General Information
St. Jude Commission for Stewardship Ministry
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Contact: Greg Dant , Chairperson
Email: gregdant@comcast.net
Building & Grounds Committee
Contact: Bill Sanders
Phone: (317) 786-4371 parish center
This committee is responsible for monitoring, maintaining and improving the facilities and parish grounds. Anyone interested in volunteering to help with special projects is always welcome and greatly appreciated. Other Maintenance & Repair Advisory/Study Committee members include: Cliff Peters, Ed Buergler, Steve Coomes, Tom McKeand, and Stan Schutz.
Finance Committee
Contact: Paul Sahm, Chairperson
Email: paul@sahm.net
This committee is responsible for the coordination and preparation of the annual parish budget. They evaluate the financial condition of the parish by reviewing all parish assets and coordination with all parish groups. This ensures the mission, values, and goals set by the pastoral council may be achieved. Each organization's treasurer is a member of this committee as well as staff members and council.
Stewardship/United Catholic Appeal (UCA) Committee
Contact: Greg Dant
Email: gregdant@comcast.net
The goal of this committee is to educate our parishioners about the meaning of stewardship and to help our parishioners to see that stewardship involves time, talent and treasure. Activities may include a yearly Time and Talent Fair and the United Catholic Appeal/Parish Stewardship commitment, usually held in the fall. New members are always welcome.
Donations to the United Catholic Appeal Campaign help with support our Home Mission Parishes like St. Philip Neri and Holy Cross. Funds collected also help to train and educate our seminarians, help support Catholic Charities, and support the retired priest of the Archdiocese.
The stewardship portion of the UCA Campaign, allows our parish to plan activities, ministries, and yearly budget based upon returned pledge cards. Pledge cards may be obtained from the Parish Center or in the bulletin racks of church throughout the months of November and December for those who did not receive one in the mail.
Pre-campaign activities may include a Ministry Fair, stewardship talks during Mass and receptions which are usually held during the months of October and November.
St. Jude participates in a stewardship campaign entitled "Growing Stewards". The purpose of this campaign is to help parishioners grow in their awareness of stewardship cognitively and spiritually; thus enabling stewardship to become a way of life for each.
The Stewardship Committee would like to see the number of pledge cards turned in to increase each year.
School Family Stewardship Policy
A parish family shall be defined as “active” for purposes of school enrollment priority and subsidized parishioner tuition rates as:
1) A Catholic family registered in the parish.
2) A Catholic family actively participating in Sunday liturgy. All active families are expected to worship at St. Jude Church. Attendance at weekend Mass will be verified by the use of parish giving envelopes placed in the collection an average of at least 2 Sundays per month. Envelope usage will be tracked beginning immediately.
3) A Catholic family practicing stewardship of time and talent to the parish community. Areas of giving may include, but are not limited to, adult religious education programs, choir, sacramental preparation, commissions, committees, school volunteer opportunities, and other parish volunteer opportunities.
Families with children in St. Jude School receiving subsidized parishioner tuition rates are required to meet the definition of active members throughout their child(ren)’s attendance at St. Jude School.
Families failing to sustain their status as active, registered members of the parish will be notified that they must meet their membership obligations or be considered non-active and not eligible for subsidized parishioner tuition rates for the following school year.
If a family returns to active, registered membership status, they will once again be considered eligible for subsidized parishioner tuition rates. The criteria for re-establishing themselves as “active” will require a renewed history of participation as outlined in this stewardship policy.
Families receiving the subsidized parishioner tuition rates but failing to meet the requirements set forth during a student’s eighth and final year at St. Jude will not be eligible to have a letter sent to Roncalli verifying their active status to receive that school’s subsidized tuition rate.
New Families wishing to enroll children in the school for the first time must have an established record of being active, registered members of St. Jude Church to be eligible for subsidized parishioner tuition rates. If a family has recently registered with St. Jude and they wish to be eligible for subsidized parishioner tuition rates, they may provide evidence in the form of a letter from the pastor of their prior parish attesting to their active participation in that parish.
All Families not meeting the criteria outlined above will be required to pay the non-parishioner tuition rate per student, if they wish for their children to attend St. Jude School. Also, not meeting the criteria for subsidized parishioner tuition rates could change a family’s enrollment priority. This information will be evaluated on an annual basis.
(School Commission approved 05-11-04)
(Parish Council approved 05-20-04)