I'm Pastor of a Protestant Church Welcome! We all face the same challenges! |
| Believers everywhere still long...for all Christians to live together in peace. We long to live together as one family, with the whole word as our peaceful dwelling place, united in one visible Church. Only then will the truth of the Gospel shine forth clearly! Decree on Ecumenism #1 from Vatican II in Plain English |
| Dear Pastor, Welcome! We're glad to see you here! Whether or not you're Catholic, I'm sure you face the same complicated challenges as everyone else. Thank you for everything you offer your congregation. The church absolutely depends on leadership from people like you. In fact, we need more of you! We know that many Christians today simply are no longer fully engaged with their churches. There are many reasons for that, but all of them point to a huge need, which is for each congregation to develop a pastoral plan which
So you see, it's no small thing we're doing! As Pastor, or as a Congregational Leader, the role you play is essential in establishing a pastoral plan for more effective lifelong learning. To help you, this web site is loaded with resources. First of all, if you're just getting started as a church and you don't mind sorting through resources with a slightly Catholic edge to them, begin here . If you are ready to train, inform, and share all this with the whole church, click here for PowerPoint presentations and other materials. These resources come to you as Word or PowerPoint documents, which you can adjust and adapt to your particular church's terminology and categories. If you're ready to start implementing a pastoral plan for lifelong faith formation, check out these resources. Click on any underlined item below to see the resources we offer:
This is also the web site which supports the powerful new book, 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 congregation. Let's keep praying and working for the day that we might all be one! 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 |
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| Share your church's story! If you have been working with whole community or lifelong catechesis or faith formation and you have a story to tell, we want to hear it! Go to this page and send us your story! Give us the link to your congregation web site at the same time, please. And thanks! |
| 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. |