PASTORAL COUNCIL

My wife Barb and I have been parishioners since 1985. I have served on the OCIA Leadership Team since 2008 and became a 3rd Degree member of Knights of Columbus Council 4970 in 2018. In 2021, I took on the role of Adult Confirmation Coordinator. I served as Pastoral Council member and Deanery Representative from 2022 to 2024, and in 2024, I became the Pastoral Council Chair.

My family and I joined St. Ignatius Parish in 2017 when we enrolled my oldest son in the Parish school. Because of my own Jesuit education, I have tried to demonstrate the virtue of being men and women for others by joining our St. Vincent de Paul ministry in 2022 and serving the least of our brothers and sisters.

I joined the Parish in 2001 and since then have assumed various roles- both as volunteer and as parish staff.  2001-current: EM and lector; 2020-2022: Parish Pastoral Council President; 2021: Founding member of St. Vincent de Paul; 2022-2024: Advancement Director for Capital Campaign Phase 2; 2023: SI Fil-Am Leadership Committee; 2025: Initiated the Social Justice Ministry

I have been a St Ignatius parishioner since young, when our family moved here from Chicago. I served as chairperson to facilitate Listening and Learning sessions after the release of the report on Catholic Church sex abuse. I am one of the Parish team members for the Coalition for Racial Equity. I am one of the wedding coordinators.

It’s been an honor to serve on the Parish Council.

My family and I have been parishioners since 1988. I am presently a hospitality minister at 9:30 Sunday mass, and have been a member of the pastoral council, the Social Community, and our school board (CSAC). My three children are proud graduates of St. Ignatius School.

I joined the parish in 2020 when I was hired to direct Mission and Outreach and Young Adult Ministries at St. Ignatius. Currently, I serve as a Eucharistic Minister at the 5:30 pm Sunday Mass and volunteer every year with the Feed-a-Family Christmas and Easter food drives.

Cheryl has been a parishioner at St. Ignatius since 2017. She worked at the Diocesan Pastoral Center for 32 years, including ten years as Moderator of the Tribunal Chancery. She is on the Mental Health Ministry team and serves as a lector and Eucharistic minister.

I have been a part of St. Ignatius even before I was born, as my grandparents were one of the original “Barn Families.” I’m a second-generation SI Tiger, graduating in 2001, with my father in the class of 1966 and my son, Wilder, set to graduate in 2033. This is my third year as the 7th-grade teacher at SI. I became a lector and Eucharistic Minister. I am very excited to join the Pastoral Council.

I transferred to St. Ignatius Loyola parish in the late summer of 2016, following the closing of the Newman Center - Sacramento to non-student participants.  Several of us from Newman Center transferred to SI and we brought with us our Loaves and Fishes (L&F) ministry which has been in existence for over 30+ years.  I am the current Coordinator of the L&F ministry and I joined the Parish Council in late 2021.