Community Groups
Parish Action Teams
Parish Action Teams
Parish Action Teams are committees organized by the Sowers Leadrship Team to address priority social justice issues that five or more parishioners are willing to work on. There are also action teams organized by the Office of Social Justice that meet on an Archdiocesan Level. Join our online Parish Action Team Community Group for up-to-date information, to connect with one another and support each other.
Stewards of the Earth (STEM)
STEM addresses care for God’s creation, including global warming, simple living and environmental stewardship. They also are sponsoring an education program on global warming, JustMatters. They meet on the second Tuesday of each month, 6:30 to 9 pm. Marge Knowlton is the Chair.
Respect Life Action Team
Respect Life Action Team addresses Catholic teachings on respect for life. This team organizes “Respect Life Month and Sunday,” sponsors our October Respect Life project (e.g. Baby bottle campaign for our LifeCare Center), recruits volunteers to work at our LifeCare Center, develops and implements a legislative program to promote respect life, and educates the parish on full continuum of life issues, from conception to natural death. They also sell Mother’s Day corsages to support their activities. It meets on the 2nd Thursday of each month. To see our minutes, documents, join our Respect Life Action Team Group (click here)!
Action Teams of the Office of Social Justice are:
- Health Care (Gary Gullikson is our representative)
- Global Warming (Bruce Labno is our representative)
- Housing (Sally Krupich is our representative) Immigration.
Key Advocates:
Key advocates are appointed by the Sowers Leadership Development Team to monitor, advise and educate the Sowers Leadership Team on a particular faith-based social justice issue. We have key advocates for the following areas:
Children (ICan) ...Sue Dwuznick
Hunger (http://www.bread.org/) Karen Fitzpatrick
Peace and Nonviolence (http://www.ecapc.org) Greg Hagen
Sustainable Agriculture (http://www.landstewardshipproject.org) ...Barb Prokop
Globalization (http://www.americas.org) Carl Scheider