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Bereavement Team
Our parish community strives to reach out to those made vulnerable by the death of a loved one. The team hosts a Remembrance Mass for all the deceased parishioners in the spring. They provide workshops related to grief, loss, funeral planning, etc. The team meets the first Tuesday of February, April, May, June, October and December. It offers training in grief support and comfort to members of the parish family during the time of death of a loved one.
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Peace & Justice Team
The St. Pius X Peace and Justice Team organizes actions and programs to help the community encounter, understand and put into action a wide range of Catholic Social Teachings. The events involve adults, children, and families facilitating stewardship of the environment and the need to address differences non-violently. The team joins with state and country-wide campaigns led by the US Catholic Bishops for economic and political justice. Locally, we sponsor the Search for Peace Art event on peace and non-violence and the Good Friday Walk of the Cross, which prayerfully, exposes us to injustices in our community. Its goal is to bring to parishioners action and programs that deal with the roots of social justice issues. The team looks prayerfully beyond providing charity to secure dignity and justice for all God's people based on Catholic Social Teaching.
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Burnside Meals
Two teams make up this ministry; the first team is made up of over 100 parishioners who rotate in providing precooked casseroles, fruit, milk, bread, peanut butter and jelly. The second team is composed of 4-5 members who meet at the Church Hall to prepare donated foods and deliver and serve food to the homeless men living at the Transition Projects Shelter located at 4th and Glisan and to the homeless women living at Jean’s Place located on 11th and Sandy Blvd. The teams meet year round on the second Thursday of each month in the Church Hall kitchen from 5:15 to 6:15 pm.
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Prayer Chain
Team members are called and asked to pray for a person or situation. They then call another team member and it continues along the chain until all members have been contacted. Upon request, this group prays for the special intentions of those who are in need. Contact us for both prayer requests and to be a part of the chain.
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ESL (English Second Language)
English as a Second Language assists people who speak a language other than English to acquire enough English speaking skills to navigate through society. It is a one night a week commitment from 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. on either a Monday or a Thursday. Volunteers work as teachers or teacher’s assistants. Foreign language ability is not required.
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Prayer Shawl Ministry
This ministry helps those in need of comfort due to serious illness, loss of a loved one, or those with a critical problem. A prayer shawl, knitted or crocheted by ministry members, is given to the one in serious need. The shawl and included prayer reflect the givers wish to comfort those in pain and to remind them of God's promise to be always with us. This ministry is open to anyone with knitting or crocheting talents. Meetings are held as needed.
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Faith Café
Faith Café is dedicated to serving those in Washington County who are hungry for food, for community and starving for a sense of belonging. All 5 parishes of the Vicariate, the Filipino community and B.U.M. rotate weeks. St. Pius serve every 7th week. Knights of Columbus cook the meals. Backup cooks are needed as well as donations of desserts, paper products and containers for leftovers. We serve delicious hot meals at the Beaverton United Methodist Church (BUM) next door to the Beaverton Library on Sunday evening at 6:30 pm. Over 100 people from the local community participate each week.
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Returning Catholics (Landings)
Would you like to investigate returning to the Sacraments? St Pius X Church would like to extend an invitation to non-practicing Catholics to renew their faith. "Landings" is an opportunity to share faith stories and to talk about the Church with other Catholics and returning Catholics.
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Guadalupe Circle
The mission of Guadalupe Circle is to care for the migrant community in Washington County. At this time, it serves the Pumpkin Ridge Migrant Camp. Its role is to provide support with community resources, food, clothing and advocacy. The group also coordinates projects at the camp to improve living conditions. Meetings are held bi-monthly as needed. This is a shared ministry with St. Juan Diego.
LaCasita
The La Casita team assists over 100 residents at Campo Azul, a farm worker camp in Washington County near Scholls. It coordinates work projects to rehabilitate the camp’s cabins and provides spiritual and social activities for camp residents. Saturday evening mass is held at Campo Azul. La Casita hosts celebrations such as the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Christmas, Epiphany and Easter. Each fall La Casita distributes school supplies to the children at the camp, hosts a Christmas celebration and delivers food from the Oregon Food Bank in the spring. La Casita is a member of PACTO, a multi-denominational group of local churches that assists the 25 farm worker camps in Washington County.
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St. Francis Dining Hall
Meals are served to the homeless at St. Francis Dining Hall located in SE Portland on the 2nd and 4th Mondays of each month. Individuals, families and youth volunteers are welcome. The team meets the second and fourth Mondays of each month.
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Loaves and Fishes
Meets the first Wednesday of the month at the Elsie Stuhr Center located at 5550 SW Hall Blvd in Beaverton from 9:30 am to 1:00 pm. Volunteers package meals for delivery by Meals on Wheels and then facilitate meal service for seniors at the Elsie Stuhr Center Dining Room.
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St. Vincent De Paul Society
SVDP provides emergency assistance including food and help with rent and utilities. Training of volunteers is provided. Work is always in pairs, taking turns being ‘on call’ for one week at a time. SVDP organizes the annual Christmas Food Drive and Gift Program, the November Food Drive and Bundle Sundays. The team meets the first and third Mondays in the parish office conference room.
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Mary's Pantry
The Mary’s Pantry program positively influences a segment of our society who is down and out by providing them with a continuing source of nutritional food and toiletries. The program includes two food drives, one in the spring and one in the fall each year. Volunteers are busy for three weeks. The first week the grocery bags with the requested items typed and attached to the bag are distributed. The food is collected in the Youth Center the following two weeks and then is taken to the Downtown Chapel for distribution.
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Serra Club
The club promotes vocations to the priesthood and religious life. Meetings are held in Old St. Patrick’s Church the first and third Wednesdays of each month. Sponsored activities include a priest appreciation dinner, a sisters’ brunch and social activities with seminarians.
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Meals on Wheels
Meets the first Wednesday of each month at the Elsie Stuhr Center located at 5550 SW Hall Blvd. in Beaverton from 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Volunteer drivers deliver meals to shut-ins living in the Beaverton area.
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Sister Parish Sacred Heart
St. Pius X adopted Sacred Heart Parish in Pascagoula, Mississippi after Hurricane Katrina ripped through the area. Two groups of disaster relief teams were sent to the area to help to rebuild and restore hope to many residents throughout the affected area. There is still so much to do. Currently a third trip is in the works for this mission.
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Parish Nurses
Meets the last Thursday of each month in the Parish Office. All Registered Nurses and qualified volunteers are invited to participate in this ministry. Parish Nurses hold blood pressure screenings on the third weekend of each month after all masses. Programs include health education, counseling, and liaison to community resources and assistance in the maintenance of health and wellness for parish member and the community. Other activities include home visits, Eucharist ministry visits, referrals, hospice visitation and the Welcome Baby Program.
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Social Education Team
Our mission is to educate ourselves and others in the parish community on social justice issues, using Catholic Social Teaching as our guide. We meet the 2nd Tuesday of every month at 9:15 a.m. in the Church Office.
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Parish Vocation Team
The vocation Team started with prayer and over the years has initiated the Prayer Cross. An individual or family takes the cross for a week and prays for an increase in vocations to the priesthood and religious life. We have five Prayer Crosses in the parish: daily mass participants, the Knights, small Christian communities, Spanish community and the youth. We organize at least one Sunday homily each year on vocations, provide different prayer cards for vocations and take the 8th grade school children to Mt. Angel (both seminary and convent) for a day. Team members are assigned to parishes that do not have Teams or vocation activities in the hopes of establishing one.
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Special Needs Team Adaptive Liturgy
The team mission is to assist St. Pius X Parish in becoming a community of welcome and inclusion for parishioners with disabilities and their families, and to provide accommodation and access for parishioners with disabilities to enable their full participation in the life of the Church. We coordinate awareness education, accessibility modification and an adapted liturgy every 4th Sunday of the month at 2pm.
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"We are sent to care for the sick, those in need and to connect with the inactives."
