Parish Staff - Pastoral Planning

I'm on the Parish Staff
I have the job of making sure everything gets done!
We have some resources to help you do that!

The laity
derive their
right and
duty to work
in the
apostolate
directly from
Christ
himself...lay
people
should work
in close union
with their
pastors.
Decree on the
Apostolate of the
Laity
#3, 10
from Vatican II in
Plain English

The presence
in the Church
[of men and
women
religious] has
been
essential in
the building
up of the
Reign of God.
Decree on the
Renewal of Religious
Life
#1
from Vatican II in
Plain English

Dear Member of the Parish Staff,

You truly do have one of the most important but difficult jobs in the
church today! You have a long job description loaded with important duties,
and at the same time, the folks in your parish mainly expect you to do all the
work! It's darn tough to get all your work done and at the same time
implement a program for renewal.

We hope you've read Dreams and Visions. It was written with you in mind
and it really demonstrates how much easier your own work will be once that
new fire is lit in the parish. And that new fire, as you know, comes not from a
program or new-fangled way of doing ministry, but it flows directly from people
whose hearts are touched by conversion, by deepening their encounter
with Christ. People who are in Christ - and who experience that in a Catholic
setting - are your backbone and lifeblood at the parish. This is the secret to the
renewal of the church!

First of all, if you're just getting started as a parish, begin here. This is a FREE
pastoral planning tool designed with your parish in mind! It comes complete
with worksheets, a step-by-step process for planning, and a guide to doing
"listening prayer" to be sure the Spirit leads you!

If you are ready to train, inform, and share all this with the whole parish, click
here for PowerPoint presentations and other materials.

This is also the web site which supports Dreams and Visions: Pastoral
Planning for Lifelong Faith Formation. Every link mentioned in that text is
found here.

So once again, we thank you for everything you do for your parish. We're
glad you're making use of this support web site, and please let us know if there
are other ways in which we can help you!

Good wishes for your ministry,

Bill Huebsch
and the Pastoral Planning Crew

Grad Courses for You or Your Staff
There are grad courses being offered in two excellent Catholic Universities
which provide complete background and practical solutions
for anyone working in this emerging ministry today!
Contact Diane Blair at Loyola University New Orleans.
Or Brian Schmisek at the University of Dallas.
Click above to send them a note of inquiry. Ask for the course called
"Models of Catechesis"
taught by Bill Huebsch.

Grad Courses
There is also a fully graduate degree program
in another excellent Catholic College:
Boston College.
This program is operated under the watchful eye
of Drs Tom Groome and Jane Regan.
For more information, click here.
Clicking here will take you to the Boston College web site.
Be sure to keep this web site's address in your favorite things
in order to return here easily!

Resources offered
on this site

Share
your
parish
story!

If you have
been working
with whole
community or
lifelong
catechesis or
faith
formation
and you have
a story to
tell, we want
to hear it! Go
to this page
and send us
your story!
Give us the
link to your
parish web
site at the
same time,
please.

And thanks!

Pastoral Planning
A step-by-step guide:
Dreams & Visions:
Pastoral Planning
for Lifelong Faith Formation
A new book which includes a
chapter outlining those
all-important Planning Team
Meetings.

Training
How to teach your parish
about lifelong formation
including excellent PowerPoint
presentations to download and
use, complete with presentation
notes.

Implementation
How to state and sustain faith
sharing throughout the parish using
the
Question of the Week
With free prayer sheets.

Prayer Services
to accompany faith sharing.
You can download and use these
in 5 minutes!

Outlines for adult
or intergenerational
Faith Gatherings
linked to your children's textbook
series.

Outlines for adult
B ible Studies
which are in plain English!
Download each session and get all
you need in one item.

Complete plans for
Parish Based Retreats
in several practical scheduling
formats.

Background Material
All the current books
you need to better understand
lifelong formation, plus free articles
you can download, copy, and use.

Vatican II
Lots of strong resources
to help you teach about the
Council.
We are approaching the 50th
Anniversary of the date on which
John XXIII called Vatican II: Jan
25, 1959.

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