Outreach, a community-based mission, extends the parish motto

“A People for Others”. 

The Outreach Commission nourishes the mind, body and spirit of not only the people of St. Ignatius but the surrounding community as well.  The Commission supports ministries that provide services and information to those in need of emotional, physical, or financial assistance.

Outreach Commission Long and Short Term Goals for 2023-2024

Short-Term Goals:

1. To meet with Hope Center representatives, in the next three months, to evaluate reviving our participation in their program. Our taking part in their ministry would be a service to the community of homeless in our area.
2. To organize the Walking With Moms In Need Program, including staffing, identifying needs and available resources. This will be completed in the next three months.

Long-Term Goals:

1. To build the Hope Center Ministry, within a year, to permanent staffing, leadership and procedures that will support the Hope Center on a permanent basis.
2. To establish Walking With Mom’s In Need and get approval to form the ministry in our parish, within a year.

Current Members:

Pauletter McNulla (Co-Chair)

Bill Miller (Co-Chair)

Liz Sloan (Pastoral Council)

Anthony Telesca (Pastoral Council)

Rosalva McPharsen

Paulette Williams

Mary Lou Helminiak (Recorder)

Michael Strathman 

Tina Elder

Rita Kramer 

Valeria Navarro (Alternate)

Ascencion Amado (Staff Liaison)

For more information,

outreachcommission@silcc.org

Organizes family and adult mission trips to the colonies of the Rio Grande Valley to help the elderly, infirm, and poor with home repairs and other charitable works.

For more information:

outreach@silcc.org

This ministry organizes and sponsors the "Gift of Life." We have blood drives four times a year.

Look in the bulletin for upcoming Drive dates.

For more information:

blooddrive@silcc.org

christmasangels@silcc.org 

This ministry matches donor families with families in need of assistance for gifts and food for Christmas.

The Correctional Ministries address the problems of those incarcerated in prisons and other correctional institutions. Lay people from St. Ignatius are currently involved in providing the Eucharist, spiritual support and education to the inmates in Harris County Jails.

If you are interested in learning more about correctional ministry activities at St. Ignatius, please contact Deacon Billy Chen, life@silcc.org 

If you would like further information about training and screening to participate in correctional ministry, please contact the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston and speak to Fr. Ron Cloutier or Marilyn Spradling at:

https://www.archgh.org/offices-ministries/clergy-formation-chaplaincy-services/correctional-ministries/

Archdiocese of Galveston / Houston

Office of Correctional Ministries

2403 Holcombe Blvd.

Houston, Texas, 77021

Father Ron Cloutier rcloutier@archgh.org

Marilyn Spradling mspradli@archgh.org

This ministry responds to parishioner needs for topics such as:

• Abortion 
• Foster and Adoption
• Homosexuality 
• Social Justice 
• Human Trafficking 
• Correctional Ministry 

For more information:

life@silcc.org

St. Ignatius has Joined  TX Congregational Disaster Readiness.

To join our team, please email disasterreadiness@silcc.org 

Sponsored by the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston, is a program developed to offer hope and aid to any woman facing a crisis pregnancy. When a woman comes to a Gabriel Parish, she will be provided with any help she may need to care for her unborn child.

For more information: 

gabriel@silcc.org

Grace Ministry offers social and educational opportunities for individuals with special needs, their families and friends in a safe and welcoming environment. We strive to reach out to parish families, families from the surrounding community, and area organizations to offer networking opportunities and act as a resource for children and adult individuals with disabilities, their parents, and their caregivers. We encourage families to become active in our parish programs where they can be welcomed and accepted into the full life of the church. Individuals of all ages and disabilities, physical, mental and emotional, are welcome.

Grace Ministry is collaborating with Treasures of Joy, a local disabilities organization, to bring social events to our parish - Bingo Game Nights and dances. The local parish and community is invited.

For more information:

grace@silcc.org

This committee is entrusted with funds and the stewardship of that money for the teachers' salaries of Our  Lady Of Guadalupe School in Chiche,  Guatemala. The committee promotes  parish support and mission awareness with events held during the year.

For more information:

mission@silcc.org

Through collaboration with Hope Center Houston, this ministry enlists volunteers from the parish to provide dignity through hospitality by opening and staffing the Hope center twice per month, providing weekly hot meals to homeless and hosting drives and fundraisers that support the mission of this homeless day center

For more information:

homeless@silcc.org

Through this national church-based mentoring program, St. Ignatius partners with Kaiser Elementary School to provide one-on-one mentoring for at-risk students who so desperately need and deserve the love, care, and attention of an adult.

For more information:

kidsshopeusa@silcc.org

We are a ministry that makes shawls and prayer mats for the homeless and sick. These are then blessed and given to those in need of healing or comfort.

For more information:

prayershawlgroup@silcc.org

We provide lunches to the hungry of Casa Juan Diego and those that come in for Financial Aid. For many of the recipients, it is their only meal for the day. Sandwich makers make sandwiches in their homes on Sunday, Tuesday, or Thursday. Drivers then deliver them to Casa Juan Diego on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. The commitments by Sandwich Makers     or Drivers are approximately once a month.

A ministry of caring people offering friendship, help, encouragement, and hope to homebound parishioners. Along with rides to mass, the goal of this ministry is to lighten the burden of the caregiver by providing temporary relief and assist the homebound to live in their home as long as possible

This ministry is a Catholic Lay Mission Outreach through which men, women, and youth 16 and over can have a profound one-week cross-cultural experience with the Mayas who live in the mountains of Guatemala. There is a Home Team and a Travel Team.