"The biggest disease is not leprosy or tuberculosis, But rather the feeling of being unwanted." - Blessed Mother Theresa
 

Becoming a Welcoming Parish Process - Overview 

Becoming a welcoming parish is a process, not an event.  Since the circumstances of each parish in unique, there is no “one size, fits all” program for growing into a welcoming parish.  What follows is one possible process that a parish can employ to develop and implement a strategy to become a more welcoming parish.  That which follows are merely suggestions which need to be adapted to the lived circumstances of individual parishes.

Ideally, this process must come out of the felt need of the pastor to have his parish become a more welcoming community.  Parishes have a hard time transcending the limitations of their pastor’s, so without the pastor’s support, the potential success of this process is greatly restricted, perhaps impossible.

The basic steps to this process are:

1. Assemble and form a team.
2. Develop a communication plan.
3. Assess current reality.
4. Discern God’s vision.
5. Develop a plan for bringing God’s vision and reality into alignment.
6. Implement the plan, assess the results and continuous improvement.

Our booklet, "Company's Coming," explains this process in great detail, and provides you with most of the information you need to employ this process with minimal outside help.
 

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Last modified: 06/10/08