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Staff Retreat

8/20/2016

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The parish staff gathered for a working retreat August 15-17. Those present were: Leif Kehrwald, Fr. Elwin Schwab, Mayra Torres, Kathryn Bernert, Julie Hommes, Fernando Madrid, and Gabe Triplett.
 
Fr. Jack Mosbrucker facilitated our discussions for Day 1 and Day 2. (Day 3 was spent coordinating the parish calendar for the 2016-17 program year.)
 
Here is a brief summary of our discussions for Day 1 and Day 2.
 
Issues
We identified issues that need to be addressed this year. Our list included (not prioritized):
  • Calendar and parish space bookings
  • Baptism Prep – who will staff
  • Call to Protect – who will staff
  • Pastoral Council – staff presence at meetings
  • Multi-cultural issues – translation, other
  • Staff communication
  • Parish communication
  • Faith formation across the lifecycle
  • Relationship building
  • Facility rental issues
  • Music
 
As we discussed these issues, we took the attitude that we wanted to question any and all assumptions about how to do effective parish ministry in the 21st century.
 
Five Years
We then brainstormed factors, characteristics, and hopes for St. Charles and the Cully Neighborhood five years hence. After brainstorming, we prioritized issues. Two issues emerged quite strongly:
  1. Lifelong faith formation for the whole parish community; faith formation for adults, youth, children, and families.
  2. Liturgy that reflects the current makeup of the community and the neighborhood
 
We then spent in-depth time talking about faith formation at St. Charles. We listed the program items that reflect the current situation:
  • Faith formation typically is focused on children & youth
  • Atrium classroom
  • Sacramental prep
  • Children’s liturgy of the Word
  • Confirmation
  • Youth Groups (Jr & Sr high)
  • Adult Ed series
  • RCIA/RCIC
  • Latino Bible Study
 
Next Steps
With these items in mind, we developed some “target” statements; goals that we should strive for:
  • Faith formation is lifelong, there is no graduation
  • Faith formation is multi lingual and multi cultural
  • Faith formation is both gathered and non-gathered – facilitated by becoming more digitally enabled
  • Faith formation can be aligned around a single, rich theme so that all ages receive more or less the same message at the same time
  • Faith formation is integrated with other ministries of the parish, particularly liturgy
 
Leif has worked with many parishes and churches on developing a whole community approach to faith formation that is lifelong, intergenerational and digitally enabled. He will bring a detailed plan and timeline to the parish staff by Aug 31. The staff will then bring ideas and recommendations to the Pastoral Council and other key leadership groups.
 
The staff will also engage in a similar discussion process to address the second key priority around liturgy.
 
Stay tuned! We’ll keep you up in the loop on our thinking and planning.
1 Comment
Marilee Hankins
8/25/2016 05:23:40 am

I am excited and impressed, thanks

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    • Voice of the Community >
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    • Homily
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    • Care 4 Creation >
      • Understanding Natural Gas
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