Mission Statement
The mission of Ascension Social Concerns Ministry Coordination Team is to inspire and support our parish in living out our baptismal call, integrating Catholic Social Teaching in our community and promoting the dignity of life.

 Nuestra Misión
La misión del equipo de coordinación de Preocupaciones Sociales de Ascensión es inspirar y apoyar a nuestra parroquia a vivir nuestro llamado bautismal, integrando la enseñanza Social Católica en nuestra comunidad  
 y promoviendo la dignidad de la vida.

Our Baptismal Call is to LIVE the Gospel 
 ~ Every baptized person!

Nuestro Llamado Bautismal es vivir el Evangelio 

~ ¡Todos los bautizados!

Knowledge of the Gospels, the Word of God, leads to experiencing the Spirit. 

This Holy Spirit moves in us and moves us into a community that loves others. 

We see the world as our community,
 and we are moved toward service to our brothers and sisters. 

We are  called as Church to discern how to most fully live the Gospel,

and act in our faith:  

The Bishops have defined 7 key Catholic Social Teachings // 

USCCB Catholic Social Teaching ResourcesUSCCB RECURSOS DE LA ENSENANZA SOCIAL CATOLICA

These are the teachings of our Catholic Christian Church.
 How are we called to best carry them out? 

The Bishops created a document called “Communities of Salt and Light” that helps parishes organize in a way that encourages parishioners to act out their faith, or in other words, “Live the Gospel”. 

From this document, and in responding to our Baptismal Call, we have formed a coordination group:  Social Concerns Ministry Coordination Team. 
We meet quarterly, and “Our mission is to inspire and support our parish in living out our baptismal call, integrating Catholic Social Teaching in our community, and promoting the dignity of life.” 

Understanding that we need two feet of love in action, we work using this model to ensure that our parish social concerns ministry is well-rounded and incorporates both social justice and charitable works. Some examples of social justice projects include: Selling and Serving Fair Trade Products, having hundreds of parishioners write postcards and letters for just immigration laws, a just farm bill, and supporting the dream act. Some of the charitable works our parish participates in is our SVDP food pantry, serving dinner at Rahab's Sisters, Monday Food Boxes, and our family homeless shelter. 

This is all part of answering our call to live out our faith. 

Our team wants you to know about these teachings,
 about our team
 and about the opportunities for you to be involved
 and more fully answer God's call.
 If you would like to answer God's call to serve,
 please contact Ruth Prins at the Parish Office
 503-256-3897 x108
 

El conocimiento de los Evangelios y la Palabra de Dios nos llevan
a experimentar el Espíritu.
 
Este Espíritu se mueve en nosotros y nos lleva a una comunidad que ama a los demás.

Vemos el mundo como una sola comunidad, y nos mueve al servicio a nuestros hermanos y hermanas.
 

La Iglesia ha hablado sobre como vivir el Evangelio, cómo interpretar el mensaje del Evangelio y como actuar en nuestra fe.
 

• Vender y servir productos de Comercio Justo
• Motivar a cientos de feligreses a escribir postales y cartas apoyando leyes justas de inmigración, leyes agrícolas justas, y el apoyo a la Ley DREAM ACT (Soñador). Some of the charitable works our parish participates in is our SVDP food pantry and our family homeless shelter.

• Nuestra despensa de comida de SVDP
• Nuestro albergue para familias desamparadas. There are many more examples.

Todos estos son ejemplos de vivir nuestra fe.
 
Queremos que usted sepa acerca de estas enseñanzas, sobre nuestro equipo y sobre las oportunidades para que usted participe y más plenamente conteste su llamado bautismal.

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