Leadership Teams
Pastoral Planning Oversight Group
Oversees entire project, offering high-level guidance and feedback, offers recommendations to Archbishop
Schnurr.
Leisa Anslinger
Fr. Eric Bowman
Rob Brock
Fr. Tom DiFolco
Fr. Earl Fernandes
Jeremy Helmes
Jennifer Schack
Mike Schafer
Fr. Jan Schmidt
Fr. Shawn Landenwitch
Fr. Chris Worland
Fr. Matt Robben
Beacons Core Team
Coordinates and executes all aspects of Beacons of Light at the archdiocesan level.
Fr. Jan Schmidt, Leader
Leisa Anslinger
Rob Brock
Jeremy Helmes
Jennifer Schack
Mike Schafer
Archdiocesan Deans
Provide input, feedback, disseminate information to and solicit responses from the priests of the archdiocese, as
well as providing leadership in the deaneries.
Fr. Steve J. Angi
Fr. Paul Del Staigers
Fr. John MacQuarrie
Fr. Thomas Mannebach
Fr. Brian Phelps
Fr. Matthew J. Robben
Fr. Jan Kevin Schmidt
Fr. Larry Tharp
Fr. John Tonkin
Fr. Richard Walling
Fr. Bernard Weldishofer
Fr. Sean Wilson
Strategic Planning Task Group
Leads the data collection, analysis, and modeling of Families of Parishes
Rob Brock, Leader
Fr. Dave Endres
Susie Gibbons
Bill Maly
Fr. Del Staigers
Vince Woodall
PartnersEdge project leads:Â
Dennis Cheesbrow
Mike Laughery
Dorfha Vang
Rich Swanson
Pastoral Planning Task Group
(Is transitioning to design teams)
Fr. Tim Fahey
Fr. Len Wenke
Mark Machuga
Cathy Magness
Birgitt Hacker
Linda Mulvaney
Ron McDonald
Greg Feldkamp
Pilar Hernandez
Pat Bergen
Rachel Niekamp
Miranda Schweiterman
Pastoral Planning Pathway Design Teams
Working groups that will design the parish pastoral planning process. Each team is led by a Pastoral Center staff member and
includes clergy and laity from throughout the archdiocese.
Eucharist:Â
Jeremy Helmes, Leader
Patricia Bergen
Fr. David Doseck
Ms. Lisa Fullenkamp
Matthew Geerlings
Cathy Magness
Jessica Mills
Dcn. Chris Rauch
Fr. Ryan Ruiz
Church & Leadership:
Dcn. Mark Machuga, Leader
Fr. Timothy Fahey
Dcn. Amado (Madz) Lim
Ron McDonald
Scott Mussari
Rachel Niekamp
Teresa Palmer
Dcn. Clif Perryman
Fr. Sean Wilson
Fr. Tom Wray
Stewardship:
David Kissell, Leader
Jennifer Becker
Julie Burt
Tim Clifford
Erin Dwyer
Dee Gauche
Sarah Merkel
Cathy Nagy
Matt Reinkemeyer
Tina Wagoner
Evangelization:
Sean Ater, Leader
Christen Aquino
Nicholas Hardesty
Becky Henlser
Shane Legg
Samuel Vasquez
Adriana Vasquez
Wayne Topp
Love in Action:
Tony Stieritz, Leader
Mary Anne Bressler
Mary Jo Burns
Noelle Collis-DeVito
Mike Gable
Esperanza Gallon
Mike Handorff
Vivian Koob
Mike Lehner
Andrew Musgrave
Sr. Christine Pratt
Fr. Mike Pucke
Laura Roesch
Deanna Spatz
Dcn. Royce Winters
Bob Wurzelbacher
Administration:
Rob Brock, Leader
Tom Jennings
Joe Mangan
Fr. Andrew Moss
Sue Nietfeld
Rob Reid
Fr. James Reutter
Fr. Del Staigers
Vince Woodall
Communication:
Mike Schafer, Leader
Dominick Albano
Jessica Rinaudo
Jennifer Schack
Leadership Roundtable pastoral planning consultants:
