Ministry of Care

St. Timothy’s Parish hopes to be family to you. We are your church family and family cares for each other. Often times, the family of St. Timothy parish cannot help because we do not know about the particular need of a parishioner. 

You are the neighbor or friend that knows what is happening to someone or some family. Please let us know of any way the parish can be of service. We are asking for you to be aware of others and possibly the hurt they are experiencing. “Where two or more are gathered in my name, I am there.” So we as a parish will gather in prayer and service to one another.

There are numerous programs of service available from different ministries. This listing of services is to let you know the ways that the parish family can care for one another. Please contact the parish office (384–1100) if you have any needs or would like to become involved in a ministry.

• Helping Hands Ministry
  This assistance ministry will help to meet the needs of parishioners (young, old, single, married or a family) who find themselves in a predicament that may require a helping hand, or parishioners who are lonely looking for a listening ear. The need might come up as the result of an unexpected change such as a sudden illness, recovery from surgery or the loss of a loved one. Such needs might be help with transportation to church or a church function, to the doctor or hospital, home visits,  meals, cleaning or babysitting.
   

• Elizabeth Ministry
  This ministry is women helping other women during times of pregnancy, birth, adoption or infant crisis. It also provides support to those who are suffering the pain of miscarriage, infertility or failed adoption.  (more info...)
   

• Prayer Blanket Ministry
  This ministry involves sewing lap-size blankets and praying for parishioners who are in the hospital, homebound or seriously ill. All blankets are blessed and then given to those in need. Each person who receives the blanket is lifted up in prayer and the blanket becomes a tangible symbol of the love and support of the church community.
   

• Ministers Attending to the Sick or Homebound (MASH)
  This ministry provides home visits to parishioners ill or homebound. Volunteers visit, pray for the person, and present a parish prayer blanket which represents the love and support of our faith community during times of illness or distress. Visits may be short-term or long-term in nature.
   

• Hospital Visits and Communion Visits to the Homebound
  We would be happy to pray for you and visit you at the hospital if you let us know. The hospitals are restricted in giving info with the new privacy regulations, so we count on you to let us know.
   

• Sacrament of the Sick
  This is a sacrament of healing graces. If anyone is sick, having surgery, is seriously ill or has a need for an emotional or spiritual healing, this sacrament is available.
   

• Bereavement 
  This ministry's mission is to guide families in the planning of funeral liturgies and receptions at the parish. Reception food is provided through the Helping Hands Ministry. Several members are present to assist as needed at the funeral. If the funeral is held elsewhere, parish families are contacted by phone or home visit so that support from the St. Timothy parish family is expressed.  If you know of a death in someone’s family, please let the parish know, so the family can be visited and know of the parish’s prayer and support. 
   

• New Day 
  This ministry is a nine week program designed to help someone dealing with a loss of a loved one through death. Each week deals with another aspect of grief and goes through the “tasks” of grief.  (more info...)