Pastoral Care Committee

The Pastoral Care Coordination Committee (PCCC) was established in 1997 as a result of the Task Force for the Diocesan Millennium Study. The purpose of the Committee is to address and coordinate the ministry of pastoral care as it relates to healthcare in the parishes of the diocese.

"Pastoral Care entails providing support to meet spiritual, social and emotional needs for parishioners and those within the parish boundaries seeking assistance and support of a faith community. Pastoral Care Coordinators work collaboratively with their pastors to responsibly care for parishioners."
_{-Cathy J. Weidmaier, October 2008}

PCCC Members:
Rev. Terry Bruce
Peggy Ekerdt
Ginny Feeney
Ginger Geeding
Brother Dale Mooney, FSC
Rev. Msgr. Brad Offutt
Kathy Powers
Sr. Gabrielle Smits, CSJ
Rev. Robert H. Stewart
Cathy J. Weidmaier, Chair
~Members of the Committee are volunteers, the Committee is responsible to the Bishop.

Key activities of the Committee include:

Develop standards for pastoral care ministry.
Develop and/or identify an educational program for periodic training of new coordinators of pastoral care in the parishes.
Plan for periodic diocesan continuing education for pastoral care ministers in the parishes.
Identify issues of concern for the parishes who are responsible for Catholic pastoral care ministry in the healthcare facilities within their parish boundaries.
Collaborate with the Office of Worship for formation days for Special Extraordinary Ministers to the Sick and Homebound from parishes
throughout the Diocese.

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