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The Parish has just concluded our annual welcoming of Families Moving Forward.  For decades families in the parish have come together to welcome homeless families into our space.

We will be holding a parish team formation meeting on Tuesday evening, August 20, at 7:00 p.m. in St. Joseph Hall. 

Faith Formation Registrations for ages 3-high school are live online! Faith Formation sessions for all ages begin mid-September and continue through April 2020.

Commitment to Parish Life is a commitment that parish makes to you to provide support in times of joy and need, to offer quality ministries, a vibrant liturgy, and the opportunity to deepen your faith relationship with Jesus Christ.

Once again the people from St. Joseph the Worker were active in building the Habitat for Humanity house in Minneapolis. The people from our parish have always taken this time of summer to work on creating a house for a family.

SUPPORTING THE ST. CATHERINE CHURCH BUILDING FUND – St. Catherine’s Church in Bouzy, Haiti stood through earthquake and hurricanes as a sign of God’s enduring Love... Now it has collapsed. Help us rebuild their simple church and restore Hope for Bouzy, Haiti!

The bloodmobile with be at SJTW on Sunday, August 11 from 7:30AM - 12:00PM. The need for blood is great! Please consider making a donation.

You are always invited to come and spend a Wednesday morning with this group.  Faith Sharing for All Seasons meets Wednesdays from 9:30-11:00 a.m. in Room 2.

The group will read Living Your Discipleship: 7 Ways to Express Your Deepest Calling--A Practical Guide to Following Christ in Daily by Kathleen A. Cahalan & Laura Kelly Fanucci

Gather at 5:30 pm for a light supper Bus departs at 6:00 pm. Ends at 8:00 pm Tour leaves from Hopebridge Community Center 4217 Boone Ave, New Hope.

The Acts: The Spread of the Kingdom study program traces how the Gospel witness spread outward in waves from Jerusalem and reveals how the seeds of Church structure and authority took root.

This series will focus on St. Augustine and St. Benedict, two important leaders in our Christian/Catholic faith through the DVD series by Bishop Robert Barron.

From his early years as a boy in small-town Poland to his ascent through the church hierarchy, this presentation seeks to unpack why many refer to now Saint Pope John Paul II (1920-2005) as the “man of the century.”

Over the past few months in this space I have written about money.  I don’t want you to think that is all that matters.  This morning I had the opportunity to celebrate Mass with some of our high school youth who are participating in Christ Power.  It was so encouraging to see so many of the faces of our youth who regularly participate at Sunday Masses.

A huge THANK-YOU to all who donated to our Projector Fund. We have REACHED OUR GOAL amount. Without your generosity, it simply would not have been possible.

First, a big thank you to those who gave to replace the projectors.  You may have seen the screens.  Although they are larger than the old ones, there will also be more music per line.  The new projectors will be laser rather than bulb orientated.  Thus they should be brighter and more easily seen and read.  Without the generous donors who gave we would have had to dip into savings once again.

With the departure of Roxanne Smith as head of our Social Justice programs the parish conducted a pretty expansive search to find someone who was willing and able to step into her shoes. We found a great young man (he is young enough to be my grandson!), Alex Blechle. Alex was from Missouri and is a recent graduate from St. John’s University near St. Cloud.

There was a news story the other day about how being connected to our exercise apps may not be good all the time.  We set goals for ourselves, which is good.  But we check our apps all the time.

Roxanne Smith is retiring after more than 30 years of work for the parish in our social justice department. She began shortly after the parish began to do some of the work in this field.

During the coming fiscal year there are a number of maintenance projects that we are looking into having completed within the next 12 months. They include repairing broken and dangerous concrete, two of our air conditioning units have reached the end of their life expectancy and repair, the new projectors for the worship space and maintenance of windows in the building as well as in the church.