The St. Joseph Parish Pastoral Council serves the parish in an advisory capacity to provide leadership, direction and vision with the Pastor in carrying out the parish mission.  This is achieved through a visioning and planning process that is operated under the Constitution of the Parish Pastoral Council   The council  then organizes the groups, activities and missions of the parish into areas called Commissions.  There are six Commissions:

Parish Pastoral Council
Liturgy
Faith Formation
  Justice and Charity
Community Life
Pastoral Care
Finance and Development

The Parish Council has adopted the following Strategic Objectives in an effort to guide our parish community (and the work of the Commissions) through the year 2007.

STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES

1. We will define and build a culture of stewardship within

    our parish community.

2. Each group/ministry will strive to discover and share together
    the movement of God in their ministry.

3. We will increase parish Mass attendance.

4. We will increase our understanding and participation in the
    social mission of the church.

5. We will build upon our financial base - providing for the needs
    of the church and its ministries.

6. We will identify and implement processes enabling us to reach
    out and connect with each household of the parish.

7. We will promote and participate in the Small Group
    Evangelization initiative as required by the Archdiocese.