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    • Summer 2023 | Children & Youth Offerings
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      • Sacramental Formation (Grade 2)
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      • Confirmation Prep (Gr. 7-8)
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      • St. Gertrude Church Choirs
      • Music FAQs

The Team

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Laura Potter

  • Hometown: Logan, OH
  • Occupation: Coordinator of High School Ministry at St. Gertrude Church
  • Year Joined Core: 2022
  • Favorite Saint: St. Anthony of Padua, St. Vitus, Immaculate Heart of Mary
  • Favorite Bible Verse: "There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear." - 1 John 4:18; "Love one another intensely from a pure heart." - 1 Peter 1:22
  • Hobbies: Eating gelato at La Grassa, being in the sun, leading worship on guitar, rollerblading, trying to snuggle with my Lionhead Rabbit (Sister Theodore)

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Walter Plummer

  • Hometown: Cleveland, OH
  • Occupation: Coordinator of Youth Formation at St. Gertrude Church
  • Year Joined Core: 2021
  • Favorite Saint: St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Moses the Black
  • Favorite Bible Verse: "One thing I ask of the LORD; this I seek: To dwell in the LORD’s house all the days of my life." - Psalm 27:4
  • Hobbies: Reading all the things, playing guitar, snacking

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Paul Carlson

  • Hometown: Baltimore, MD
  • Occupation: Software Engineer
  • Year Joined Core: 2009
  • Favorite Saint: St. Philip Neri
  • Favorite Bible Verse: "We work together for your joy, for you stand firm in the faith" - 2 Corinthians 1:24
  • Hobbies: Wielding a mallet (aka, setting up 9-square), building anything that Walter needs, hanging out with John Fussner

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Naomi Coutinho ​

  • Hometown: Findlay, Ohio
  • Occupation: Chemistry Grad Student at UC
  • Year Joined Core: 2020
  • Favorite Saint: St. Maria Goretti
  • Favorite Bible Verse: "Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give it to you. Do not let your hearts be troubled or afraid." - John 14:27
  • Hobbies: Baking, ukulele, succulents, going on walks, and ice cream

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Tom Dorsey

  • Hometown: The Booming Metropolis of Marion, Ohio
  • Occupation: Sales Rep
  • Year Joined: 2014
  • Favorite Saint: Padre Pio
  • Favorite Bible verse: “Lord, I am not worthy to have you enter under my roof; only say the word and my servant will be healed.” - Matthew 8:8
  • Hobbies: Telling corny dad jokes

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Colleen Osterling​

  • Hometown: Kalispell, MT
  • Occupation: RN at Bethesda North Hospital
  • Year Joined Core: 2017
  • Favorite Saint: St. Claire, St. Therese of Lisieux, St. Maria Faustina, and St. Thomas Aquinas
  • Favorite Bible Verse: ". . . but the centurion said, 'Lord, I am not worthy for You to come under my roof, but just say the word, and my servant will be healed.'" - Matthew 8:8
  • Hobbies: Rafting, hiking, camping, reading, enjoying the outdoors, knitting, and spending time with family and friends

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Anne Marie Allen

  • Hometown: Sinking Spring, PA
  • Occupation: Replenishment Planner at The Hershey Company
  • Year Joined Core Team: 2021
  • Favorite Saint: St. Francis de Sales 
  • Favorite Bible Verse: “For I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.” - Jeremiah 29:11
  • Hobbies: Spending time with family, hanging out with friends, singing, hiking, running, shopping

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Katie LoBosco

  • Hometown: Crystal Lake, IL
  • ​Occupation: Music Therapist
  • Year Joined Core: 2021
  • Favorite Saint: St. Faustina
  • Favorite Bible Verse: “You formed my inmost being; you knit me in my mother’s womb. I praise you, because I am wonderfully made; wonderful are your works! My very self you know.” - Psalm 139: 13-14
  • Hobbies: Getting to know others, songwriting, dancing, and snuggling up with my cats, tea, and a good book!

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Josh Moore

  • Hometown: Seneca, South Carolina
  • Occupation: Team Lead at Target
  • Year Joined Core: 2021
  • Favorite Saint: St. Jerome
  • Favorite Bible Verse: "I consider that the sufferings of this present time are as nothing compared with the glory to be revealed for us." - Romans 8:18
  • Hobbies: I like to play video games, cooking, and spending time learning more about the Catholic faith (listening to podcasts/ talks/ and reading) 

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Carl Jakubowski

  • Hometown: Parma, OH (7th biggest city in Ohio by population)
  • Occupation: Musician
  • Year Joined Core: 2021
  • Favorite Saint: St. Joseph, St. Albert the Great, St. Thomas Aquinas, Pope St. John Paul II
  • Favorite Bible Verse: He said to them, “The harvest is abundant but the laborers are few; so ask the master of the harvest to send out laborers for his harvest.” - Luke 10:2
  • Hobbies: Playing and writing music, video games, camping/hiking/kayaking, driving around with nowhere to be, and hanging with the squad

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Chris Turner

  • Hometown: Perrysburg, OH
  • Occupation: Seminarian for the Diocese of Toledo (God willing, will be ordained to the priesthood June 2024
  • Year Joined Core: 2022
  • Favorite Saint: St. Paul
  • Favorite Bible Verse: "I have told you this so that you might have peace in me. In the world you will have trouble, but take courage, I have conquered the world." - John 16:33; "A thief comes only to steal and slaughter and destroy; I came so that they might have life and have it more abundantly." - John 10:10; "For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor present things,* nor future things, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord." - Romans 8:38-39; "The LORD has sought out a man after his own heart to appoint as ruler over his people because you did not observe what the LORD commanded you.” - 1 Sam 13:14; "See, I am doing something new! Now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? In the wilderness I make a way, in the wasteland, rivers." - Isaiah 43:19
  • Hobbies: Skiing, hiking, climbing mountains, and being bad at golf

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Pablo Guzman-Gomez

  • Hometown: Cincinnati, OH
  • Occupation: Supply Chain Network Analyst at The Kroger Co.
  • Year Joined Core: 2022
  • Favorite Saint: St. John Chrysostom, St. Paul
  • Favorite Bible Verse: “Be watchful, stand firm in your faith, be courageous, be strong.” – 1 Corinthians 16:13
  • Hobbies: Weightlifting, running, reading
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  • About
    • Mission
    • Team
    • Church Architecture
    • Media
    • Register
    • Give
    • Employment
    • 100th Anniversary
    • Strategic Planning Process
  • For Adults
    • Wanting to Become Catholic
    • Looking for a Prayer Group
    • Desiring Formation
    • Seeking to Serve
    • Needing Support
  • For Children & Youth
    • St. Gertrude School
    • Summer 2023 | Children & Youth Offerings
    • Age 3 – Grade 3 (CGS) >
      • Sacramental Formation (Grade 2)
    • Grades 4 – 6 (Family Faith)
    • Grades 7 – 8 (Junior High) >
      • Confirmation Prep (Gr. 7-8)
    • Grades 9 – 12 (L'alto: High School)
    • Liturgical Ministries for Youth >
      • Choir: Schola Cantorum
      • Choral Scholar Program
      • St. Anne and the Child Mary Guild
  • Sacraments & Worship
    • Mass & Confessions >
      • Sunday Worship Programs
      • Mass Intentions
    • Infant Baptism
    • Confirmation
    • Matrimony
    • Anointing of the Sick
    • Funerals & Bereavement
    • Eucharistic Adoration
    • The Music Program >
      • St. Gertrude Church Choirs
      • Music FAQs