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Finance Committee If you have
some business/financial skill or experience, this might be a way to use your talent for the parish. This
committee meets five or six times a year.
Just Faith Just Faith is a thirty-week course of study that provides faith formation processes
and resources emphasizing the Gospel message of peace and justice, Catholic social teaching and the intersection of spirituality
and action. The aim of Just Faith is to enable people of faith to develop a passion for justice and to express this passion
in concrete acts of social ministry. The program is conducted annually, if there is sufficient parish interest.
Parish Pastoral Council
With the pastor, the parish pastoral council
is responsible for long-range pastoral planning affecting the whole of parish life, supported by parish staff and finance
council members. Members of the council are called forth from the parish community by a selection process.
Length of service is three years. If you are interested in serving on the council, please contact
the pastor. Pastoral
Planning Team
These parish volunteers represent the Immaculate
Conception community in the continuing explorations on diocesan levels as to the future configuration of the catholic parishes
in Easthampton, due to future financial potentials and priest shortages. Will three parishes share two pastors/priests? Will
they be yoked? Will they merge? Which parish plant(s) will remain intact? Will we sell and build? All of these will be entertained
from the vantage point of 10-20 years.
Peru Mission
This committee is dedicated
to the continued involvement of our parishioners with the parish life of San Martin de la Caridad Parish in Lima, Peru. Meetings
take place on the first Sunday of the month following the 8:30 AM Mass. All members of the parish are invited
to join.
As a parish
we are dedicated to the spiritual as well as the financial well being of our brothers and sisters in Lima. A
monthly envelope is placed in our packet and monies are deposited in a special account. Three or four times
a year a check is sent to Lima.
Initially, our financial support was used to establish a fund as start-up money for people beginning a small business. That
proved successful for several years, and then, the parishioners of our parish in Peru met with their pastor to request that
our money be used to build a “real” church in which to worship. They were worshipping in a small
roughly built hall, which was used for multiple purposes.
When the church is complete we will help finance a soup kitchen and other needs as they arise. The poverty
in much of Peru is unthinkable. Unemployment is at 70% within our sister parish boundaries.
More about Peru Mission
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