Friends and Family Ministry
Last updated: 7/20/24
MINISTRY UPDATES
New participation point sheet is ready - please take a look! Click here
Next meeting - August 11th after 9:30am mass - We're going to try a fellowship on the lawn type of meeting with refreshments and games.
Next event - August 30th at 6:10pm Welcome Back Baseball Bash at Met's Stadium in St. Lucie West - tickets are $10 each - We are waiting on more info from PTO
TABLE OF CONTENTS
MISSION STATEMENT
To provide opportunities for St. Anastasia parishioners, visitors, families and friends to encounter and deepen their ongoing relationship with Christ and Catholic traditions.
The St. Anastasia Friends & Family ministry provides special fellowship opportunities for families to get to know one another, have a safe place for our children to celebrate special religious holidays and traditions, and helps us grow in our relationship with Christ by centering all activities around our faith. The Friends & Family ministry seeks to create memorable and meaningful events that are faith-based for children to enjoy and learn from. Each month we offer a fellowship opportunity typically after mass. We hope you join our ministry and our fellowship events!
FOCUS STATEMENT
To support and encourage families in their faith walk, by incorporating spirituality, theology and prayer with fun while highlighting the beauty and truth of God, family and church traditions in each event celebrated by the ministry.
NEW FAMILIES
If you are new to Friends & Family, please click here to check out our New Family page!
SIGN UP FOR ANNOUNCEMENTS ON WHATSAPP
Please join us on WhatsApp!
Join both links below:
Announcements link - https://chat.whatsapp.com/BSRxh99ty5QBqiTKf3PFK3
Group chat - https://chat.whatsapp.com/BSRxh99ty5QBqiTKf3PFK3
PARTICIPATION POINTS
Ministry Leaders of St. Anastasia are responsible for providing the church with updates on which families are participating in the ministry. In order to help these efforts, the Friends and Family ministry has established a participation point system. Click here for more details
MONTHLY MEETINGS
Please join us every second Sunday of the month unless otherwise noted
Click this SignUpGenius link to sign up and receive a reminder 2 days before.
PAST MEETING AGENDAS
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
** NOTE**
Our Welcome Back Party has been cancelled for 2024. The church/school would like us to help out with the Back to School Baseball Bash instead
Welcome Back Baseball Bash - Friday, August 30th at 6:10pm at the Mets Stadium in St. Lucie West - Tickets are $10 each
Feast Day Ticket Sales - Saturday, October 5th & Sunday, October 6th, 2024 at the church gazebo
Truck or Treat at Feast Day - Saturday, October 19th, 2024 at the school pavilion
Game Night at the Rectory - tentative Saturday, November 9th after 4:00pm mass
Kids Bible Study Craft Day - TBD (February 2025)
Easter Celebration - TBD
Fellowship on the Lawn - TBD (June 2025)
EVENT CHAIRPERSON
Your family will receive 10 bonus participation points!
SignUp here or contact Melinda Gwilt for more details
For each event, we ask for several families to join together to assist with an event of their choice per year. This is not required, but super helpful for the success of our ministry. Each family will work with the Ministry Leaders and Evangelism Leader with coordinating and development of the event. And each family is expected to preside at the event meetings, give other ministry families opportunity to assist, and serve as the spokesperson by communicating the event needs to the Ministry Leaders. This chairperson can be a mom, dad, both mom & dad, grandma, whomever! The "family" will receive 10 bonus participation points for their event assistance. A family can only receive the 10 bonus points one time a calendar year.
Past Events
Game Night with the Priests
Check out photos from our last events!
Mom's & Mimosas
5/20/23
Easter Celebration
3/25/23
Bible study craft night
9/27/22
coffee connection after Red, White, and Blue mass
9/11/22
Feast Day Ticket Sales and Refreshments
10/2/22
Helpful Tools
2024 MINISTRY LEADERSHIP
Ministry Leader - Melinda Gwilt
Co-Ministry Leaders - Tammy Wickard, Ja’net Vercillo, Nicole Friedrich, and Seth Doerr
As leaders of our ministry, we are liasons between the church priests, church administrators, and the ministry families. They help ensure our ministry families have a positive experience at our church and with our ministry by creating a warm and welcoming culture of faith. They help families gather together by scheduling events, securing venues, communicating with our minisry, and assisting with communication to our entire church congregation to invite them to join our fellowship events.
Welcome Leader - Julie Gillispie
As a Welcome Leader, Julie assists the Ministry Leaders to help grow our ministry. She has done a wonderful job at contacting new families who are interested in joining and meeting them at our events.
Evangelism Leader - Jennelly Smith
This is a new role and we are thankful for Jennelly volunteering as our Evangelism Leader. She will be helping to incorporate prayer, lessons from the Bible, engaging with other families, and engaging with our priests to enhance our fellowship events. If anyone is interested in assisting Jennelly, please let us know!
If you are interested in being part of our Leadership team, please join us in our Leadership group chat on WhatsApp by clicking here!