Engagement and Development

The Office of Engagement and Development finds itself central in the life of all St. Francis of Assisi parishioners and folks discerning becoming a parishioner. Whether you are coming to a welcome event, going through RCIA, trying to figure out how to register to become a parishioner, give of your money, volunteer, getting your children in one of our schools or trying to get in touch with a certain ministry, our office can help you. If you have a question about the church or something involving you and the church, we either deal with it directly or can help get you connected and find the answer to your question.

Our office works with the church, schools, and ministries (Parish Life/Justice & Peace/Community Life/Liturgical) to help meet parishioners at whatever stage of life they are in and helping them get connected.

All of us have received gifts and we want to help you use your gifts of time, talent and treasure to serve each other, our community, as good stewards of God’s varied grace. Please contact Stacey Shine if you have questions. (Click here to visit St. Francis Serves) (Click here to give via FaithDirect)

Bishop's Annual Appeal

BAA totals for our Parish as of Thursday June 15 as reported by the Diocese:

2023 Campaign (7/15/23) 2022 Campaign (6/30/22)

Goal: $473,565 $509,088

Pledge Total: $471,991 99.5% $459,567 90.3%

Received Total: $448,368 94.7% $435,917 85.6%

Participating Families: 1129 20.5% 1100 21.6%

Total Families: 5,500 5,100

To-Go: $2,574

Click here to give to the BAA1819

Coffee and Donuts

As a faith community, we are called to take the word of God and Christ incarnate and go and share the Gospel out in the community. We also do this as a parish with one another, right after mass, with coffee and donuts. We hope you will join us Sundays (see schedule below) for Coffee & Donuts in Fellowship Hall (unless otherwise noted) from 10:00 am-11:30 am. Whether you are a well-known parishioner, a new parishioner, or a parishioner with kids at our school, you are welcome, and we want to see you! Grab a coffee, some donuts and get to know one another, take care of any church business and build community. Any questions please contact Maggie at maggie.@vladyka@stfrancisraleigh.org and if you are a ministry that would like to be spotlighted and help with the event, please contact Maggie. Thank you all and looking forward to seeing you there!

2024- 2025 Schedule: Coffee and Donuts will be in Fellowship Hall at 10am.

Sunday, September 22, 10am – Migrant Ministries will support
Sunday, October 27, 10am -LGBTQ+ ministry will support
Sunday, November 24, 10am –
Creche Event: December 13-15
- Friday, December 13 at 6:30pm – Seculars will support
- Saturday, December 14, 6:30pm – LGBTQ+ will support
- Sunday, December 15, 8:15am –
- Sunday, December 15, 10am –
- Sunday, December 15, 12:45pm –
- Sunday, December 15, 6:30pm –
Sunday, January 26, 10am- TFS to support (Catholic Schools week)

Called and Gifted

What is Called & Gifted? The Called & Gifted™ Discernment Process has been used since 1993 by over 200,000 lay, ordained, and religious Catholics and other Christians around the world. It is designed to help Christians discern the presence of charisms in their lives. Charisms, or spiritual gifts, are special abilities given to all Christians by the Holy Spirit to give them power both to represent Christ and to be a channel of God’s goodness for people. Whether extraordinary or ordinary, all charisms ought to be exercised in the service of God (Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2003).  All three parts of the process are necessary for discovering where you are gifted. 

Part One is the Called and Gifted workshop, which lays the foundation for the beginning of discernment. During the initial Called & Gifted workshop series the participants will take the Catholic Spiritual Gifts Inventory.
Part Two is the one hour gifts interview, an invaluable part of the process. 
Part Three helps you begin discernment in the real world. It will teach you how to:

- develop charism experiments
- evaluate your results
- identify ways you learned to control life as a child that get in the way of using your charisms as an adult.
Called and Gifted Interview with Sherry Weddell
Called and Gifted video Interview with Jacob House
Charism Video – part of the KBL series
Charisms – Which One are You?

Why should I look into the Called & Gifted experience?

• Have you ever felt a true sense of joy and energy when doing something?

• Are there times when you just jump in to help someone complete a task?

• Do people tell you “you’re a good listener”?

• Do you love to read, gather knowledge and feel joy in sharing that knowledge?

These are just some simple examples of how the Holy Spirit maybe alive in you and calling you to a deeper relationship with Jesus and those around you.

Curious to learn more?

When is the Next Called & Gifted Class?

We will post the schedule as soon as we have scheduled the next program.

Here’s what people are saying about Charisms and the Called and Gifted Program

Engagement and Development

Mass Schedule

Resource Links

Map

Contact Us

Office Hours

Assisi Café Hours