In August, six sessions were held to train two parishioners from each parish who facilitated parish meetings in September and early October to obtain concrete, specific suggestions on how to best implement the six pastoral priorities that were gleaned from the Speak Up Sessions.
Each parish was asked to submit the two suggestions for each pastoral priority to the Diocese’s Office of Pastoral Planning. After suggestions were sent in by all parishes, a committee consolidated them into a format of goals and strategies to be proposed, discussed and recommended for Bishop’s approval at a diocesan-wide Assembly (see below) which was held December 9, 2006.
These will then be incorporated into the diocesan and parish planning process that began in January, 2007.