Energize individual and communal prayer (through silence, meditation, discernment, God’s presence, and a deeper relationship with God). This will be evidenced by the improved spiritual vitality of the parish, an increasing number of testimonials to the power of prayer, and an increase in the celebration of the sacraments by June 30, 2007.
Involve 2500 people representing each generation of the parish in a comprehensive, integrated Catholic faith formation process by June 30, 2007.
Invest every parish member in nurturing, supporting, and encouraging the spiritual welfare of those in relationship with our faith community. This will be achieved by retention of parishioners, participation in ministries, and an influx of new parishioners. It will also be evidenced by an average score of 4.25/5 points on the Spiritual Community questionnaire by June 30, 2007.
Engage 40% of parish members in all ministries, through the stewardship of time and talent, to serve an increased number of parishioners and the wider community by June 30, 2007.
Engage 100% of parish to provide financial contributions, recognizing all that we have is given by God, in order to meet prioritized operational expenses, staged debt reduction, and planned future capital expenditures by June 30, 2007.
Continuously improve timely and accurate communications on progress toward Parish goals using redundant, multi-media, and multi-channel forms of communication as measured by a Communications Survey by June 30, 2007.
- Promote prayer by identifying a specific day (e.g., Tuesday) as a parish day of prayer.
- Teach parishioners, using multiple learning modes, how to pray by acknowledging different types of prayer, obtaining testimonial feedback, and encouraging formal prayer ministries.
- Develop training, self assessment, and appraisal programs for staff, ministry team members, and volunteers.
- Educate our youth spiritually with focus on worship, discipleship, and the fullness of their Catholic faith.
- Develop and implement Catholic lifelong learning and spiritual development opportunities.
- Identify and implement a program to welcome, provide hospitality, and offer social opportunities, ensuring that all populations are addressed.
- Designate Parish Council representatives to the vicariate in order to maximize the resources of individual parishes within the vicariate.
- Educate and engage our youth in outreach and social ministry programs.
- Assess time and talent of the parish annually.
- Create an expectation and implement processes for parishioner participation in ministry.
- Provide clear and accurate financial accounting for the church and school to parishioners.
- Create a plan to reduce debt by establishing finance goals.
- Develop plans and designs to construct facilities and develop land to better support storage needs, small group meeting areas, and youth serving groups.
- Identify and implement communications techniques that best serve the parish, with focus on effective top-down, intergroup, and bottom-up communication.
- Develop and implement a communications plan to present parish initiatives and accomplishments to parishioners and the wider community.