Dear Friends,

Welcome to our web page! I am glad you have taken the time to visit us on the web. Now I invite you to visit us in person! We at St. Joseph Church welcome all who are on the journey to Christ. We celebrate the life of Jesus Christ in all we say and do here in our Catholic Christian community.

We are first and foremost a Eucharistic people who long to see the face of God. Each Sunday we gather to celebrate the Sacrifice of the Mass, the source and summit of our Christian living. We form our community in, with and through Jesus Christ.

We celebrate in Word and song. Perhaps you’d like to lend your talent in proclaiming the Word of God at our Liturgies. Perhaps you’d prefer to praise God in song in one of our many choirs. 

We fulfill Christ’s command to go out and teach all nations in our Religious Education Program and in our St. Joseph Elementary School. Our parish is blessed with many children. To assist them in finding Christ as the Way, the Truth and the Life we have outstanding teachers, both volunteer and professional. Please contact our Office of Faith Formation to speak with Mrs. Paula Sivulka or the school to speak with Mrs. Margaret Snyder about educating your children. 

We share our gifts of the Spirit with each other in RCIA, Catholic Women, Men’s Retreat, Bible Study, Prayer Group and spiritual Book Club. We grieve and comfort each other in our Saturday morning Grief Group.

We serve our neighbors in need through the St. Vincent de Paul Society, in volunteering at Our Daily Bread, Emmanuel’s Closet, Problem Pregnancy Center and visiting our shut-ins, retirement centers and nursing homes. 

We recreate our spirits through Cub and Boy Scouts, boys and girls basketball, tee ball and softball. Our teens make new friends all over the country in Youth Ministry. Our Senior members share their time honored knowledge of age and experience in activity and travel as the Pacesetters.

In all we are, as one person said to me, “a devout and actively growing community of believers!” 

Henry Ward Beecher said, “Some churches are like lighthouses, built of stone, so strong that the thunder of the sea cannot move them—with no light at the top. That which is the light of the world in the Church is not its largeness, nor its services celebrated with pomp and beauty, not its music, not the influences in it that touch the taste or instruct the understanding: it is the Christ likeness of its individual members.”

Fr. Charles L. Persing

Pastor