Peer Council:

What is Peer Council? It is behind the scenes group that spearheads the planning and carrying out of the events that take place through Catholic Student Center.

What do they do? They hold weekly meetings to plan events for the Center, community service activities, and retreats for students who want to expand and share their faith.

Why are they important to the Catholic Center? The Peer Council helps to foster a welcoming environment and is responsible for making sure that the programs go as planned.

Who are members of the Peer Council? Peer Council members are students at WCU who are and have been active members of the Catholic Center for at least one semester.

Your current Peer Council members are (left to right)

• Ali Dougherty

• Lisa McClure

• Elayna Castillo

• Thomas Roberts

• Molly Fraser

What does it mean to be on Peer Council?

"Peer Council has been an amazing experience for me. It has helped me become more outgoing, and also has helped me with decision making. Not only peer council, but also the whole Catholic Center experience has helped me grow in my faith. There are awesome relationships with the people here, and I feel like we are very much a family." ~Dana

"Peer council has allowed me to contribute in a meaningful way to the Catholic Center. Being on council has helped me to feel at home at WCU.  The Catholic Center is my home away from home." ~Amanda

"[The Church] is called Catholic, then, because it extends over the whole world, from end to end of the earth, and because it teaches universally and infallibly each and every doctrine which must come to the knowledge of men, concerning things visible and invisible, heavenly and earthly, and because it brings every race of men into subjection to godliness, governors and governed, learned and unlearned, and because it universally treats and heals every class of sins, those committed with the soul and those with the body, and it possesses within itself every conceivable form of virtue, in deeds and in words and in the spiritual gifts of every description." --St. Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures 18:23 [A.D. 350]