Organizations
Socialize with a purpose and share your gifts in one of our amazing organizations. Our organizations meet regularly for socials, meetings, and various projects or events they sponsor throughout the year. We have groups for men, women, children, seniors, moms, and more, each with their own mission. Join an organization today!
ACTS Core
ACTS (Adoration, Community, Theology, Service) Retreats are designed to facilitate the personal spiritual growth of adult lay Catholics. Parishioners who are former ACTS retreatants serve on teams to present retreats. Parishioners who are former ACTS team members serve on the ACTS core team, which selects each retreat’s director and oversees the facilitation of ACTS retreats.
Scouts BSA
Scouts BSA provides youth ages 10 through 18 experiences to build character, develop leadership skills, and serve their community. Adults guide them in educational activities, camp outings, service projects, and retreats to promote physical, mental, and spiritual well-being.
Cub Scouts
Cub Scouts provides youth 10 years and younger experiences to build character, develop leadership skills and serve their community. Adults guide them in educational activities, camp outings, service projects and retreats to promote physical, mental & spiritual well-being.
CYO Athletics
CYO adult volunteers serve as coaches and provide support for parish baseball, basketball, football and soccer teams, where members grow and mature in Catholic values and a sense community.
We have our own website, where you can register and find much more information. – stfranciscyo.org –
American Heritage Girls
American Heritage Girls is a Christ-centered leadership and character development ministry. American Heritage Girls builds “women of integrity through service to God, family, community and country.” For more information, please contact Jillian Tubbs at 210-287-2125 or email ahgtx3145@gmail.com.
Festival Committee
Festival Committee volunteers devote their time to planning our annual parish festival that is scheduled on the closest Sunday to October 4, the feast day of St. Francis of Assisi.
Knights of Columbus
Knights of Columbus is an organization guided by charity, unity, fraternity, and patriotism to support and instill Catholic values in men and families. The Knights support organizations inside and outside the parish through fundraising and service.
KC Ladies Auxiliary
KC Ladies Auxiliary members support Knights of Columbus’s charitable and fraternal purposes, enhances family social life and promotes good fellowship and love.
Moms Ministry
Ministry of Mothers in Service welcomes mothers from every stage of motherhood including those who experience motherhood for the first time to great grandmothers. In this ministry, we seek to provide moms with the skills and tools needed to flourish in their homes and enhance family life. Our group of moms comes together once a month for learning and support in fulfilling our vocation as moms, fellowship, and enhancing our relationship with Christ.
Men’s Club
Men’s Club members participate in a variety of parish activities including pancake breakfasts, barbecue chicken cooking, Casino Night, and a golf tournament. Funds raised support activities in our parish and our sister parishes.
Silver Stars
Silver Stars is a membership group of parishioners, 50 years of age and older, who meet regularly to socialize, support each other through prayer and friendship, and enjoy cultural activities and travel.
Society of the Rosary
Society of the Rosary members promote devotion to the Blessed Mother by praying the rosary at regularly scheduled times throughout the month. Members also make rosaries to distribute through parish outreach ministries.
Young Adult Ministry
It is the mission of the St. Francis of Assisi Young Adult Ministry to create, maintain, and nurture in the St. Francis of Assisi parish community a place where young adults will enter together more deeply into the life of Jesus Christ by offering their individual and collective youth, vitality, talents, and energy to the service of others and the community and by forming a community of friends and peers who, together, enjoy working, playing, studying, learning, and seeking to bring Christ’s presence to the world.
The St. Francis of Assisi Young Adult Ministry is made up of young adults roughly 18-35 years of age. The group meets on the first and third Wednesday of each month at 6:30 p.m. for faith formation, prayer, and group discussion. Additionally, the group takes opportunities to participate and serve in the life and ministry of the St. Francis of Assisi parish community, as well as the greater San Antonio community. The group also holds social activities and events to get to better know one another and grow together as brothers and sisters in Christ. These activities have included hiking, Top Golf, Chicken N Pickle, an escape room, brunch after Mass, and pumpkin carving.
For more information, please visit our group page at www.fb.com/groups/sfayoungadult, email sfa.youngadultgrp@gmail.com, or contact Kenneth Caruthers or Larry Perry in the parish office.