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Parish Mission Statement
We are the Church, the People of God, gathered under the special patronage of Mary, the Immaculate Conception. As Catholics of the Dardenne area in the Archdiocese of St. Louis, in communion with the Bishop of Rome, we are called and chosen to proclaim the Lord Jesus Christ through our lives. With joy we strive to fulfill our Baptismal calling by prayer and worship, teaching and sharing our faith, serving others, and fostering unity in diversity.<br>
How am I going to live out the mission of the parish, my baptismal mission?
To live my baptismal calling and advance the mission of my parish the
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GOAL ONE: WORSHIP
Conversion through Prayer and the Sacraments.
"I received from the Lord what I handed on to you...do this in remembrance of me." (1 Cor 11:23-24)
Priority 1: (1.1) As a Eucharistic community, deepen our relationship with Jesus Christ through engaging worship.
Action Step 1: (1.1.1) Increase Sunday Mass attendance by 5% in 2012, by an additional 3% in 2013, and an additional 2% in 2014.
Lead Agent: Pastor along with Parish Priests and Worship Committee
Timeline: Mass count each October
Cost: Minimal
Action Step 2: (1.1.2) Establish a comprehensive program to instruct the faithful about the Mass in connection with the implementation of the New Roman Missal.
Lead Agent: Associate Pastor along with Pastor and Worship Committee
Timeline: Autumn, 2011, 2012
Cost: Minimal
Action Step 3: (1.1.3) Plan for a second mid-morning Sunday Mass to promote and allow for increased Mass attendance.
Lead Agent: Director of Liturgy along with Staff and Worship Committee
Timeline: Autumn, 2011
Cost: $2,000.00 - $4,000.00
Action Step 4: (1.1.4) Establish a Worship Committee to review liturgical ministries, to set new goals and procedures, to benchmark new practices, and to develop a systematic means of evaluating the effectiveness of our parish celebration of the liturgy.
Lead Agent: Director of Liturgy along with Pastor
Timeline: Autumn, 2012
Cost: $0
Action Step 5: (1.1.5) Provide an annual retreat for all those involved in various liturgical ministries.
Lead Agent: Director of Liturgy along with Worship Committee
Timeline: Autumn, 2012, 2013, 2014
Cost: $1,000.00 yearly
Text Box: Priority 2: (1.2) Promote life-long spiritual growth through participation in
Sacraments, prayer, and devotional activities.
Action Step 1: (1.2.1) Increase participation in parish devotions (such as Blessing Baby Jesus, Easter Food Blessing, Corpus Christi procession etc.) by 5% each year.
Lead Agent: Director of Liturgy along with Worship Committee and Parish
Priests
Timeline: 2012, 2013, 2014
Cost: $0
Action Step 2: (1.2.2) Increase participation in Eucharistic Adoration by 10% in 2012, by an additional 10% in 2013, and by an additional 15% in 2014.
Lead Agent: Eucharistic Adoration Captains along with Director of Liturgy
Timeline: Winter, 2012, 2013, 2014
Cost: $0
Action Step 3: (1.2.3) Promote and schedule more frequent parish reconciliation opportunities especially during Advent and Lent, including priests from other parishes.
Lead Agent: Parish Priests and Worship Committee
Timeline: Lent and Advent, 2012, 2013, 2014
Cost: $1,000.00 yearly
Action Step 4: (1.2.4) Increase collaboration of our full time school, PSR, and youth ministry with regard to our overall parish worship related activities.
Lead Agent: PSR Director, Parish School Principal, Youth Minister, and Director
of Liturgy
Timeline: Autumn, 2012
Cost: Minimal
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Worship Committee (per Pastoral Plan)
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Cenacle Prayer Group
Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion
Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion for Full-Time School Masses
Eucharistic Adoration
Greeter
Lector
Mass Captains
Ministry of Danced Prayer
Music Ministry (all ages)
Resurrection Choir (for funerals)
Server
Usher
GOAL TWO:EVANGELIZATION
To Proclaim Jesus Christ in Word and in Action.
"Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you." (Mt 28:18-20).
Priority 1: (2.1) Promote a spirit of evangelization in all parish activities.
Action Step 1: (2.1.1) Establish an Evangelization Committee.
Lead Agent: Pastor along with Parish Council
Timeline: Autumn, 2011
Cost: $0
Action Step 2: (2.1.2) Support Archbishop Carlson’s "Catholics Come Home" Initiative by participating in training provided by the archdiocese and organizing activities at the parish.
Lead Agent: Evangelization Committee along with Staff
Timeline: Autumn, 2011
Cost: Minimal
Action Step 3: (2.1.3) Through the establishment of a Welcome Committee develop protocols, processes, and coordination of interaction with new members.
Lead Agent: Evangelization Committee along with Pastor and Parish Council
Timeline: Autumn, 2012
Cost: $1,000.00
Action Step 4: (2.1.4) Create a buddy system for newly married, parents of newly baptized, newly widowed, and new RCIA converts.
Lead Agent: Evangelization Committee along with Pastoral Associates
Timeline: Autumn, 2012
Cost: Minimal
Action Step 5: (2.1.5) Educate all leaders of parish ministries regarding opportunities to evangelize within their particular ministry by offering workshops and educational materials.
Lead Agent: Evangelization Committee along with Pastor and Parish Staff
Timeline: Autumn, 2013
Cost: Minimal
Priority 2: (2.2) Foster in each parishioner a life-long search to grow in a
personal relationship with Jesus Christ and a deeper understanding of the Catholic Church.
Action Step 1: (2.2.1) Host at least two parish missions in the next three years.
Lead Agent: Director of Liturgy along with Parish Priests and Evangelization
Committee
Timeline: 2012, 2013, 2014
Cost: $5,000.00 yearly
Text Box: Action Step 2: (2.2.2) Organize neighborhood rosaries twice a year (October and May) in 40% of neighborhoods by May 2012, in 50% of neighborhoods by 2013, and in 60% of neighborhoods by 2014.
Lead Agent: Evangelization Committee
Timeline: May and October, 2012, 2013, 2014
Cost: $1,000.00 yearly
Action Step 3: (2.2.3) Conduct a healing service once a month.
Lead Agent: Parish Priests along with Archdiocesan Office of Charismatic
Renewal
Timeline: Autumn, 2012
Cost: $200.00
Priority 3: (2.3) Optimize the use of all means of communication to promote
the mission of the parish.
Action Step 1: (2.3.1) Establish a Social Communication Committee to coordinate the use of media in support of the mission of the parish.
Lead Agent: Pastor along with Director of Information and Communications
Technology
Timeline: Summer, 2012
Cost: $0
Action Step 2: (2.3.2) Develop a master plan for parish communication, with structures and protocols to keep parishioners and others connected to one another, to parish events, and to promote its mission.
Lead Agent: Social Communication Committee
Timeline: Fall, 2012
Cost: $2,000.00
Action Step 3: (2.3.3) Establish a branding commonality that unifies the identity of Immaculate Conception Catholic parish through language, signage, symbols, and text.
Lead Agent: Social Communication Committee along with Communication
Director
Timeline: Winter, 2013
Cost: TBD
Action Step 4: (2.3.4) Expand the use of the Internet as a means of evangelization and communication for parish organizations and the parish community as a whole.
Lead Agent: Social Communication Committee along with Evangelization
Committee
Timeline: Autumn, 2013
Cost: TBD
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*(new) Evangelization Committee (per Pastoral Plan)
*(new) Social Communications Committee (per Pastoral Plan)
*(new) Welcome Committee (per Pastoral Plan)
50+ Group
ICD Men's Club
Knights of Columbus
Life in the Spirit
MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers)
Neighborhood Evangelization Volunteers
Christ Renews His Parish (CRHP)
Catholics Returning Home
Serra Club / Vocation Awareness
That Man is You
GOAL THREECATHOLIC EDUCATION
To Renew Our Commitment in all its Forms.
"[They] came upon him in the temple sitting in the midst of the teachers listening to them and asking them questions. All who heard him were amazed at his intelligence and his answers." (Luke 2:41-47)
Priority 1: (3.1) Establish a parish pre-school program.
Action Step 1: (3.1.1) Conduct a pre-school feasibility study.
Lead Agent: Parish School Principal along with Pastor and School Board
Timeline: Spring, 2012
Cost: TBD
Action Step 2: (3.1.2) Establish a Pre-School Planning Committee.
Lead Agent: Pastor along with Parish School Principal, School Board, and
Building and Grounds Committee
Timeline: Winter, 2012
Cost: $0
Action Step 3: (3.1.3) Open a pre-school.
Lead Agent: Pastor along with Parish School Principal and School Board
Timeline: August, 2013
Cost: TBD
Priority 2: (3.2) Serve and support the religious education needs of active and
inactive parishioners.
Action Step 1: (3.2.1) Generate increased financial resources for the Catholic education of parish children by 10% per year.
Lead Agent: Financial Hardship Committee along with Pastor and
Stewardship Committee
Timeline: Winter, 2012, 2013, 2014
Cost: Minimal
Action Step 2: (3.2.2) Increase parishioner enrollment in Paul VI Catechetical Institute courses by 10% per year the next three years.
Lead Agent: Director of PSR, Parish School Principal, and Evangelization
Committee
Timeline: Autumn, 2012, 2013, 2014
Cost: $0
Action Step 3: (3.2.3) Provide one additional yearly intergenerational religious education opportunity in connection with the full time parish school and PSR program.
Lead Agent: PSR Director, Parish School Principal and Coordinator of
Religious Education
Timeline: Autumn, 2012, 2013, 2014
Cost: $1,000.00 yearly
Action Step 4: (3.2.4) Sponsor three additional educational events per year of general interest to the adult parishioners and the wider community.
Lead Agent: Parish Staff along with the assistance of the Parish Priests
Timeline: Autumn, 2012, 2013, 2014
Cost: $1,000.00 yearly
Action Step 5: (3.2.5) Consider additional religious education staffing for adult faith formation.
Lead Agent: Pastor along with Parish Staff and Finance Council
Timeline: August 2013
Cost: $40,000.00
Priority 3: (3.3) Strengthen the marketing for all educational programs to
maximize enrollment continuously.
Action Step 1: (3.3.1) Establish a Marketing and Enrollment Management Committee to develop a comprehensive marketing plan for the promotion of education programs to maximize continued full participation in the parish school, PSR program, and youth programs.
Lead Agent: Social Communication Committee along with Pastor, PSR Director,
Parish School Principal, School Board, Youth Minister
Timeline: Spring, 2013
Cost: $5,000.00
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*(new) Pre-School Committee (per Pastoral Plan)
Bible Study
Catechesis of the Good Shepherd
Home & School Organization
Infant Baptism Preparation Mentor Couple
IQ-Adult Education (committee members)
Marriage Preparation Mentor Couple
Volunteer at Full-Time School
Parish School of Religion (catechist/volunteer)
RCIA (adult sponsors)
RCIA (teen sponsors)
School Board (by election/invitation)
Small Faith Sharing Groups
Sunday Liturgy of the Word for Children (catechist)
Sunday Pre-School (catechist)
GOAL FOUR: SERVICE
Service of those in need, and promotion of social justice.
"My brothers, what good is it to profess faith without practicing it? Such faith has no power to save one, has it? If a brother or sister has nothing to wear and no food for the day, and you say to them, Goodbye and good luck! Keep warm and well fed," but do not meet their bodily needs, what good is that? So it is with the faith that does nothing in practice. It is thoroughly lifeless." (James 2:14-17)
Priority 1: (4.1) Promote respect for the dignity and sacredness of human life
in all its forms from the beginning of life until death.
Action Step 1: (4.1.1) Create a culture in the parish that reverences human life as the major social justice issue and that works to defend life at all stages—especially when it is most vulnerable. Increase the number of parishioners involved in pro-life ministries by 5% in 2012, an additional 3% in 2013, and an additional 3% in 2014.
Lead Agent: Prolife Committee along with Pastor and Parish Priests
Timeline: Winter, 2012, 2013, 2014
Cost: Minimal
Action Step 2: (4.1.2) Increase parish participation in the annual March for Life in Washington D.C. to three buses in 2013, and four buses in 2014.
Lead Agent: Prolife Committee along with Pastor and Parish Priests
Timeline: Winter, 2012, 2013, 2014
Cost: $0
Action Step 3: (4.1.3) Increase attendance of local witness for life events by 10% for each of the next three years.
Lead Agent: Prolife Committee and along with Pastor and Parish Staff
Timeline: Winter, 2012, 2013, 2014
Cost: $0
Action Step 4: (4.1.4) Consider hosting archdiocesan wide annual Birthright event at ICD in 2014.
Lead Agent: Prolife Committee
Timeline: Spring, 2014
Cost: $3,000.00
Priority 2: (4.2) Promote direct involvement of parishioners in a broad
spectrum of social justice issues.
Action Step 1: (4.2.1) Establish a Social Justice Committee.
Lead Agent: Pastor along with Parish Council
Timeline: Winter, 2012
Cost: $0
Action Step 2: (4.2.2) Identify strategies and obtain resources in order to increase the number of Hope Center and COPE clients served by 3% per year, each of the next 3 years.
Lead Agent: Social Justice Committee along with Pastor and Parish Staff
Timeline: Summer, 2012, 2013, 2014
Cost: $10,000.00 yearly
Action Step 3: (4.2.3) Motivate parishioners to live up to their baptismal call of service within and beyond the parish by forming them in the social teachings of the church, so as to increase the number of parishioners involved in service ministries by 5% in 2012, an additional 3% in 2013, and an additional 3% in 2014.
Lead Agent: Social Justice Committee along with Parish Priests and Parish Staff
Timeline: Autumn, 2012, 2013, 2014
Cost: $0
Action Step 4: (4.2.4) Host an annual day of recollection for all involved in service ministries.
Lead Agent: Social Justice Committee
Timeline: Winter 2013, 2014
Cost: $500.00
Priority 3: (4.3) Promote parishioner involvement in bringing the Gospel
values to the public arena regarding social justice issues.
Action Step 1: (4.3.1) Increase registration of parish households for Missouri Catholic Conference Citizen’s Network, where they will receive Action Alerts and newsletter correspondence, to 10% of households in 2012, an additional 3% in 2013, and an additional 3% in 2014.
Lead Agent: Social Justice Committee along with Pastor
Timeline: Spring, 2012, 2013, 2014
Cost: $0
Action Step 2: (4.3.2) Increase parishioner attendance to the Missouri Catholic Conference General Assembly each October in Jefferson City; enroll 50 attendees in 2012 and 10 more each in 2013 and 2014.
Lead Agent: Social Justice Committee
Timeline: Autumn, 2012, 2013, 2014
Cost: $0
Action Step 3: (4.3.3) Hold an annual assembly at ICD with a social justice theme
(similar to MCC annual conference).
Lead Agent: Social Justice Committee
Timeline: Spring, 2013, 2014
Cost: $3,000.00
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*(new) Social Justice Committee (per Pastoral Plan)
Health Committee
Pro-life Committee
C.O.P.E. (Congregation Offender Partnership Enterprise)
Emergency Meals
Funeral Lunch (worker)
Funeral Lunch (provide food)
Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion to Homebound/Nursing Homes
Visitors to Homebound/Nursing Homes
Prayer Chain
St. Vincent de Paul Society
GOAL FIVE:STEWARDSHIP
Stewardship of Our Time, Talent, and Treasure as Individuals and as a Parish.
"Those who have will get more until they grow rich, while those who have not will lose even the little they have" (Luke 25:29)
Priority 1: (5.1) Develop and implement a comprehensive parish Stewardship
program.
Action Step 1: (5.1.1) Form a Stewardship Committee to educate parishioners and promote the practice of responsible stewardship.
Lead Agent: Pastor along with Parish Council
Timeline: Winter, 2012
Cost: $0
Action Step 2: (5.1.2) Conduct a comprehensive survey of all current sources of revenue and the effectiveness of various approaches, including fundraisers, Sunday offertory and special collections.
Lead Agent: Stewardship Committee along with Finance Committee and Parish
Staff
Timeline: Autumn, 2012
Cost: $0
Action Step 3: (5.1.3) Catechize parishioners on the meaning of stewardship, including the sharing of time, talent and treasure so that stewardship in the parish becomes a way of life.
Lead Agent: Stewardship Committee along with Parish Priests and Deacons
Timeline: Autumn, 2013
Cost: $0
Priority 2: (5.2) Develop a comprehensive plan to provide additional facilities
and meet deferred maintenance needs, which would enable the parish to achieve its mission.
Action Step 1: (5.2.1) Establish Building and Grounds Committee with members having a diverse knowledge in building maintenance, construction, and fundraising.
Lead Agent: Pastor along with Parish Council
Timeline: Winter, 2012
Cost: $0
Action Step 2: (5.2.2) Assess, plan and budget for deferred maintenance items to assure functionally appropriate and well-maintained facilities.
Lead Agent: Building and Grounds Committee along with Finance Committee
Timeline: Summer, 2012
Cost: $0
Action Step 3: (5.2.3) Prioritize future building and grounds needs of our parish based on mission priorities, including consideration of Adoration Chapel, ball fields, courtyard, housing for additional clergy, parking, preschool, youth facilities, and deferred maintenance.
Lead Agent: Building and Grounds Committee along with Finance Council and
Stewardship Committee
Timeline: Spring, 2013
Cost: $10,000.00
Priority 3: (5.3) Recruit and orient parish volunteers for involvement and
service in various groups and parish ministries.
Action Step 1: (5.3.1) Increase the overall parishioner involvement in the parish by 5% each year as measured by the Time and Talent surveys.
Lead Agent: Stewardship Committee
Timeline: Autumn, 2012, 2013, 2014
Cost: Minimal
Action Step 2: (5.3.2) Establish a practice by which each CRHP team proposes one candidate for RCIA each August.
Lead Agent: CRHP Continuation Committee
Timeline: August 2012, 2013, 2014
Cost: $0
Action Step 3: (5.3.3) Consider the appointment of an Events Coordinator for the major parish fundraising events.
Lead Agent: Pastor along with Parish Council
Timeline: Winter, 2013
Cost: Variable
Action Step 4: (5.3.4) Train three more parishioners to be advocates for assisting parishioners in petitioning for Declaration of Nullity.
Lead Agent: Pastoral Associates along with Parish Priests and Archdiocesan
Tribunal
Timeline: Spring, 2013
Cost: Minimal
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*(new) Stewardship Committee (per Pastoral Plan)
*(new) Building and Grounds Committee (per Pastoral Plan)
Art and Environment (church decorating)
Archdiocesan Catholic Appeal (ACA) Committee
Chapel Cleaners
Church Cleaners
Go Green Committee
Green Thumbs
Parish Mailings
Parish Newsletter (interview/write)
Prayer Garden Maintenance
Prayer Shawl Ministry
Quilters
Technology Committee
Trade Skills/Handyman
GOAL SIX: YOUTH MINISTRY
Including Our Athletic Programs and Young Adults.
"At one point, children were brought to Jesus so that he could place his hands on them in prayer. Some people tried to keep the children away but Jesus said, "Let the children come to me. Do not
hinder them. The Kingdom of God belongs to such as these" (Matthew 19:13-14).
Priority 1: (6.1) Build a strong youth ministry program.
Action Step 1: (6.1.1) Increase the Youth Ministry participation by twenty youth per year.
Lead Agent: Youth Minister along with Core Team
Timeline: Spring, 2012, 2013, 2014
Cost: $5,000.00 yearly
Action Step 2: (6.1.2) Organize the Sunday evening Mass so that youth have a prominent place in participation and in leadership of the various ministries of this Mass.
Lead Agent: Youth Minister along with Director of Liturgy
Timeline: Spring, 2012
Cost: $0
Action Step 3: (6.1.3) Recruit, train and sustain three more core team members in their twenties and three more core members in their thirties by August, 2012.
Lead Agent: Youth Minister along with Core Team
Timeline: August, 2012
Cost: $2,000.00
Priority 2: (6.2) Promote vocations to the priesthood and consecrated life.
Action Step 1: (6.2.1) Establish a Vocation Committee.
Lead Agent: Pastor along with Parish Priests and Parish Deacons
Timeline: Winter, 2012
Cost: $0
Action Step 2: (6.2.2) Annually, organize each CRHP team to pray for a young adult candidate for a Religious Vocation.
Lead Agent: CRHP Continuation Committee
Timeline: Spring, 2012, 2013, 2014
Cost: $0
Action Step 3: (6.2.3) Promote Religious Vocations from the pulpit, in the Sunday bulletin, and in the Messenger, annually.
Lead Agent: Vocation Committee along with Pastor and Parish Staff
Timeline: May, 2012, 2013, 2014
Cost: Minimal
Action Step 4: (6.2.4) Develop and implement vocation awareness programs for
children, youth, young adults and adults.
Lead Agent: Vocation Committee
Timeline: Fall, 2012
Cost: $10,000.00
Priority 3: (6.3) Provide spiritual and social avenues for growth of the parish
youth programs.
Action Step 1: (6.3.1) Organize the teams in each sports season so that at least 25% of coaches attend at least one Sunday Mass with their team.
Lead Agent: Parish Sports Association along with Parish Priests
Timeline: Winter, 2012, 2013, 2014
Cost: $0
Action Step 2: (6.3.2) Promote the implementation of the established standards, protocols, and by-laws for all youth programs and for the parents of those involved in youth programs that will contribute to the spiritual growth of students, participants in ICD sports, parents, teachers, and coaches.
Lead Agent: Parish Sports Association and Youth Minister in collaboration
with Parish Priests and Archdiocesan Catholic Youth Council
Timeline: Winter, 2012
Cost: $0
Action Step 3: (6.3.3) Provide one additional yearly intergenerational opportunity in connection with our sports programs (e.g. father/son "baseball retreat").
Lead Agent: Parish Sports Association along with Parish Staff
Timeline: Summer, 2012, 2013, 2014
Cost: $5,000.00 yearly
Action Step 4: (6.3.4) Conduct annual day of recollection for all coaches.
Lead Agent: Pastor along with Parish Sports Association
Timeline: Autumn, 2012, 2013, 2014
Cost: $1,000.00 yearly
Priority 4: (6.4) Review and evaluate parish resources that serve the youth
ministry and the parish sports programs.
Action Step 1: (6.4.1) Improve the facilities and the capacity to advance programs available for the parish youth by considering facility upgrades including a new youth center, performing arts facility, baseball fields, soccer field lights, and an all-purpose court for the current gym
Lead Agent: Building and Grounds Committee along with Finance Council and
Parish Sports Association
Timeline: Spring, 2013
Cost: TBD
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Boy Scout Leadership
Cub Scout Leadership
Girl Scout Leadership
Sports Association Leadership/Coaches
Youth Ministry Volunteers
Vocation Chalice Program
Vocation Ministry
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