Leadership

The Parish Engagement Council helps parishioners use their unique God-given talents to the benefit of others, within our walls and beyond.  From welcoming new members, to helping connect parishioners with the multitude of ministry opportunities available, to celebrating our successes, the Engagement Council strives to assist all who seek to love, to serve and to be hope.

We are always looking for new faces with fresh perspectives to join our small but active and energetic team.  We assist all STB ministries by building systems and creating tools to connect people and their gifts with ministry opportunities.

Check out the video describing our work:

If you are interested in joining our group or would like to learn more, please fill out the form below and we'd love to talk to you!

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The Fun and Fellowship Council strives to reinforce our Mission Statement's focus on creating a welcoming Catholic community for all who enter through our doors. We provide opportunities for all to feel personally welcome to participate in parish social events and maintenance activities that keep our building and grounds a beautiful and peaceful place to worship. 

We sponsor many annual events to keep the community alive and active and to help foster relationships between all members of the church family.  We also host a number of monthly activities to support seasonal celebrations or annual traditions.

Some of our annual events:

• Fall Festival

• Adult Christmas Party

• Cana Dinner

• March Mini-Golf Madness

• Easter Egg Hunt

• Mother’s Day Flower Planting

• Best Ball Golf Tournament

• Breakfast with St. Nicholas

The Fun and Fellowship Council also organizes activities and functions to keep our worship space and grounds maintained, including indoor plant care, seasonal exterior ground maintenace and lawn care. 

If you are interested in joining our group or would like to learn more, please fill out the form below and we'd love to talk to you!

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FUN & FELLOWSHIP

The Faith in Action Council explores real ways our parish community members and our local Community can make a difference in Dakota County, Minnesota, the US, or the World. We make an extra effort to address structural injustices; but we do not shy away from forms of local outreach that address the immediate needs of food, shelter, or clothing.

Under this over-arching scope, we support the following:

• Easter Baskets and Christmas Sharing Tree,
• Numerous areas of ever-expanding Prison Ministry,
• Spirit of Justice Committee endeavors, including Justice Advocacy and JustFaith Ministry modules,
• Support for those facing immigration problems, including providing financial help to Casa Guadalupana and those in border ministries,
• Support and involvement with MICAH and other efforts to promote affordable housing,
• Educating and promoting programs addressing sustainability and climate change, using Pope Francis' Encyclical, "Laudato Si",
• Support for programs addressing hunger, including The Open Door and other food shelves, Feed My Starving Children, Matrix Housing Services and Catholic Charities Higher Ground (formerly Friends of Dorothy Day), and Bread for the World Offering of Letters.

The Worship Council aids the parish community in liturgies that create prayerful experiences as we come together:

• to hear God's word proclaimed, made relevant for us in the homily and 
• to share the body and blood of Christ in Eucharist, in order that we may share the life of Christ with others.

Recent Projects:

• Completed a sound survey to assess our ability to provide good sound quality in our in-person and online Masses
• Sponsored in-person & online reflections on the readings 
• Began a detailed review of our ministries, especially the ministry of greeters

We look forward to implementing ways to bring the parish back to worship in our beautiful worship space during the time of COVID-19 and to provide enriching experiences for those times when we cannot gather as a full church in our space.

If you are interested in joining our group or would like to learn more, please fill out the form below and we'd love to talk to you!
 

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The Caring Council prayerfully extends the love of Christ in service to all people of the St. Thomas Becket family, and to our larger community as well. We provide physical, spiritual, and emotional support to meet individual needs.

Some of the ministries under the Caring Council include:

• Anointing of the Sick Service
• Communion to the Homebound
• Funeral Ministry
• Growing Through Loss
• Mass of Remembrance
• Prayer Line
• Prayer Shawl
• Red Cross Blood Drive
• Senior Living Ministry
• Sunshine Sender Caring Council
• Caring Council

One of our biggest accomplishments in 2020 was reaching out to all parishioners over 75 years old during the COVID-19 pandemic to ensure all parishioners had support and to identify needs, ie. food deliveries, prayer requests, etc.

A goal for the upcoming year is to create a new ministry to reach out to potentially isolated individuals and explore the feasibility of a Health Ministry.

If you are interested in joining our group or would like to learn more, please fill out the form below and we'd love to talk to you!
 

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Council Vision:
We, the Catholic Community of St. Thomas Becket, believe that God is found in everyday life, and that faith and life are inseparable. We aspire to nurture people at all Life Stages, support the development of the whole person and foster a call to prayer and Christian service. In addition to faith-centered, classroom learning, we will create innovative opportunities for online learning, mentoring, outreach and the discovery of each person’s God given gifts.

Our Life Stages:

• Early Childhood
• School Age
• Adolescence/Teens
• Young Adult
• Adulthood
• Middle Age
• Mature Adult

A Life Stages Spirituality council member would be asked to:

• Provide insight into the challenges and needs of a particular life stage – communicate what’s needed
• Provide feedback and direction into the types, times, frequency & platform of programming appealing to a particular life stage – communicate the best way to fulfill needs
• Assist prioritization of needs and interests across all life stages – help juggle the needs of all

Our Invitation:
We are looking for men, women and teens who can represent the needs of their life stage on our quest to become the people God created us to be.

If you are interested in joining our group or would like to learn more, please fill our the form below and we'd love to talk to you!

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Welcome STB Leaders! 
This gift-based webpage is designed for you.  Check back often for new options to learn and develop as a gift-based leader!

Who is a gift-based leader?  Gift-based leaders know that God blesses each person and faith communities with a diversity of unique gifts.  God-given gifts equip and empower each community to carry out their mission while reflecting the community’s values. 

Gift-based leaders value and appreciate individuals’ gifts.  Gift-based leaders want to learn about others’ gifts through gift-based conversations and invite people to develop and share their gifts in all aspects of life.

St. Thomas Becket (STB) gift-based leaders are STB parishioners and staff members who work toward further developing STB’s gift-based culture.

STB Webinar Series, Developing as a Gift-Based Leader
These webinars are for STB leaders who want to further develop as gift-based leaders. 

• Each 30-minute webinar Zoom session includes a 10-minute education piece, followed by 20 minutes of large and/or small group conversation with other STB leaders.
• Attending all the Zoom sessions is not required.  Leaders can choose the Zoom sessions that are of interest to them.
• Zoom sessions will be offered periodically from January through May 2023.  Upcoming dates and topics will be posted below. 
• The Zoom sessions are designed for STB leaders who have had an initial Living Your Talents and Strengths (LYTS) foundation.

 Next webinar topic and date/time coming soon.