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Home » Leadership » Pastoral Council 2007-2008 » Jose Gonzales

Jose Gonzales, Chair

Hello everyone, my name is Jose Gonzales, and I am the Pastoral Council chair for this year. I am deeply honored to have been called to serve you in this office, and I hope and pray that I may serve you all well in this capacity.

I have been a member of the community for a long time. My wife and I joined the community soon after I graduated from UCSD (with a bachelor's degree in Biochemistry/Cell Biology). We have seen a lot of changes in this community in that time, from a change from our founding fathers the Paulists to our wonderful Dominican pastors, and from our old haunts in the Lutheran chapel across the street from Revell College, to our current digs here at Good Samaritan. Through it all, we know that we have found our permanent spiritual home here.

I have been married to my beautiful wife Joyce for 19 years. We have 3 wonderful children, Stephen (16), Rachel (10) and Jonah (8). My family is the center of my life. Here in this community, my children are being raised with the values and beliefs that I want them to learn; a deep and abiding faith in God, an open mind and a welcoming heart to any and every one, and service to others.

I've been in the choir for most of my time here, and many of you will recognize me as one of the faces in the tenor section at the 12:30 mass. But in all my years in the choir, I've never enjoyed singing as much as I do these days, with Julie Marner at the helm. More than anyone else, she has taught me that music ministry is indeed a ministry, and its offering is an expression of God's love for us.

I joined the Pastoral Council because I wanted to reach out beyond my comfort zone, to meet other people and to become more involved in the life of the community. I hope that others will also be inspired to go beyond their boundaries and become more involved, and realize not only that they have gifts which they can offer to God in service of others, but that in their sharing, they will receive so much more from the bounty that God gives us.