Sister Regina Rokosny, OSF is a member of the School Sisters of St. Francis, Pittsburgh.  With us since 1995, she directs and organizes our finance administration and generously assists staff and volunteers with administrative duties for smooth operations of the retreat house.

Mary Jane Dinan, serves as emeritus Board member and since 1990 coordinates Public Relations & fund raising for SFRH which is essential for future life.  She creates brochures and press releases for our programs, edits the News Notes and keeps our name in the public eye.

Fr. Miles Pfalzer, OFM serves in all of the sacramental ministry.  He has spent over 60 years in priestly ministry as pastor in our Catholic parishes. His quick wit and precise style of preaching have made him a popular friar among the people visiting the retreat house chapel.

Brother Ed Demyanovich, OFM works with retreat house ministries and helps to coordinate maintenance responsibilities.  He ministers in spiritual direction and gives talks for the retreats.  His mild mannered way always makes him very approachable.

Brother Ed Skutka, OFM has been ministering at Saint Francis Retreat House since the summer of 1971.  Many of his duties include kitchen chores, porter duties, the recycling center, and the Food Pantry outreach.  His kindness and quiet spirit have touched the hearts of our volunteers and retreatants for many years.

Brother Mark Ligett, OFM  hails from Ohio and entered the Franciscan order soon after graduation from high school and professed his Solemn Vows as a Friar in 1975.  He holds a Bachelor’s in Religious Studies from Mount St. Joseph College and a Masters in Theology from St. Meinrad School of Theology.  Brother Mark has been an elementary and high school teacher, a missionary in the Appalachian mountains of Southeast Kentucky, done formation work with young friars in initial formation and prior to coming to St. Francis Retreat House, spent three years in a Franciscan House of Prayer in the Missouri Ozarks.  Here at St. Francis, he is part of the retreat team, monitors the Gift Shop and also works in music ministry.

Brother Scott Obrecht, OFM  is a member of the Franciscan Retreat Team. He presently serves as Retreat Team Coordinator and the Franciscan Friar liaison to the St. Francis Retreat House Board of Directors and the Lay Advisory Council. Before coming to the retreat house in June 2010, he spent eighteen years as director of the St. John the Baptist Province Mission Office in Cincinnati. Having lived and worked in the Southwest with Native Americans on the Navajo and Pueblo reservations, among the Hispanic community and on the Island of Leyte in the Philippines he was well prepared to be involved in the care of missionaries, fundraising and public relations.