Mr. Tim is at the center of the Youth Ministry Program.  He coordinates the Middle school and Senior High school programs and is an integral part of  the Wednesday Group's meetings as well.  He stands ready to listen, to help, to plan, to lead, and to participate.

Tim Janiszewski was born in Baltimore, Maryland and raised in Pasadena, where he attended St. Jane Frances School and then Chesapeake High School, graduating in 1987. He began attending Our Lady of the Chesapeake with his parents when it was still a mission back in the late 1970's.

After graduating high school, Tim attended Penn State, graduating in 1991 with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Civil Engineering. He worked as a consulting engineer for 6 years in Pittsburgh, PA and Gaithersburg, MD.  In 1993, Tim began volunteering with the High School Youth Ministry.  Father Rafferty offered Tim a position as Pastoral Associate in Youth Ministry in 1997.  After much prayer, reflection, and consultation with his wife, Tim accepted the position and left engineering to come work at the church.

Tim was married here at OLC in 1995 and has two sons that keep him busy and smiling.  He and his family live in Ellicott City.  He enjoys exercising, racquetball, golf, and water skiing; but since he is married with children, he never gets to do any of that "stuff".  So he enjoys working on his house, trying to complete his lovely wife's never ending "honey-do" list, and spending time with his sons (soon they'll be old enough to do that "stuff" with their dad).

Tim has three goals for the religious development of our youth:  
to foster their relationship with Christ, 
to encourage their participation in the Parish community and the general community, 
and to help them to enjoy themselves as they search for peace, happiness, and the truth. 

He takes his commitment to these goals and our youth seriously, and enjoys what he does thoroughly.