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The St. Anastasia Pastoral Council is an elected position whose term limit is three years. Positions can also be made through appointment by the Pastor. The main goal of the Council is to further the mission of our Church through coordinating the various St. Anastasia Sub-Committees into an organized body of volunteers.
The Council is involved in all areas of outreach that St. Anastasia Church provides to the community. The Council coordinates four main Sub-Committees that are divided into Education, Evangelization/Spiritual Life, Human Concerns, and Parish Life.
Meetings: 4th Monday of every month @ 6:30 pm.
Officers
President: Jim Ross
Vice-President: Luis Vargas
Secretary: Dick Roberts
Members: Cindy Carpenter, Joan Dehmlow, John Ferraro, Tom Gutantes, Judy Hodnik, Marilyn Lesnak, Cindy Montry, Dennis Pankiewi, Armando Pena, George Spaeth, Kristi Streit, and Mike Zawaski. |
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The Finance Council is chaired by Jamie O'Meara
The Council is responsible for monitoring, managing, ensuring the financial well-being of the parish.
Meetings: fourth Tuesday of the month at 6:30 PM
Members: Jamie O'Meara, Lisa Anderson, Cathie Brolley, Monica Mercado, Mark Carpenter, Don Meadie, Almira Wagon, Elvie Ocampo, Dennis Pankiewicz, Mervin Matteo
When is the all ministry active: all year, all the time
Volunteer information:
Training: financial/business management background helpful |
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The St. Anastasia Development Board was organized in 1988 during Father Terrence A. McCarthy's pastorate. Almost unique in the archdiocese at that time, the Development Board was formed to build and implement a traditional financial development plan to augment existing fund-raising activities for the school. The group, composed of parishioners and school alumni, was established in order to meet the challenge established by Joseph Cardinal Bernardin to insure the school’s long-term financial stability. At that time, the school was faced with the possibility of joining a proposed major consolidation of area Catholic elementary schools. The establishment of the Development Board was one of several initiatives undertaken to keep St. Anastasia School a traditional, neighborhood Catholic school.
The Development Board supervises the work of a part-time Director of Development, whose responsibilities include conducting an Annual School Appeal among parishioners and alumni, soliciting major gifts, corporate support, foundation grants and the establishment and maintenance of a school endowment.
Today, the Development Board has supervision of two endowments for the school – one restricted to provide financial aid assistance to St. Anastasia School students, and the other to provide annual stipends to St. Anastasia School veteran faculty for the purpose of recruiting, retaining and rewarding dedicated, outstanding teachers. |
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 Rev. Aloysius Funtila, fondly called by all as Fr. Aloy was ordained in Cuyapo, Nueva Ecija, Philippines in 1983 after graduating from Maryhill School of Theology, a seminary founded by CICM (Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary) Belgian priests.
While awaiting his visa, during the Benigno Aquino assassination, for his first permanent assignment, he was temporarily made associate pastor at St. Andrew Church in Parañaque, Metro Manila. After two months, he left for Taiwan to start his missionary work, where with his vow of obedience had to assume the position of pastor with hardly any command of the Chinese (Taiwanese) language. After his tenure in 1990, he went back to the Philippines to pursue his studies in Family Counseling at Ateneo de Manila. After graduation, he was recalled to Taiwan for a second Chinese language studies in Mandarin. Already fluent in two Chinese languages, he decided to come to the United States in 1993, to enroll in a Master’s Program in Counseling at the University of California at Berkeley.
That same year in November, he was invited to the windy city and was an extern priest at St. Angela Church in Chicago for six months, then became the church administrator that lasted for one and a half years. Recognizing Fr. Aloy’s ability, commitment and devotion to his pastorate, then Archbishop Francis George and the Archdiocese of Chicago granted him incardination in 1998, followed by his assignment as associate pastor here at St. Anastasia Catholic Church.
Always a missionary-at-heart, since becoming pastor of our church in 2002, Fr. Aloy tends to his sheep always with the credo, “What Would Jesus Do?” He administers St. Anastasia with an open mind, but very determined when it calls for critical decisions, especially when it comes to providing Catholic education to children.
Father Aloy is devoted to the parishioners of St. Anastasia Church, and a great proponent of Catholic education in the area. |
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Parish Governence
