Sharon Ehrenkranz is the director of parish life at St. Laurence Catholic Church in Sugar Land, a suburb of Houston, Texas.  In serving this large parish of over 7,700 families, she draws from previous experience as executive director for the Sugar Land Cultural Arts Foundation and ten years of sales management at Procter & Gamble.  She and her husband, Doug, and their three children moved from Ohio to Texas, which they have been happy to call home for 24 years.  She jumped right into parish life at St. Laurence, with its beautiful liturgies and thriving ministries, 11 years ago. She was hired as communications director, which was, at the time, the first job of its kind in the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston.  Today, she is responsible for parish life and ministry coordination, stewardship, and communications and is active in the Stewardship Networking Group and serves on the board of directors of the Catholic Strengths and Engagement Community.