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Our Parish
Our Catholic community is located in the joyous hearts of its loving, caring parishioners.
People travel from all across the United States to
experience the down to earth expression of Christ’s message of love as celebrated in
the mass at St. Barbara Church and in the hearts and souls of its parishioners.
St. Barbara Church, founded in 1911, is experiencing a
physical and spiritual growth that has caused the community to begin construction of a
much larger facility to handle the large number of people who chose to make this their
spiritual home. The rustic country church, which remains as a chapel for small
weddings, funerals and weekday mass, and was joined in April 1997 with a much larger
church building and religious education center. The new facility, designed by Roy
Koczarski, AIA, maintains the charm of the country setting while opening the community to
all the richness of the Catholic liturgy.
Father Chuck Palluck
Father Chuck Palluck, affectionately known by parishioners as "Father Chuck", after nearly 35 years of joyful and loving spiritual leadership, retired from Saint Barbara in July. Father Chuck got his priestly start at St. John's Abbey and University in Collegeville, Minnesota. He remains in the hearts and prayers of the parishioners as he embarks on new adventures.
Father David Young
Saint Barbara is blessed to welcome Father David as its new priest. Father David comes to us from Saints Cosmas and Damian in Orting and Saint Andrew in Sumner.
Father David is not alone in the parish however. A lively pastoral council assists him in seeking the growth of life in Christ for the parish. A gentle finance commission and staff work together with the pastoral council to form a consistent core that promotes the parish goal: Saint Barbara is a welcoming parish that consciously provides spiritual growth for everyone, and advocates the relationship of Christ and family within the home. A huge, loving cadre of volunteers are the hands that carry the grace of Christ's love way beyond the physical setting of the parish plant.
Whether the vortex of spirituality that funnels through Saint Barbara Parish is ignited by Father David and his dedicated staff, the physical icon of the simple country church, the surrounding natural beauty of the great Northwest or the gentle hearts of those who make this their spiritual home, we do not know. What we do know is that God - Father, Son and Holy Spirit - lives and reigns in the hearts and souls of the community and of those who come to visit Saint Barbara Church.
If you'd like to come and see for yourself here's a map
for you to find us!!
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