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Dear Sacred Heart Community,
The Core Team is celebrating its one-year anniversary at Sacred Heart! This team of parish leaders spent 2010 leading Sacred Heart in building its Strategic Plan for Development. Now that our plan is in place, the Core Team is going through a time of transition. We are gearing up to take our plan from PAPER to PEOPLE! We have said goodbye to some of our original Core Team members who are moving on to serve in other areas of parish life at Sacred Heart, and we are welcoming some new members to the Core Team as we move forward in 2011.
Special thanks to our outgoing Core Team members for their service and dedication!
Kelly Skogen Diane Ytuarte Norman Johnson Nancy Tuttle Matt Johansen Mike Kubat Rich Perreault Ryan Buchele Julie Conway Judy O’Neil
Welcome to our new and returning* Core Team members:
Larry Johnson Vicky Driscoll Brian & Dorothy DeVos Cathy Malecha Deb Wobschall Pat & Barb Haberman Gerri Fritz Kevin Riha Sam & Christine Baidoo Dave Reller *Joe Fritz Bernie & Ann Gaytko *Deb Perreault *Jack Johnson Wayne & Mary Dankert *Fr. Marty Schaefer *Jim Foley, Chair *LeAnn Dahle *Helen Kingsley *Sr. Lois Erpelding *Val Spies
The Core Team will form and lead three distinct teams to implement the
priorities of our parish plan. Those teams will focus on 1) Welcoming,
2) Engagement, and 3) Fiscal Development. Many parishioners at Sacred
Heart have already expressed an interest in serving on an Implementation
Team.
The first meeting for the Implementation Teams will be held on
Tuesday, February 22nd from 6:00 – 7:00 pm in the Parish
Center.
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Upcoming Parish Development Meetings
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"Launch the Vision"
Questions regarding the material can be directed to any core team member or Fr. Marty at your convenience. If you are at all interested in participating on an Implementation Team or wish to find out more about the Core Team activities please contact Fr. Marty or a core team member.
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Vatican II closed in1965 with
the introduction of some major changes in the practice of our Catholic faith.
The most obvious change was toward the use of local language instead of Latin in
the liturgy.
This step began a subtle shift from a Clergy centered, sometimes mysterious,
Church toward the inclusion of laity in liturgy. Some felt the shift as
foreign, while others saw it as an opportunity to become more involved.
Prayer became more meaningful and participation in the liturgy just seemed to
make more sense.
Change comes slowly to large institutions! The shift to English was
relatively easy, but the involvement of the laity took time. The role of
the parish priest has always had many facets with the most important being the
spiritual health and growth of all members. Responsibilities of managing
the operations of the parish, although ultimately that of the pastor, has
generally moved to local leadership over the past 40 years. To aide in
this transition the Universal Church has established approved guidelines
for roles and responsibilities, common practices for operations and governance
for shared financial support to keep a level of uniformity across the
worldwide church. Pastors have migrated from 'owning' all the duties,
toward collaborating closely with the laity to coordinate church activities, while spending
more of their time in the spiritual role and somewhat less in the operations
role.
Here at Sacred Heart that transition has been moving along quite well. The
establishment of the parish counsel, Board of Education, Finance Council and now
the Stewardship Council has moved us from a pastor centric focus to a
healthy cooperation between religious and laity in the life of the parish.
People in a variety of ministries have always been working in the background at
Sacred Heart, but we are moving quickly toward greater numbers of engaged members to grow the lay
involvement and total parish
stewardship of our membership.
In late 2008 several members of Sacred Heart and Father Marty attended a seminar
in the Cities to learn about a successful organization working in the ministry of
helping parishes grow Total Parish Stewardship and Development. A vision of a 'warm
and inclusive' parish was presented, where many more members are working together
each adding their strengths to the life of the parish.
Growth in community and spirituality make it easier for all who choose to
participate. Parish life just makes sense for more.
Just over a year of
prayer, research and planning led to our working with Institute for
School and Parish Development (ISPD).
Their initial activities began on January 17, 2010 when Stephanie Greenwood
visited Sacred Heart to begin a ten month effort to help us create a
structure for identifying needs and establishing plans to make greater strides
in Total Parish Stewardship and Catholic Development.
A core team had been working in the background to get this process rolling and
are incorporated into the process used by ISPD to help facilitate the activities
here at Sacred Heart. This will not be a one time year long process and
should not be seen as a 'flavor of the month' project. It must be a
continuous improvement set of tasks that renew annually becoming a fabric of our
spiritual and social life. The outcome of the first year will be the
establishment of the process to identify needs and the method to prioritize and
act to improve those identified areas. The work to develop an
infrastructure necessary to continuously communicate with and invite
input from all members with meaningful action plans along with a
strategy and a base of parishioners to keep the process alive has begun.
This is indeed OUR process with Sacred Heart personality and member driven
goals, not of a few, but of ALL. With the help of the Holy Spirit and the
cooperation of Sacred Heart members we will be rewarded with a more vibrant,
inclusive and warm parish life.
Current: Fr. Martin Schaefer, Joe Fritz joedfritz@yahoo.com 507-835-2110; Deb Perreault rperreault@gofast.am 507-835-7940; Jack Johnson jack.johnson1@gofast.am 507-835-5629; Jim Foley jimpat@gofast.am 507-835-1605; LeAnn Dahle shschool@hickorytech.net 507-685-2129; Ann Gaytko aelise@fnbwaseca.com; Bernie Gaytko gaytko@fnbwaseca.com; Brian and Dorothy DeVoss sportsfamily8@hotmail.com; Cathy Malecha tmalecha@mchsi.com; Deb Wobshall j.wobschall@mchsi.com; Larry Johnson ltjinc@gmail.com; Wayne Dankert wayne.dankert@gmail.com; Mary Dankert mary.r.dankert@gmail.com; Vicky Driscoll vicky.driscoll@courts.state.mn.us; Sam and Christine Baidoo skbaidoo@umn.edu; Dave Reller davalre@hickorytech.net; Barb and Pat Haberman bphaberman@yahoo.com; Kevin Riha kdriha@hotmail.com; Gerri Fritz - Development Volunteer Gerri_Fritz@yahoo.com 507 835-2110;
Past: Bob Lenertz, Kelly Skogan, Chris Harris, Nancy Tuttle, Diane Ytuarte, Ryan Buchele, Matt Johansen, Mike Kubat, Norm Johnson, Judy O'Neill, Julie Conway
December 2009: Bulletin Insert
January 2010: Bulletin Insert Interview Letter
February 2010 First ISPD Report Input Letter
March 2010: Input Session Report
April 2010: Survey Questions
June 2010: Final Survey Report
October 2010: Final Report and Recommendations
Upcoming Development Meetings
2011
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Core Team Emmaus Room 7PM |
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| Jan. 11, 2011 minutes .pdf | |||
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