Meet SMT

The Student Ministry Team (SMT) is the team of twelve Student Ministers (SMs) who organize and run events and projects for the Newman community. They are the main representatives of the Newman Student Fellowship to the parishioners, the campus, and THE WORLD.

Each student is paired up with a co-chair (co). Together, the pairs chair one of six committees: Education and Faith Development (EFD), Liturgy, Service, Community (Comm Comm), Outreach, and Executive (Exec). While all SMs are called to live out the goals of the entire Student Ministry Team, each committee specializes in different aspects of Christian living.

Executive (Exec)

Exec works to support and coordinate the other five committees and make sure that all of SMT is unified in its goals of bringing God’s Kingdom to earth. It is the job of Exec to provide spiritual nourishment for all of SMT and keep the other five committees in open dialogue with one another at all times.

Responsibilities include: All of SMT, the Newman Student Fellowship, General Meetings

Community (Comm Comm)

Because human beings were created to live in community with one another, Comm Comm works to create spaces for organic virtuous friendships to form. Comm Comm’s primary job is to facilitate casual social environments.

Responsibilities include: Halloween Party, Newman Formal, Study Hall, Karaoke Nights, Guardian Angel Program (bigs and littles), Pajama Party

Education and Faith Development (EFD)

You cannot love what you do not know. Therefore, EFD’s mission is to help the student community deepen their understanding of the faith and live it out in their daily lives whether they are cradle Catholics or completely new to the faith.  

Responsibilities include: Fellowship Fridays, Mini-Retreats

Liturgy

There are many ways to converse with God. Liturgy’s mission is to bring awareness to the beautiful ways we can practice our faith in the chapel by bringing to light the traditions of the Catholic Church.

Responsibilities include: Thursday night candlelit adoration and Mass, feast day celebrations, stations of the cross, rosary walks

Outreach

Outreach seeks to foster a spirit of ecumenism and interfaith dialogue and makes Christ visible and accessible outside of the immediate parish community. They also work with other committees to maximize the reach of their events. 

Responsibilities include: branding & merchandising, social media, photography/videography, tabling on Sproul

Service

Service works to recognize the dignity in all human life by serving the communities both within and outside Newman with humility and grace. Service Committee directs students in how to be the hands and feet of Christ by connecting them to parishioner and outside volunteer projects.

Responsibilities include: Berkeley Project, Loaves and Fishes, Cards for Veterans