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PARISH PASTORAL PLAN
PRIORITY AREAS: INTENTS & GOALS
PRIORITY 1: ‘Welcoming and Inclusive Community’
Intent:Promote participation, inclusion and belonging
Goal 1: Develop welcoming initiatives for current and new members of our
community.
Goal 2: Promote active participation.
Goal 3: Promote an environment of inclusion and belonging.
PRIORITY 2: ‘Education and Formation’
Intent: Encourage and support ongoing learning and formation.
Goal 4: Develop an understanding of ‘sharing leadership’.
Goal 5: Support and resource faith formation.
Goal 6: Promote and encourage a variety of faith formation opportunities.
PRIORITY 3: ‘Reaching Out’
Intent: Boldly proclaim Christ present in the world.
Goal 7: Proclaim the Good News of Jesus in words and actions.
Goal 8: Stir a personal and communal response to the need for justice.
GOALS, STRATEGIES & VISION
Breaking Goals into Strategies
PRIORITY 1: Welcoming and Inclusive Community
Intent: Promote participation, inclusion and belonging.
Goal 1: Develop welcoming initiatives for current and new members of our community.
- Implement a consistent approach to ‘welcome’ in both churches.
- Evaluate current practices and research uccessful initiatives implemented in other parishes.
Goal 2: Promote active participation
- Promote initiatives in the parish.
- Provide reasons to participate
Goal 3: Promote an environment of inclusion and belonging
- Resource an inclusive environment.
- Invite and support participation.
Results we want to see:
Individuals identify as belonging to a Catholic
community, are known and feel valued. |
PRIORITY 2: Education and Formation
Intent: Encourage and support ongoing learning and formation.
Goal 4: Develop an understanding of ‘sharing leadership.
- Provide an explanation of the new Diocesan structure for the Lakes Catholic Parish.
- Provide opportunities for interested parishioners to discuss the concept of sharing leadership.
Goal 5: Support and resource faith formation.
- Offer support to encourage people to attend faith formation.
- Offer financial support to individuals to pursue study beyond parish initiatives.
- Research possible activities offered by other parishes or organizations.
Goal 6: Promote and encourage a variety of faith formation opportunities.
- Continue to promote existing educational and formation opportunities.
- Encourage interested families to work with formation team to identify areas of interest.
- Advertise widely through the parish and wider community.
- Engage the wider community through their social and sporting activities.
- Canvas the needs of existing students.
- Encourage interested parishioners to work with faith formation team.
- Acknowledge and celebrate attendance.
Results we want to see:
Raised awareness of and participation in faith
formation opportunities and an enlivened community. |
PRIORITY 3: Reaching Out
Intent: Boldly proclaim Christ present in the world.
Goal 7: Proclaim the Good News of Jesus in words and actions.
- Engage in interfaith dialogue.
- Support and engage parish in the work of the catechists.
- Engage with parents in our schools.
- Reach out to the sick, elderly and isolated.
- Reach out to singles, divorcees, widows and widowers.
- Reach out, engage and encourage youth.
Goal 8: Stir a personal and communal response to the need for justice.
- Gather stakeholders to discern future activities.
- Identify and raise awareness of social justice issues in our community.
| Results we want to see:
Active, vibrant, engaged and caring communities that live the message of the Gospel; a voice for the voiceless. |
