Project

Area Faith Community Implementation

Organization

St John's/St Gertrude's

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Description

One of the purposes of the area faith community model is to provide quality ministry throughout the diocese. Quality ministry can become a reality if parishes prayerfully and reflectively assess their ministries on a regular basis, determining: what is done well, what needs improvement, and what may need to be initiated or revised. These elements and ministries will serve as a guide and criteria for goal setting when beginning the area faith community process.

THE AREA FAITH Community MODEL

The new model will reconfigure many of the present parishes and small parishes into “area faith communities.” An AREA FAITH COMMUNITY is comprised of two or more parishes and small parishes and entrusted to the care of pastoral leaders, involving or requiring increasing levels of collaboration.

There can be different ways of sharing authority and collaborating on ministries. For example, one can be shepherded by a pastor who works with a staff that directs the area faith community ministries. Another example is an area faith community guided by a group of pastoral leaders, each appointed to a specific parish but exercising shared authority and collaborating on pastoral ministries