Greetings to All! 

Welcome to our new website.  As time goes on and our Web site grows, I hope that it will serve as a constant source of information about both The Ministry and Sr. Thea’s Choir.  I am looking forward to moving ahead with the mission of  bringing our brothers and sisters closer to the Lord.

KEEP PRAISING!

Darcel B. Whitten- Wilamowski 
Coordinator of the Ministry to Catholics of African Ancestry
phone: 516-678-5800 ext. 239
e-mail: dwhitten@drvc.org

Our Mission Statement

In order to ensure the participation of Catholics of African Ancestry in every facet of diocesan life, the purpose of the ministry shall be to:

1 - Serve the spiritual, cultural, educational, and social needs of Catholics of African Ancestry in the diocese;
2 - Encourage further insight and understanding by the church of these needs;
3 - Foster vocations to the priesthood, religious life, and deaconate;
4 - Stimulate the development and training of lay leaders, especially youth and young adults, of African ancestry to assume leadership roles at the parish and diocesan levels.
5 - Promote spiritual and liturgical rites that are synonymous with and culturally akin to people of African ancestry; and
6 - Work to identify and eliminate the seeds of racism that seriously affect relationships between Catholics of African Ancestry and those who are not.