Respect Life Committee

Members: Donna Huelskamp, Justin May, Linda Meyer, Mandy Miller, Barbara Monnin, Marlene Puthoff, Connie Schmitmeyer, Patches Trevino, Jeanne Turpen, Kathy Wood Re

Purpose: to promote the dignity of the human person from conception to natural death

Tasks/responsibilities: To rediscover and make others rediscover the inviolable dignity of every human person makes up an essential task, in a certain sense, the central and unifying task of the service which the Church and the lay faithful in her are called to render to the human family. Pope John Paul II, Christifideles Laici, 1988, #37.

1. Set issues within a theological framework
2. educate on life issues
3. plan activities, events around life issues
4. identify available services and means to contact those in need with those services

Committee: Mandy Miller, Patches Trevino, Justin May, Linda Meyer, Marlene Puthoff, Connie Schmitmeyer, Barbara Monnin, Jeanne Turpen, Kathy Wood, Donna Huelskamp, Jane Pierron, Father Ron Haft

Suggested future activities from the January 10, 2017 meeting

1. monthly holy hour for the closing of the abortion clinic in Kettering
2. prayer at the abortion clinic
3. end of life concerns
4. drug abuse, especially the presence of heroin in our communities
5. suicide
6. human trafficking