Our Lady of Fatima Church, Karachi

The Dominic Savio Choir/Club[6] in 2010 was headed by Alan Goveas. There are about 20 members in the choir, the majority of whom are school children. The 9.00 am masses on Sundays are reserved for the Dominic Savio Choir. Apart from this, they sing for weddings and funerals.

The Dominic Savio Choir encourages and coordinates the participation of the faithful by singing common hymns which the congregation are well versed with. They also sing at big hotels during the Christmas season or at the Pakistan American Cultural Center (PACC). The choir raises funds by calling for donations, through secret collection amongst members, Christmas bazaars, and concerts, to cover their expenses such as transport and printing of hymn books.

The Legion of Mary is a lay Catholic apostolic organization founded in Ireland by a layman, Frank Duff, in 1921.[7] The purpose of the organization is personal sanctification through active apostolic work. It has spread throughout the world and is very active in Africa, Asia, Australia and the USA. Each parish group is called a Praesidium and is composed of a president, vice president, treasurer, secretary and remaining members. The group is usually involved in house visitations, hospital visitations and visits to institutions. Members of the group are active during Advent and Lenten seasons when they contact neighborhood churches in the different areas of the parish.[8]

The Fatima Senior Choir ensures that Mass each Sunday evening is complemented by hymns that enhance the spiritual element of worship during the Eucharistic Celebration. In addition to Sunday's, it has been a long-standing custom for the choir to lead the midnight services for Christmas, New Year, and Easter each year. The choir also participates in parish events, such as concerts, fairs, outings and dances, oriented towards encouraging an air of communal oneness within the parish.[9]

The Society of Vincent De Paul[10] is composed of a Council General - Paris, National Council - Pakistan, Regional Council - Karachi, and Conference at the parish level. There are eight members in the Our Lady of Fatima Conference who continue until they leave or die. The conference holds meetings weekly and engages in home visitations, distribution of rations, medical aid, school fees, food projects, and Christmas hampers and pecuniary aid. Their fund-raising programs include secret collections at meetings, box collection placed in the church, junk sales, sale of food, donations from benefactors, and legacy gifts.

The Eucharistic Ministers are composed of lay members of the parish. They are usually involved in distributing and administering the Holy Eucharist at mass and to the sick.

There are twelve altar boys who serve from the time they receive Holy Communion right up to adulthood.

There are about 25 members in the Lectors Group, the majority being female. Anyone over the age of thirteen is eligible to join the group. The members of the group take turns doing reading based on a monthly roster.

The Neocatechumenate is a ministry dedicated to adult faith formation within the Roman Catholic Church, established following the Second Vatican Council. It is dedicated to "a post-baptismal catechesis in the form of the catechumenate", i.e. a process similar to the ritual preparation for baptism in the early Christian church. It was initiated by the Spanish painter, Francisco (Kiko) Argüello, in the early 1960s.

The Parish Pastoral Council serves as a means of communication between the clergy and laity of the parish. The council identifies the needs of the parish and acts upon them. It encourages involvement of the parishioners in all phases of parish work.

The council functions according to the spirit of Vatican II and according to the guidelines of the Pastoral Directives of the Archdiocese of Karachi.

The security and ushers group provide assistance in a number of situations. Whenever there are festivals, functions, or heavy attendance at mass on special days, the security members are active at the gate and in the compound to ensure that peace prevails throughout such events. They help seat the parishioners, and provide for extra seating. They also ensure that people proceed in an orderly fashion to receive the Eucharist.

In 1991, the Intercongregational Commission set up by Pope John Paul II, proposed a new plan to deal with the scarcity of priests around the world. That plan was applied on the Redemptoris Mater Missionary Seminaries[11] which prepare presbyters for the New Evangelisation, in accordance with the Neocatechumenal Way.