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The Adult & Family Ministry Office attempts to provide holistic services, ministry, program and activities through all the ages and stages of development of the people of Holy Spirit Parish. The emphasis is on the development of the whole person and on integration of that person into the community.
Since no area of parish life functions without touching an individual and the family to which that individual belongs, be it family of origin, family of present or family of future, the Adult & Family Ministry Office through its director, associate, volunteers and peer ministries work to advocate a family perspective with a family systems approach in all areas of ministry emanating from that office. Adult & Family Ministry also seeks to advocate such a focus in all ministry in the parish in the hope that, as we serve any member of a family, we will in turn reach out to those connected to that member. Another function of the Adult & Family Ministry Office is to assist families in being advocates for themselves in the church, community and the society in which they live and work.
The National Conference of Catholic Bishops "Plan of Pastoral Action for Family Life Ministry, A Vision and Strategy" serves as a model for providing the goals and objectives through which the Adult & Family Ministry Office has been charged to create "structures that facilitate, caring that enables, listening that understands, ministry that serves" in the following areas: pre-marrieds, singles, marrieds, parenting, developing families, quality of life and leadership families.
The Adult & Family Ministry Office works in cooperation with other parish ministries to provide an overall thrust that recognizes the needs of parishioners as well as the need to utilize the talents/expertise of those accountable for other ministerial areas in the parish. An example of this would be the wide variety of adult education, parent-child education/formation issues, personal and spiritual growth issues for the individual and family resulting from the collaboration of the Offices of Faith Formation for Children and Youth with the Adult & Family Ministry Office or the Catholic Sex & sexuality/Respect Life/AIDS Mini-Series incorporated into the Faith Formation Program through the Adult & Family Ministry Office. The Adult & Family Ministry Office also works in collaboration with diocesan entities to provide a continuum of quality service in areas where a parish could not possibly service its members as well by operating alone.