Welcome to our website! We're happy you've found us on the web; here's a little bit about us.

Our 640 registered households comprise over 1800 people. We have four weekend Masses, a thriving Hispanic community, many parishioners who give their time and talent as volunteers, and we offer nearly 60 different committees, projects, councils and ministries. These make our parish strong in offering worship to our Lord, education to young and old, and services to those in need.

Those who wish to volunteer at the parish have no difficulty finding opportunities to do so. This is an exciting time at St. John's. As our parish continues to grow, new events are added, and our new members offer their unique talents to help the parish grow in love of God and neighbor.

We strongly support Catholic education with our own school for pre-kindergarten through sixth grade students. We work hard to integrate our parish and our school, remembering that it is part of the parish’s mission to educate our young, and it is a part of our school’s mission to form the future leaders of our parish.

Of course, nothing compares to visiting us in person, so now that you've found us here, I hope you will join us on a Sunday and meet us. I hope to see you soon.

Fr. Jim Liekhus
Pastor

From the Code of Canon Law

The pastor (parochus) is the proper pastor (pastor) of the parish entrusted to him, exercising the pastoral care of the community committed to him under the authority of the diocesan bishop in whose ministry of Christ he has been called to share, so that for that same community he carries out the functions of teaching, sanctifying, and governing, also with the cooperation of other presbyters or deacons and with the assistance of lay members of the Christian faithful, according to the norm of law.

A pastor is obliged to make provision so that the word of God is proclaimed in its entirety to those living in the parish; for this reason, he is to take care that the lay members of the Christian faithful are instructed in the truths of the faith, especially by giving a homily on Sundays and holy days of obligation and by offering catechetical instruction. He is to foster works through which the spirit of the gospel is promoted, even in what pertains to social justice. He is to have particular care for the Catholic education of children and youth. He is to make every effort, even with the collaboration of the Christian faithful, so that the message of the gospel comes also to those who have ceased the practice of their religion or do not profess the true faith.

The pastor is to see to it that the Most Holy Eucharist is the center of the parish assembly of the faithful.

He is to work so that the Christian faithful are nourished through the devout celebration of the sacraments and, in a special way, that they frequently approach the sacraments of the Most Holy Eucharist and penance. He is also to endeavor that they are led to practice prayer even as families and take part consciously and actively in the sacred liturgy which, under the authority of the diocesan bishop, the pastor must direct in his own parish and is bound to watch over so that no abuses creep in.

In order to fulfill his office diligently, a pastor is to strive to know the faithful entrusted to his care.

Therefore he is to visit families, sharing especially in the cares, anxieties, and griefs of the faithful, strengthening them in the Lord, and prudently correcting them if they are failing in certain areas. With generous love he is to help the sick, particularly those close to death, by refreshing them solicitously with the sacraments and commending their souls to God; with particular diligence he is to seek out the poor, the afflicted, the lonely, those exiled from their country, and similarly those weighed down by special difficulties. He is to work so that spouses and parents are supported in fulfilling their proper duties and is to foster growth of Christian life in the family.

A pastor is to recognize and promote the proper part which the lay members of the Christian faithful have in the mission of the Church, by fostering their associations for the purposes of religion. He is to cooperate with his own bishop and the presbyterium of the diocese, also working so that the faithful have concern for parochial communion, consider themselves members of the diocese and of the universal Church, and participate in and sustain efforts to promote this same communion.