Christ the King Committees

We are called to use our God given talents and to not bury them in the sand for safe keeping, as we heard a few weeks ago in the Gospel.  To be active is to give back, therefore I’m asking each of you to prayerfully consider being on one of our four committees here at Christ the King.  We only meet 5 times over fall, winter and spring and break for the summer.  It is through these four committees that you help facilitate every aspect of our community of faith.  Come bring your ideas and let’s move forward in planting the seeds of God’s vineyard! 
In addition to the committees, the PCCW and Holy Name Society are very active at Christ the King.  All adult men and women are members of these two groups.

Family Life

Diocesan description: The Family Life Committee is to assist the parish pastoral council in fostering Christian family life in the parish.  Among its concerns are:  the central place of the family in all parish pastoral activities; parish hospitality and social activities; youth ministry; vocations to the priesthood and the consecrated life; pre-marriage preparation; marriage enrichment; natural family planning; and the pastoral care of single adult Catholics, divorced Catholics, divorced and remarried Catholics, and widows and widowers.   
 
Current Christ the King activities
  • Baptism ministry
  • Bereavement ministry
  • Caregivers Ministry
  • Christ the King feast celebration
  • Christmas giving tree
  • Elderly greeting cards
  • Garage Sale (for youth group)
  • Hospitality ministry
  • HS graduate brunch
  • King’s Community food pantry
  • Lenten Soup Dinner
  • Mariann’s Closet winter clothing drive
  • Monthly welcome, birthday, anniversary celebration
  • Operation Christmas Child
  • Parish picnic
  • Pilgrimages
  • Prayer chain
  • Rotary Christmas lights (gr 8)
  • Server recognition
  • Youth group
 
Current Committee members:  Kay Derks, Joan Meyer, Shelly Schultz, Kris Franklin, Sue Cattanach, Sue Toufar 

​Pastoral Council representative: Joan Meyer

Social Justice

Diocesan description:  The Social Justice Committee is to assist the parish pastoral council in fostering pastoral concern and action for justice in the world, especially in all areas of parish life.  Its concerns includes:  promotion of the respect for all human life; pastoral care of the afflicted, the needy, and the imprisoned; the pastoral care of migrants and refugees; just structures in the parish; stewardship; and the greater understanding of the Church’s teaching on social justice. 
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Current Christ the King activities
  • C.O.M.E meals
  • Christmas Children’s Mass
  • Christmas Giving Tree
  • Divine Mercy Sunday celebration
  • Eucharistic ministers
  • Home bound ministry
  • Kitchen angel
  • Lectors
  • Liturgical decorating
  • Marianne’s closet 
  • Music ministry
  • Parish Mission
  • Retreats
  • Sacristan
  • Shadow Stations (youth group)
  • Silent retreat
  • Stations of the Cross (Lent)
  • Ushers/Greeters
 
Current Committee members:  Vivian Gamble, Dan McNeeley (chair/cochair), Deacon Ray

​Pastoral Council representatives:  Ardell Klein
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Sacred Worship

Diocesan description: The Sacred Worship Committee is to assist the parish pastoral council in fostering, first and foremost, the liturgical life of the parish as celebrated in the Sacraments and other rites of the Church, with special attention to the sick and isolated in the parish.  Also of concern to this committee are the devotional aspects of the parish’s life of prayer.
 
Current Christ the King activities
  • Christmas Children’s Mass
  • Divine Mercy Sunday celebration
  • Eucharistic ministers
  • Lectors
  • Liturgical decorating
  • Parish Mission
  • Renewed (women’s group)
  • Retreats
  • Sacristan
  • Shadow Stations (youth group)
  • Silent retreat
  • Stations of the Cross (Lent)
  • Ushers/greeters
  • Adoration (24 hour / monthly)
  • Anointing of the Sick / Opening CCD Mass
  • Communion to home bound
  • Confirmation brunches and retreat
  • Holy Spirit Prayer Group
  • Music ministry
  • Reconciliation (Advent/Lent) for students
  • Rosary before Mass
  • Summer Praise and Worship Adoration (Wed)
 
Current Committee members:  Jeff Austin, Diane Lang, Bonnie Jackel, Colleen Bauer (chair open)

​Pastoral Council representative:  Pauline Frome 

Education

Diocesan description:  The Catholic Education Committee is to assist the parish pastoral council in fostering the educational aspect of the pastoral mission of the parish, which includes evangelization, adult education, catechetics, the Catholic school (if there be one in the parish), missionary activity, and ecumenism.  If a Catholic high school serves the parish it, too, would fall within the concern of the Catholic Education Committee, without prejudice to any other consultative body which has particular responsibility for the pastoral activity in the Catholic High School
 
Current Christ the King activities
  • Bible studies
  • Catechism in a Year
  • Lay formation
  • MERIT - Marshfield’s Exceptional Religious Instruction Team; Catholic catechetical program for intellectually challenged students
  • Student education (Grades 1-10)
  • Sunday school (PreK and K)
  • Vacation Bible School (VBS)
 
Current Committee members:  Deb Mlsna (chair), Mary Buss, Sharon Rollins 

​Pastoral Council representatives:  Annmarie Wolf, Sue Mews