Diocesan Pastoral Council - Saturday, May 27 & June 24, 2017

AM Presentation: Communications

"Without fear we must set sail on the digital sea, facing into the deep with the same passion that has governed the ship of the Church for two thousand years. We want to qualify ourselves by living in the digital world with a believer's heart, helping to give a soul to the Internet's incessant flow of communications." Pope Benedict XVI

Gabrielle Marion
Website: Communications Section
Telephone: 204-594-0277
Email: communications@archsaintboniface.ca

• Powerpoint Presentation
• Text (notes) to accompany presentation - upon request only.
• Handouts:

1. Group Discussion: New Media - Resistance to Change

2. New Media, Resistance to Change - Pros & Cons for using New Media

3. Group Discussion:

a. Communications Parish Inventory                               

b. What are our needs in these or other areas? Our priorities?

4. Parish Action Plan for Pastor & PPC to Implement a Communications New Media Outreach (NeMO)

5. Parish Action Plan: Where do I Start?

6. Social Media Response Plan

7. Resources

PM Presentation: Comprehensive Youth Ministry

"Youth ministry is the response of the Christian community to the needs of young people and the sharing of the unique gifts of youth with the larger community." 

USCCB, Renewing the Vision, p.1

Youth and Young Adult Ministry

Website section
Brochure

Mireille Grenier
Telephone: 204-594-0278
email: mgrenier@archsaintboniface.ca 

• Power Point Prensentation
• Resources
  • We Are Stronger Together: A Vision of Youth Ministry, CCCB
  • You Give Them Something to Eat: A Resource and Guide for Pastoral Planning in Youth Ministry in Canada
  • Youth Group Model vs Comprehensive Youth Ministry
•  Exercises
  
  • Youth needs and Parish resources / Youth gifts and Parish needs
    
  • Comprehensive Youth Ministry Planning Grid
    
• Suggested resources*
  
  • Renewing the Vision - A Framework for Catholic Youth Ministry. USCCB
  • Effective Practices for Dynamic Youth Ministry, Tom East
  • The Vision of Catholic Youth Ministry - Fundamentals, Theory, and Practice, Robert J. McCarty, DMin
  • Youth at Worship, CCCB

*Some of these resources are available at the Diocesan Resource Library in September 2017.

Prayer

1 Corinthians 3: 7-11 

A Future Not Our Own

 It helps, now and then, to step back and take a long view. The kingdom is not only beyond our efforts; it is even beyond our vision.

We accomplish in our lifetime only a tiny fraction of the magnificent enterprise that is God's work. Nothing we do is complete, which is a way of saying that the Kingdom always lies beyond us.

No statement says all that could be said.
No prayer fully expresses our faith.
No confession brings perfection.
No pastoral visit brings wholeness.
No program accomplishes the Church's mission. No set of goals and objectives includes everything.

This is what we are about.
We plant the seeds that one day will grow.
We water seeds already planted, knowing that they hold future promise. We lay foundations that will need further development. We provide yeast that produces far beyond our capabilities.

We cannot do everything, and there is a sense of liberation in realizing that. This enables us to do something, and to do it very well. It may be incomplete, but it is a beginning, a step along the way, an opportunity for the Lord's grace to enter and do the rest.

We may never see the end results, but that is the difference between the master builder and the worker.

We are workers, not master builders; ministers, not messiahs. We are prophets of a future not our own.

AMEN

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