Mission/Activities: To prepare parents and godparents for the baptism of their children up to the age of six. Volunteers are needed to sew baptismal garments, help coordinate semi-annual potluck suppers for the families of newly baptized and to assist with Baptism Preparation classes

Contact Alice Curran or Michele Salcedo if you are interested in helping with this ministry.

Mission/Activities: To provide comfort and healing to those who have lost loved ones. A monthly coffee , information and discussion are available. Volunteers can facilitate sessions or provide hospitality for the gatherings. Training is provided.

Contact Alice Curran or Michele Salcedo if you are interested in helping with this ministry.

Mission/Activities: To reach out as a community of faith to those who cannot come to church or parish activities because they are homebound or in the hospital. Misiters of care provide a compassionate presence with the homebound through regular visitation. Hospital volunteers visit parishioners who are hospitalized.

Contact Alice Curran or Michele Salcedo if you are interested in helping with this ministry.

Mission/Activities: To provide Quality childcare in a safe, loving Christian environment. Volunteer opportunities include: Parent volunteer co-op, Children’s advisory board, nursery during weekend masses, nursery during Holy Days and services, St. Andrew weddings, Parent and Tots play group, and Parents night out. Training is provided.

Contact Alice Curran or Michele Salcedo if you are interested in helping with this ministry.

To provide safe formation and basic learning skills for children 18 months to 14 years of age on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9:30AM to 2:30PM. Volunteers provide special programs in language, art, music, etc.

Contact Alice Curran or Michele Salcedo if you are interested in helping with this ministry.

Mission/Activities: The team extends and facilitates an open door invitation to inactive Catholics that provides a safe, accepting environment where a new journey can begin toward a fulfilling relationship with God and the Catholic community.

Contact Alice Curran or Michele Salcedo if you are interested in helping with this ministry.

Mission/Activities: To be a healing presence to families who have lost a child due to miscarriage, stillbirth, or abortion. Volunteers plan the annual memorial service for unborn children. Provide prayerful support to families within our prayer chain. Make appropriate contacts with grieving families following the loss of their babies.

Contact Alice Curran or Michele Salcedo if you are interested in helping with this ministry.

Mission/Activities: To provide an opportunity for parishioners to study and be formed by the justice tradition articulated by the Scriptures, the Church’s historical witness and Catholic social teaching. The goal is to empower parishioners to develop a thirst for justice and to express their passion through concrete acts of parish social ministry. Meet for readings, videos, lectures, discussion, prayers, retreats and hands-on experiences in justice education. Service opportunities are available.

Contact Alice Curran or Michele Salcedo if you are interested in helping with this ministry.

Mission/Activities: Meet weekly on Sunday for coffee and refreshments, opening prayer, scripture reading, group discussion, lecture (tape) and closing prayer. Facilitators for small groups are needed.

Contact Alice Curran or Michele Salcedo if you are interested in helping with this ministry.

Mission/Activities: The Mother Daughter program explores God’s special gift of human life and fertility and the beauty and wonder of God’s plan for growing up and becoming a woman. Team members coordinate the tea.

Contact Alice Curran or Michele Salcedo if you are interested in helping with this ministry.

Mission/Activities: To encourage outreach to incarcerated persons. Strive to meet the scriptural needs of prisoners and provide access to the sacraments. The ministry provides pastoral outreach to families of victims and families of those who are incarcerated.

Contact Alice Curran or Michele Salcedo if you are interested in helping with this ministry.

Mission/Activities: To provide a process each year from January to Pentecost for those people interested in becoming Catholic. Volunteer opportunities include sponsoring an RCIA candidate, Hospitality Team Member and Prayer Support.

Contact Alice Curran or Michele Salcedo if you are interested in helping with this ministry.

Mission/Activities: Provides educational workshops and assistance for persons seeking a marriage annulment in the Church. Training is provided for advocates through the Diocesan Tribunal Office.

Contact Alice Curran or Michele Salcedo if you are interested in helping with this ministry.

Mission/Activities: This ministry for separated and divorced persons is designed to provide a safe Christian environment to promote healing, growth and hope for the future. Volunteers who have participated in divorce recovery form the team

Contact Alice Curran or Michele Salcedo if you are interested in helping with this ministry.

Mission/ Activities: Married couples meet with engaged couples and help in their preparation for marriage. Become a sponsor couple and help others have a good beginning to their marriage and strengthen yours in the process.

Contact Alice Curran or Michele Salcedo if you are interested in helping with this ministry.

Seeking couples interested in exploring and providing marriage enrichment opportunities in our parish. Assistance and resources in forming these ministries is available. This is an exciting challenge and opportunity for creative ministry in support of marriage and family.

Contact Alice Curran or Michele Salcedo if you are interested in helping with this ministry.

Good health includes physical, emotional and spiritual well being. The focus of this ministry includes all aspecys of physical health which will extend beyond the more traditional idea of health as the absence of illness. Health fairs, education and related programs are part of this ministry. Volunteers should be registered nurses or other healthcare workers.

Contact Alice Curran or Michele Salcedo if you are interested in helping with this ministry.

Mission/Activities: To assist the presider at weekend masses and other parish liturgies. Open to all youth grades six and up.

Contact Christina Alves or Cathi Staggs if you are interested in helping with this ministry.

Mission/Activities: Open to youth and adults who are willing and physically able to help decorate the church for Christmas and Easter.

Contact Christina Alves or Cathi Staggs if you are interested in helping with this ministry.

Mission/Activities: To prepare the sanctuary for baptisms, setting out the holy oils, water and linens needed by the presider.

Contact Christina Alves or Cathi Staggs if you are interested in helping with this ministry.

Mission/Activities: This ministry is co-ordinated through the Office of Ministries with Children and Youth and the Department of Liturgy. Those involved provide the Scriptures (Liturgy of the Word) for children in a separate room on an age appropriate level. Open to youth and adults.

Contact Christina Alves or Cathi Staggs if you are interested in helping with this ministry.

Mission/Activities: To interpret the Mass, religious education classes, etc. in sign language for those hearing impaired. To foster a greater sense of community for the hearing impaired. Open to those qualified to interpret for the hearing impaired who want to be part of a faith sharing group.

Contact Christina Alves or Cathi Staggs if you are interested in helping with this ministry.

Mission/Activities: To minister the Eucharist to the homebound and to the sick. Open to trained, commissioned Eucharistic Ministers.

Contact Christina Alves or Cathi Staggs if you are interested in helping with this ministry.

Mission/Activities: To minister the Eucharist at parish liturgies. Open to youth (8th grade and up) and adults.

Contact Christina Alves or Cathi Staggs if you are interested in helping with this ministry.

Mission/Activities: To provide a light lunch or reception following funerals for bereaved parishioners. Open to anyone willing to cook, buy food, serve or clean up.

Contact Christina Alves or Cathi Staggs if you are interested in helping with this ministry.

Mission/Activities: To provide Funeral Vigil Services the evening before a funeral. Those in this ministry are trained to lead this Scripture service or Scriptural Rosary and provide additional support to bereaved families.

Contact Christina Alves or Cathi Staggs if you are interested in helping with this ministry.

Mission/Activities: To assist in preparing the annual Guadalupe Mass in December, to be a part of a Hispanic choir, to help organize and encourage others to attend. This ministry also helps to identify and provide for the needs of the Hispanic Community.

Contact Christina Alves or Cathi Staggs if you are interested in helping with this ministry.

Mission/activity: To provide hospitality at various parish liturgies, including greeting parishioners and guests, assisting with the Sunday collection, second collections, seating, and distributing bulletins. Open to families and individuals (5th grade and up for youth).

Contact Christina Alves or Cathi Staggs if you are interested in helping with this ministry.

Mission/Activities: To proclaim the Scriptures and lead the Prayer of the Faithful at parish liturgies. Open to youth (6th grade and up) and adults. Training is provided.

Contact Christina Alves or Cathi Staggs if you are interested in helping with this ministry.

Mission/Activities: To help prepare families for the traditional 15th birthday celebration for females or males by assisting with preparation classes, rehearsal, and liturgy. Open to youth and adults. Parent/youth teams welcome.

Contact Christina Alves or Cathi Staggs if you are interested in helping with this ministry.

Mission/Activities: To assist the sacristan in cleaning, mending, washing, polishing liturgical hardware, providing assistance with funerals or special liturgies when the sacristan is unavailable. Open to youth and adults.

Contact Christina Alves or Cathi Staggs if you are interested in helping with this ministry.

Mission/Activities: To assist the priests, engaged couples and their families as wedding rehearsals and wedding liturgies. Communicate guidelines on church customs and parish practices. Open to youth and adults. Parent/youth teams welcome.

Contact Christina Alves or Cathi Staggs if you are interested in helping with this ministry.

Mission/Activities: To welcome newcomers and visitors to our parish and help with the Welcome Table during monthly breakfasts in the Parish Hall.

Contact Christina Alves or Cathi Staggs if you are interested in helping with this ministry.

Mission/Activities: Join in a circle of prayer from your own home. As requests for prayers from fellow parishioners are received, volunteers call one person in a chain to join in a daily petition for those intentions.

Contact Christina Alves or Cathi Staggs if you are interested in helping with this ministry.

Mission/Activities: To minister to the assembly and enhance the liturgy through handbell music. Open to young adults and adults who read music.

Contact Christina Alves or Cathi Staggs if you are interested in helping with this ministry.

Mission/Activities: To serve the assembly as psalmist and song leader. They foster a greater sense of participation by the assembly through music. Vocal ability and augition required. Open to youth and adults.

Contact Christina Alves or Cathi Staggs if you are interested in helping with this ministry.

Mission/Activities: To lead the assembly in worship through music in a contemporary style. Open to youth and adults. Vocalists, guitarist, percussionists and other instrumentalists welcome.

Contact Christina Alves or Cathi Staggs if you are interested in helping with this ministry.

Mission/Activities: To lead the assembly in worship through music. Participation enables our children to praise God through music while learning basic principles of singing. Open to those in Grades K - 4.

Contact Christina Alves or Cathi Staggs if you are interested in helping with this ministry.

Mission/Activities: To lead the assembly in worship through music in a contemporary style. Open to youth and adults. Vocalists, guitarist, percussionists and other instrumentalists welcome.

Contact Christina Alves or Cathi Staggs if you are interested in helping with this ministry.

Mission/Activities: To minister to the assembly through music at Mass. They enhance the liturgy with traditional sacred choral repetoire. Open to individuals who are high school aged and older.

Contact Christina Alves or Cathi Staggs if you are interested in helping with this ministry.

Mission/Activities: To minister to the assembly through handbells. To help our youth praise God through music. Open to those in grades 5 through 8.

Contact Christina Alves or Cathi Staggs if you are interested in helping with this ministry.

Mission/Activities: Works with the Director to plan and implement Children’s and Youth Ministry in the parish by providing vision, goals and direction.

Contact Nancy Ristuccia or Michelle Vasquez if you are interested in helping with this ministry.

Mission/Activities: Elementary, middle school and high school youth meet with the Director once a month in planning and implementing Children and Youth Ministry at St. Andrew.

Contact Nancy Ristuccia or Michelle Vasquez if you are interested in helping with this ministry.

Mission/Activities: To help catechized children who have had age appropriate religious education, prepare for, celebrate and fully participate in the Sunday Eucharist through celebration of Holy Communion. Opportunities include: Sacramental Preparation Coordinator, Facilitator, Hospitality and First Holy Communion Mass Captain.

Contact Nancy Ristuccia or Michelle Vasquez if you are interested in helping with this ministry.

Mission/Activities: To help catechized children prepare for and celebrate First Reconciliation. Opportunities include: Sacramental Preparation Coordinator, Facilitator and Hospitality.

Contact Nancy Ristuccia or Michelle Vasquez if you are interested in helping with this ministry.

Mission/Activities: To have an understanding of what the sacrament of Confrmation is and to awaken the presence of the Holy Spirit in the lives of the candidates. Candidates also participate in Community service. Open to youth at least 15 years of age who have received the sacraments of Baptism and Eucharist. Volunteer opportunities include confirmed peer minister and adult leaders.

Contact Nancy Ristuccia or Michelle Vasquez if you are interested in helping with this ministry.

Mission/Activities: This ministry is in conjunction with RCIA and the office of Adult Formation. The rite is for children and youth ages 7 to 18 who are not baptized or have been raised in a different Christian denomination or who have had no formal religious education. Opportunities include: RCIA Adapted for Children Team, Coordinators of RCIA Adapted for Children, Sponsors and Peer Sponsors.

Contact Nancy Ristuccia or Michelle Vasquez if you are interested in helping with this ministry.

Mission/Activities: To provide a listening, caring environment for children as they face the process of divorce in their family while parents participate in the Adult Formation Rebuilding program.

Contact Nancy Ristuccia or Michelle Vasquez if you are interested in helping with this ministry.

Mission/Activities: To provide lectionary-based Religious Education programs for children preschool through Grade 5. Opportunities include: Catechist, Aide, Service Project Coordinator, Liturgy of the Word with Children Coordinator, Music Ministry, Hospitality Coordinator, Materials Coordinator, Supply Coordinator and Puppet Ministry.

Contact Nancy Ristuccia or Michelle Vasquez if you are interested in helping with this ministry.

Mission/Activities: To help adolescents develop a deeper relationship with Jesus Christ and the Christian community, and increase their knowledge of the core content of the Catholic faith. Religious Educatiuon classes are currently offered for grades 6 through 12. Sessions are staffed by adult and high school youth colunteer co-catechists. Training and curriculum are provided.

Contact Nancy Ristuccia or Michelle Vasquez if you are interested in helping with this ministry.

Mission/Activities: To offer a unique faith experience in a relaxed atmosphere for prayer, Bible story telling, play, music, crafts, and snacks. Opportunities include: Coordination Team, Snack Team, Storytelling Team, Games Team, Music, Chapel Team, Craft Team, Camp Counselor and Aide.

Contact Nancy Ristuccia or Michelle Vasquez if you are interested in helping with this ministry.

Mission/Activities: To give all high school youth an opportunity for fellowship, worship and exploration of their Catholic faith in a casual atmosphere through various means including music, slits, games, video and speakers. Volunteers include college students and young adults who lead and facilitate weekly sessions.

Contact Nancy Ristuccia or Michelle Vasquez if you are interested in helping with this ministry.

Mission/Activities: To provide assistance in the school and office. Volunteers are needed to help copy, collate materials, stuff envelopes for bulk mailings and other tasks.

Contact Janet Camarillo if you are interested in helping with this ministry.

Mission/Activities: To provide safety for our school children when crossing the street in front of the school and enable smooth, orderly traffic flow. Work the crosswalk in front of the school in the mornings or afternoons.

Contact Janet Camarillo if you are interested in helping with this ministry.

Mission/Activities: The Judi K. Skinner 5K Run is held each September in memory of Judi K. Skinner, SAS parent and founder of the SAS Spirit Club. The run is open to all and includes a 1 mile Fun Run. Volunteers are needed for sign in, water stations along the course, finish line and set-up as well as clean-up.

Contact Janet Camarillo if you are interested in helping with this ministry.

Mission/Activities: Help re-file books, label and file new books, and other general assistance.

Contact Janet Camarillo if you are interested in helping with this ministry.

Mission/Activities: Substitute teachers are needed for all subjects.

Contact Janet Camarillo if you are interested in helping with this ministry.

Mission/Activities: Tutors are needed for all subjects. Enrich your life and the lives of students.

Contact Janet Camarillo if you are interested in helping with this ministry.

Volunteers who will serve in an advisory capacity to the Director, for a period of two years.

Contact Patty Watson if you are interested in helping with this ministry.

Volunteer opportunities include: sacking groceries, interviewing, picking up bulk pantry items, picking up furniture and appliances, stocking shelves, bagging rice & beans, etc. We especially need people who can do heavy lifting (minimum of 50 lbs.), and bilingual (English-Spanish) speaking volunteers.

Contact Patty Watson if you are interested in helping with this ministry.

Volunteers to answer the phone, do computer work, make copies, etc.

Contact Patty Watson if you are interested in helping with this ministry.

Volunteers to do ministry development, coordinate fund raising efforts, and coordinator of all volunteers involved with Social Ministry.

Contact Patty Watson if you are interested in helping with this ministry.

Volunteer opportunities include: solicitors from local merchants, big dollar donors, sponsors, etc., Chair and Co-chair persons, volunteers to set-up and clean-up, volunteers for Casino Night to serve drinks, food, take money, sell raffle tickets, etc., and volunteers to work in the nursery.

Contact Patty Watson if you are interested in helping with this ministry.

Mission/Activities: To provide welcoming and organized meeting space for all our ministry work. Volunteer Opportunities include: setting up and taking down tables and chairs, preparing tea and coffee, setting out paper products and clean up. This is an ideal stewardship opportunity for families.

Contact Carol Peninger or Gloria Salgado if you are interested in helping with this ministry.

Mission/Activities: To provide a clean and healthy environment for our parishioners and visitors. Volunteer opportunities include: deep cleaning of the Parish Hall kitchen, the Community Center, the Pastoral Center and the Church.

Contact Carol Peninger or Gloria Salgado if you are interested in helping with this ministry.

Mission/Activities: To assist St. Andrew ministries in production of various publications of general interest in a variety of forms. Volunteers can expect to help layout/produce and distribute anything from pamphlets to promotional projects. Help design logos, and graphics, as well as prepare art boards and other materials.

Contact Carol Peninger or Gloria Salgado if you are interested in helping with this ministry.

Mission/Activities: Set-up, layout, update and maintain the St. Andrew and St. Andrew School websites.

Contact Carol Peninger or Gloria Salgado if you are interested in helping with this ministry.

Mission/Activities: To provide assistance in the parish front office. Volunteer opportunities include: answering the phone, organizing information and promoting a welcoming atmosphere for visitors.

Contact Carol Peninger or Gloria Salgado if you are interested in helping with this ministry.

Mission/Activities: The parish picnic provides a fun and enjoyable lunch with outdoor activities for children. Volunteer opportunities include: helping to plan and organize the picnic, working shifts at food and drink stands, helping to coordinate and organize activities for children, assisting with set-up, clean-up and more...

Contact Carol Peninger or Gloria Salgado if you are interested in helping with this ministry.

Mission/Activities: To provide assistance in maintaining St. Andrew Parish buildings and grounds. Volunteers are needed to help in the following areas: Carpentry/Construction, Cleaning, Plumbing, Electrical, Landscaping/Grounds Maintenance, Painting and Running Cable.

Contact Carol Peninger or Gloria Salgado if you are interested in helping with this ministry.

Mission/Activities: To assess and prioritize the repair and maintenance needs for the St. Andrew Buildings (church and school). The committee meets periodically and continually maintains a 10 year building maintenance plan that includes all the primary building systems such as HVAC, roofing, brickwork, painting, carpentry, plumbing, etc.

Contact Carol Peninger or Gloria Salgado if you are interested in helping with this ministry.

Mission/Activities: To review and make recommmendationsrelating to the employee handbook, procedures, job descriptions, professional development, etc.

Contact Carol Peninger or Gloria Salgado if you are interested in helping with this ministry.

Mission/Activities: To provide the means for girls, kindergarten to 12th grade, to participate in scouting. Help guide them to share of time, talent and treasure with our church community. If you are an adult who is fair, dependable and trustworthy, you can help Girl Scouts and have fun too! From troop leaders to supporters, and consultants to campers, the success of Girl Scouts depends upon the work and leadership of caring adult women and men of all ages.

Contact Maria Gonzalez, 817-370-4413.

Mission/Activities: To develop character and integrity for boys from 1st through 5th grade, to teach responsibility and build confidence and leadership skills. The Cub Scout motto is “Do Your Best”. The Cub Scout promise is “I promise to do my best, to do my duty to God and my Country; to help other peopl, and to obey the law of the Pack”. Many volunteer opportunities are available: Den and Assistant Den Leaders, Pack Committee positions, such as Pack photographer, webmaster, religious awards chairperson, popcorn sales chairperson, bowl-a-thon chairperson and others. Time commitment varies.

Contact: Kevin McCormick, 817-496-8895.

Mission/Activities: To promote the scouting ideals of duty to God, to Country, and to self. The Boy Scout program at Saint Andrew is a fun and exciting adventure for boys from 6th through 12th grade. Boy Scouting teaches citizenship, leadership, moral values, duty to God and Country, and outdoor camping skills. The scouts have fun as they advance in rank and maturity on the trail toward Eagle, the highest rank in scouting.

Contact: Ralph Kragle, 817-308-9340.

Mission/Activities: To provide members and their families with volunteer opportunities in service to the Catholic Church, the community, families, and young people. St. Andrew Council #9868 started in July of 1988 and has an active group of men and their families that help promote the four main precepts of our order; Charity, Unity, Fraternalism and Patriotism.

Contact: John Thibideau, Grand Knight, 817-924-7449 or Tom Mahony, Membership Director, 817-294-3437.

Mission/Activities: The Women of St. Andrew seeks to enable the women of the parish to grow spiritually and to encourage participation in family, community and parish life. Unless otherwise requested, families are assigned to circles by geographic location.

Contact: Angie Dow, 817-926-8318.

Mission/Activities: To gather together and make possible programs that attract men and women to the priesthood and religious life, while at the same time providing recognition and support for those who have already accepted God’s call. The Serra CLub is made up of dedicated Catholics who have committed themselves to support the work of the Church, especially through prayer and service to those who are thinking about or have decided that they have a vocation to the religious life. The following programs are part of the Serra Clubs annual plan: Regular Meetings, Vocation Awareness Program, 31 Club, Poster Contest, Monthly Benediction Service, Altar Servers’ Programs, Vocation Recruitment, and Seminarians’ Support.

Contact: Bill Kellenberger, 817-560-0990.

Mission/Activities: An organization dedicated to buillding an association that sponsors many religious, social, cultural, charitable and athletic events. This organization seeks to increase and establish fellowship among single adults. Membership is open to all single adults, divorced, separated and widowed. Activities include dances, movies, dinner, lunches, and many other fun things.

Contact: Robyn Sanders, 817-475-9604 or e-mail or Fort Woth Catholic Singles Website.