Baptismal Preparation Team
Richard and Renee Smith: 462-3013 or richsmith5@netscape.com

Liturgical Committee
Assists the pastor with the preparation of the Sunday and Holy Week liturgies at St. Jude Station.

Marriage Preparation Team
Richard and Renee Smith: 462-3013 or richsmith5@netscape.com

Pastoral Associate
The Pastoral Associate, ministering to St. Jude station under the direct supervision of the pastor, is authorized :

• To assist the Pastor in fostering St. Jude community spirituality.
• To coordinate and support the various station ministries.
• To conduct the preparation of parents who wish to have their children baptized.
• Be one of the station's Marriage Advocates.
• To initiate and support an R.C.I.A program at St. Jude's.
• Reach out to the local Christian Community and inactive Catholics through the Evangelization and Re-Membering programs.
• Promote participation of the community in retreats, workshops, liturgies and other like opportunities offered by the station and diocese.
• Be a voting member of the St. Jude Station Pastoral Committee.
• Ensure that the needs of a visiting priest providing station pastoral care are met.
• If the pastor is absent and he can't be reached, the Pastoral Associate is authorized to follow a policy established by the pastor to deal, in consultation with diocesan authorities, with sudden local emergencies.

The Pentecost Circle
Initiated in fall 2003, at the initiative of Rosemary Koenig. This is St. Jude's adult religious education program. It consists of:

• Periodic meetings when Rosemary Koenig offers talks on selected religious topics, like church history, the liturgy, the Scriptures.
  
• Discussion groups and common prayer experiences.
  
• Participants are encouraged to participate in the Diocesan Falls Conference and other opportunities for adult education offered by the diocese.
  

Objective: To deepen the spiritual life of St. Jude adults and to offer to them data about the Catholic Church beliefs and traditions.

Responsible Party: Rosemary Koenig, Coordinator.

The Cenacle
Initiated in fall 2006, at the initiative of Veronica Borgeman.

Objective: Meet weekly to pray for priests and vocations.

Responsible Party: Veronica Borgeman.

Children’s Catechism.
A long established program designed to train children to receive their First Communion, offered when a parish child is of age to begin his First Communion preparation. The SJPC totally changed this program in summer 2005, the revised program was presented to and approved by the diocese in summer 2005. The new program is as follows:

• To offer diocesan approved teaching tools to the parents for them to prepare their own children, at home, for First Communion.
  
• For the parents and children to gather at least twice during each semester in the parish hall to receive a common instruction and for socialization. To take advantage of these gathering to present the children and their parents to the worshiping community. This aspect of the program emphasizes that Holy Communion is not a private devotion but a communal activity.
  
• To create opportunities for the children to begin assuming responsible roles in the St. Jude Sunday mass.
  
• Sherry Hoene and Rosemary Koenig work with the parents and take care of necessary records to be forwarded to Sacred Heart.
  
  Because there have not been children needing preparation for Fist Communion, this program has not been offered yet.
  

Objectives: The Children Catechism program has three objectives: 1. To prepare the children for their First Communion; 2. At the same time to offer an opportunity for the parents themselves to review basic data on the Eucharist; 3. To encourage an at home atmosphere for the parents freely to talk about religion with their children. This will facilitate the need for the parents to talk about ‘religion’ when their children become teenagers.

Reponsible Party: Sherry Hoene and Rosemary Koenig working as a team with the parents.

St. Jude Pastoral Committee
A committee of the Sacred Heart, Emmett Parish Pastoral Council. This is an advisory cimmittee. Its mission is to identify the pastoral needs of the St. Jude Station community and the means to meet those needs.
Chairman, St. Jude Pastoral Committee: Fr. Marcellus Fernandez (365-4320).

The HALO Program
Formally initiated in summer 2001 as the St. Jude Youth Ministry, this program was reviewed and changed in summer 2006, and it was renamed as the ÎHALO Program.â It is the St. Jude parish formal program eventually to prepare teens for the reception of the Sacrament of Confirmation. But this program is open to youth of local families that are not Catholics, provided that the parents give their consent for their children to participate in the HALO Program which is not a proselityizing program. The HALO program consists of:

• The usual parish youth ministry meetings, as organized by and supervised by the HALO St. Jude team that has completed the diocesan Safe Environment training. These meeting are for ( a ) Fun and games; ( b ) Religious instructions in preparation for Confirmation; ( c ) Teaching the Roman Catholic tradition on human sexuality; (d) Communal Social Services.
  
• Participation, as possible, in the events offered by the Holy Apostles and St. Mark's Youth Ministry programs, in Boise.
  
• Participation in diocesan youth oriented gatherings, particularly their annual encounters / retreats.
  
• A pilgrimage to Mexico for religious purpose (visiting Guadalupe Shrine), cultural opportunities, coming into contact with the poor.

Objectives: Preparing Catholic youth for the reception of the Sacrament of Confirmation; To instill in Catholic youth a sense of social responsibility, according to the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church; To create solid bases for Catholic youth to grow as committed Roman Catholics; To expose non-Catholic youth to Catholic traditions and to allow them opportunities for wholesome socialization with local peers.

Responsible Party: The St. Jude's youth team: Janice and Rafael Castillo, Sherry and Keith Hoene (Coordinators).

Obregon (Mexico) Children Refugee Ministry
See extensive information on this project by visiting http://www.angelitosdedios.org.

Responsible Party: Ramon and Susan Encinas

The Pueri (Latin for "The Children")
Discussed by the SJPC in late winter / spring 2006, this program was formally initiated in summer 2006. As an outreach program, The Pueri is open to local home-schooled children of any religious affiliation, provided that the parents give their consent for their children to participate in the program. Parental participation is encouraged.

• It offers to parents and children opportunities to come together, socialize, exchange views, share some religious instruction.
  
• This program is regarded as a St. Jude School 'seed' project, to begin establishing a record to keep facilitating the eventual foundation of the St. Jude School Project.
  
• This program is offered three times a year: One summer week; Fall sessions, as scheduled; Spring sessions, as scheduled.
  

Objectives: This program was created particularly for the benefit of home-schooled children:

Responsible Party: Rosemary Koenig, Coordinator.

St. Jude School Project
After the SJPC discussed this project among themselves and with diocesan authorities, the St. Jude Congregation was informed about this project in all 2005. The St. Jude School Project was formally initiated during the 2005 Advent season with the selling of Christmas trees.

Objective: To have a small Catholic grammar school attached to St. Jude.

Reponsible Party: The SJPC who accepted functioning as the "St. Jude School Advisory Board."