like our ushers to fill a more important role welcoming worshipers, finding seats at crowded Masses and other services, finding families and individuals to present gifts at the Eucharist, passing out bulletins at the completion of Mass and replacing Missallettes and song books in the pew racks. We can always use more ushers.
Volunteers are always welcome.
You could well have been presented with this directory by a member of the Welcoming Committee who, like all of us, want you to feel at home here as quickly as possible. You might consider volunteering to serve on this committee yourself, as a way to make some new friends. Ideal members of the committee, we have found, are new parishioners themselves. All teens are welcome, as are adults who would be willing to make a one-year commitment to youth ministry.