I Want A Strong Curriculum We want to implement faith formation for every age and stage of life. And we want it to be faithful to church teachings, practices, and customs! |
| Dear Parish Curriculum Developer, Thank you for everything you offer your parish. It is very important in preparing curriculum for youth, young adults, and adults of every age, that whatever we do be completely faithful to the Church. Faith formation is not the time to argue over Church teachings. It's not the time for a teacher to give his or her opinion about the Church. Rather, it's the time for us to explore together the depth and beauty of Catholic thought, practice, and custom. It's a time to integrate Catholic teachings into our lives, and learn to live more faithfully. As a key person responsible for this in your parish, we believe it is necessary and good for you to be in harmony with your pastor. Don't try to work without his full knowledge and consent. For purposes of planning adult faith formation that is complete and systematic, we provide several free tools on this site. To see them, click here. We know that many Catholics today simply are no longer fully engaged with their parishes. There are many reasons for that, but all of them point to a huge need, which is for each parish to develop a pastoral plan which
So you see, it's no small thing we're doing! Every parish really does need a plan to become more effective in providing lifelong learning. To help you, this web site is loaded with resources. First of all, if you're just getting started as a parish, begin here. For planning tools, click here. To see the library of works giving the principles and practices of lifelong faith formation, click here. If you are ready to train, inform, and share all this with the whole parish, click here for PowerPoint presentations and other materials. This is also the web site which supports Dreams and Visions: Pastoral Planning for Lifelong Faith Formation. Every link mentioned in that text is found here. So once again, thanks for everything you do for your parish. We're glad you're making use of this support web site, and please let us know if there are other ways in which we can help you! Good wishes for your ministry, Bill Huebsch and the Pastoral Planning Crew |
| Lay people have the obligation to constantly develop a more profound grasp of their Christian faith. Constitution on the Church #37 In the end, the Christian layperson must be to the world what the soul is to the body. Constitution on the Church #38 from Vatican II in Plain English |
| Resources offered on this site |
| Pastoral Planning A step-by-step guide: Dreams & Visions: Pastoral Planning for Lifelong Faith Formation by Bill Huebsch A new book which includes a chapter outlining those all-important Planning Team Meetings. Sold in bundles to save you 20% New Book! Welcome the People! Ways to Gather & Nourish Adult Catholics by Jim Smith A parish team workshop-in-a-book. Helps you create the team you want for lifelong formation. Sold in bundles to save you 20%. New book! Good News Parish Leadership Trust-Building Guidelines, Tools, Ideas by Michael Papesh This rich resource helps you form your parish team with the very same pastoral theology in which we all believe. Sold in bundles to save you 20% Training How to teach your parish about lifelong formation including excellent PowerPoint presentations to download and use, complete with presentation notes. A series of FREE articles Reproduce these to put in your bulletin or to use for team & committee training. They're all in plain English! Into the Fields: Catechist & Ministry Formation Create a "religious community" with formation, prayer, & study right in the midst of your parish. This is the engine of lifelong faith formation, the foundation in your parish. Implementation How to start and sustain faith sharing throughout the parish using the Question of the Week With free prayer sheets and suggestions for training and use. A guide for using Growing Faith A powerful resource for doing adult faith formation in the parish. It's the Catechism in plain English! También es disponible en español. Communal Prayer for Parish Councils & other groups to accompany faith sharing. You can download and use these in 5 minutes! Rooted in the Second Vatican Council. Outlines for adult or intergenerational Faith Gatherings linked to your children's textbook series. Outlines for adult Bible Studies which are in plain English! Download each session and get all you need in one item. Complete plans for Parish Based Retreats in several practical scheduling formats. |