Blood Drive

This ministry organizes and sponsors the "Gift of Life". We have blood drives four times a year.

Christmas Angels

This ministry matches volunteer families with families in need of assistance for gifts and food for Christmas.









Correctional Ministry

This ministry seeks men and women over 18 to provide pastoral care to those incarcerated in the jails in the diocese area. Volunteering include fellowship, bible study, R.I.C.A. programs as well as providing religious materials and educational supplies.




Gabriel Project

Sponsored by the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston, is a program developed to offer hope and aid to any woman facing a crisis pregnancy. When a woman comes to a Gabriel Parish, she will be provided with any help she may need to care for her unborn child.

Grace Disabiltity Ministry


Persons with disabilities are encouraged to participate in all parish liturgies and activities. This ministry offers cathechesis, spiritual support and social opportunities as well as invites and encourages participation in our church programs where they are welcomed and accepted into the full life of the Church.




Guatemala School Mission Ministry
The committee is entrusted with raising monies and the stewardship of that money for the teachers' salaries of Our Lady Of Guadalupe School in Chiche, Guatemala. The committee promotes parish support and mission awareness with events held during the year.



Hope Center Houston Ministry

Through collaboration with Hope Center Houston, this ministry enlists volunteers from the parish to provide dignity through hospitality by opening and staffing the Hope center twice per month, providing weekly hot meals to homeless and hosting drives and fundraisers that support the mission of this homeless day center.

Job Compass
Provide Catholic faith-based assistance to help parishioners navigate through job and career transitions, using informational events, consulting and individual mentoring and coaching.

KIDS Hope USA
Through this national church-based mentoring program, St. Ignatius partners with Kaiser Elementary School to provide one-on-one mentoring for at-risk students who so desperately need and deserve the love, care and attention of an adult.

Prayer Shawls
Within a prayerful setting, shawls and comfort mats for the homeless and sick are knitted and/or crocheted, blessed and given to those in need of healing or comfort.

Sandwich Makers
Provides lunches to the hungry of Casa Juan Diego. For many of the recipients, it is their only meal for the day. Sandwiches are made by Sandwich makers in their homes on Sunday, Tuesday or Thursday. Drivers then deliver them to Casa Juan Diego on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. The commitments by Sandwich Makers or Drivers are approximately once a month

Second Family
A minisrty of caring people offering friendship, help, encourgement, and hope to home bound parishioners. Along with rides to mass, the goal of this ministry is to lighten the burden of the care-giver by providing temporary relief and assist the home bound to live in their home as long as possible.

Sending Out Servants (S.O.S)
This ministry is a Catholic Lay Mission Outreach through which men, women and youth 16 and over, can have a profound one week cross-cultural experience with the Mayas who live in the mountains of Guatemala. There is a Home Team and a Travel Team.

Adult and Family Mission Ministry
Organizes family and adult mission trips to the colonies of the Rio Grande Valley to help the elderly, infirm and poor with home repairs and other charitable works.

Last updated 9/30/2019*