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The Religious Education team is very excited to welcome all families back for the new school year! Classes begin August 19/20.

RE Parent & Student Welcome: Plan to join your children on the first week in the main church worship space at the beginning of classes August 19/20! Our parish priests would like to personally welcome you and offer a blessing to all the Religious Education families. Our Director of Religious Education, Sandy Kimmey, will have some important information about the upcoming year and will introduce our new Confirmation Coordinator and Middle School Youth Minister, Mike Kennedy. Following the welcome, parents will be asked to accompany their children to their classrooms to meet their Catechists!

Please join us! We’re looking forward

to connecting with you all!

Class lists are still being assigned and will be sent out within the next few weeks.

Are You Our Missing Piece?

The RE team has been busy getting ready for the upcoming school year and are looking forward to offering faith formation for over 500 children again this year! Please consider volunteering for the program. There are various roles you can volunteer for to help us out and provide some stewardship to your parish, grow in your own faith, andsave yourself a little money.

Our greatest need is for Assistant Catechists, a role which requires no outside preparation but is vital to providing a positive and constructive environment in our classrooms.
We also have several classes of registered students with no Lead catechist assigned yet. We have been working diligently this summer to update and improve the lesson plans so that all the materials will be prepared for Lead Catechists by our August 17^th meeting.
Campus Dad, a roll which will require you to be present during class time to help monitor the doors and hallways before, during and briefly after class. We still need a volunteer for Wednesday at 5:30 or 7:00 pm.

We have a volunteer position open at every class time for a Substitute Catechist. We often have volunteers cancel for class at the last moment due to illness or emergency and would like to have a volunteer here on standby each week who can step in where/if needed.

To learn more about these volunteer positions, please click the volunteer link below for more descriptive information.

Volunteer Here

Catechist Needs 25-26.pdf

Middle School Youth Ministry

Please join us in welcoming Mr. Michael Kennedy to our parish staff as he steps into the role of Coordinator of Middle School Ministry for St. Stephen the Martyr. Mike brings a wealth of experience in program development and a strong ability to accompany and engage with our middle school youth in both the parish and school communities. In this new role, he will lead our Confirmation program and help build a vibrant middle school youth group that serves students from both the parish and the school. Welcome, Mike!

New Middle School Ministry - Catching Fire!

6th - 8th grade students watch for future events coming from Catching Fire – the new Middle School Ministry! We will explore what it means to be a young Catholic in today's world full of all the noise and distractions that surround us. We will offer a number of experiences and opportunities which will allow us to learn about the relationships we have with Jesus, with our friends and families, and within ourselves. Catching Fire will encourage us to play an active role in our faith formation journey under the guidance of the Holy Spirit in our lives.