Ray and Tricia moved to Ventura in 1994 and have been at OLA for the past 15 year. They have three young adult children who are all products of OLA elementary school. Two children graduated from SBHS and one from Villanova HS in Ojai. They began their involvement at OLA through their children’s participation with school activities. Ray and Tricia both grew up in Catholic families and have received years of Catholic education each. Tricia has been teaching full and part time at OLA school since 1995. She and Ray are Eucharistic ministers and have also been very active with the church youth group over the years. Their children have participated as peer leaders and choir members. Ray has been serving on the Parish Council for the past two and a half years. They say, “Getting involved at OLA was never a question for us. We knew this is what God wanted from us and it fit with our activities as parents. Our involvement with the OLA Parish has grown as our family has grown. When the children were young our activities seemed to center around the school. Now that they are grown, we have become more focused on church activities.” “For us, stewardship is an opportunity. It helps us give back to God for all the blessings that we have received. It also helps us to avoid becoming “complacent” in our spiritual journey.”