Fifth Sunday of Easter - John 13: 31-33a, 34-35 - Our call to radical love
Erin Gillard is a passionate young woman with a deep faith who seeks to empower other women. She works part time as a dietitian at Liverpool Hospital specialising in Gestational Diabetes, helping women make lifestyle changes that will positively impact themselves, their unborn baby, their family and their future.
Erin is passionate about sharing the love of God, and making known the depth of God’s love for others. To create spaces and places within Church communities where people are known, loved and have a strong sense of belonging, rooted in Christ’s love for them. She was privileged to be among the inaugural cohort for Leadership for Mission Program, graduating in 2020 with a Graduate Certificate in Theological Studies from the Australian Catholic University.
In 2019 Erin began serving on the Parish Leadership Team of St Mary MacKillop in Oran Park, Diocese of Wollongong and took up the role of Coordinator of Welcome and Engagement which she now undertakes in a volunteer capacity. Erin has had an active presence in ministry from the beginning of this parish in 2015 being involved in Family Ministry, Marriage Preparation, sacramental preparation and RCIA. Erin is a member delegate from the Diocese of Wollongong for the Plenary Council.
Being married to her husband Kiel and mother to her two young children, Amelia (8) and James (5) is Erin’s greatest source of joy, strength and inspiration to help the Catholic Church become all God calls it to be.
