Last updated:  1/12/2025

TABLE OF CONTENTS

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

❤️ Don't forget to invite your friends and family to our events!!!  ❤️

All grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, next door neighbors, friends, etc are welcome!!!

Monthly Fellowship Meetings 

Ministry meetings are the second Sunday of the month unless otherwise noted 

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. 

Your family will receive 10 bonus participation points if you are a chair person! 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.

NEW FAMILIES 

If you are new to Friends & Family, please click here to check out our New Family page! 

SIGN UP FOR ANNOUNCEMENTS 

Click this link to join us on WhatsApp - https://chat.whatsapp.com/BSRxh99ty5QBqiTKf3PFK3 

Game Night with the Priests 2024

Check out photos from our last events! 

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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!

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.