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Discipleship Plan / Plan del Discipulado
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From 2022 - 2027 Holy Family Parish moves Forward Together By Committing Ourselves To…
Loving God By Deepening Our Relationship with Jesus Christ
- By preparing for the Plan by invoking the Holy Spirit in our Discipleship Prayer.
- Prayed periodically together at Mass
- Prayed daily by parishioners in their homes.
- Prayed by all ministries at their meetings.
- Timeline: Summer 2022
- By providing resources to help parishioners pray
- By encouraging participation in faith sharing groups (fall/Advent 2022)
- By creation of voluntary prayer partners (Advent 2022)
- By providing resources to help educate parishioners of all ages
- Create Parish Education Committee to coordinate and support education and catechesis for all members of the parish. (January 2023)
- Get more catechists for elementary and middle school religious education (August 2022)
- Create and collate online resources that parishioners can use to learn about & grow in their faith (Summer 2022)
- Provide regular in-person and age-appropriate gatherings for people to learn about & grow in their faith:
- Spanish workshops and mission (Summer 2022)
- Parish Mission in English (Lent 2023)
- Retreat Experiences (July 2023)
- Expand youth opportunities
- Catholic Youth Camp (July 2022)
- Holy Family Summer Youth Camp (July & August 2022)
- By creating a handbook for each sacrament/sacramental that can be received at the parish. Available in hard copy and digitally on the parish website, these handbooks will list the requirements and expectations for each sacrament/sacramental on the part of the individual and on the part of the parish.. (Ongoing)
- By preparing for the Plan by invoking the Holy Spirit in our Discipleship Prayer.
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Loving & Serving Others By Putting Our Faith Into Action
- By reflecting with parishioners on the importance of service through our:
- Time (our yearly commitment to spiritual growth and discipleship)
- Talent (our yearly commitment to serving others individually and corporately through church ministries)
- Treasure (our yearly commitment to financially support our parish)
- Timeline: ongoing
- By creating a ministry handbook that lists all our parish ministries and ways that we can serve our parish and the greater community. (September 2022)
- By continuing faith and service talks by parishioners at Mass (ongoing)
- By creating a more efficient process to connect parishioners interested in volunteering with the ministries available at the parish.
- By reflecting with parishioners on the importance of service through our:
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Loving Each Other by Becoming a United & Welcoming Parish
- By celebrating our identity as a multicultural and multilingual parish. (ongoing)
- By creating a parish social committee to hold regular social events for parishioners and the community (Fall 2023)
- By recreating the Welcoming Committee and redeveloping our welcoming process for new parishioners and those re-engaging with the parish. (Spring 2023)
- By creating a Holy Family Parish Pictorial Directory (Winter & Spring 2024)
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Regular Communication & Transparency with Parishioners
- By providing regular print, online, and social media communication about the Discipleship Plan and other events and activities at Holy Family Parish. (ongoing)
By creating a parish social media plan to spread the Gospel both to parishioners and non-parishioners who find us online or on social media. (ongoing) -
Becoming Financially Stable to Carry Our Faith to the Next Generation
- Through financial transparency to our parishioners and the Diocese of Lansing (ongoing)
- By creating of a parish endowment for building & maintenance expenses. (ongoing)
- By creating and implementation of a 4th quarter giving plan. (Fall 2022)