The Uniting in Heart pastoral plan for our diocese has already had some impacts on our pastorate and has created some necessary structural changes to help position us better for the future. We have already begun the initial steps in planning our three-year pastoral goals for our Pastorate. I am excited to announce the members of this team who will be helping me to get ideas and feedback and reach out to our community and help me to communicate with our three parishes.
The Core Team is made up of:
Fr. Joshua Bennett – Pastor
Marie Oliver – Pastorate Director of Operations
Angela Nagel – Principal of St. Augustine School
In addition, we are aided by Molly Clark from the Diocese as our Pastoral Consultant who provides expertise and resources to help us in our continued implementation of the Uniting in Heart 2030 Pastoral Plan.
From our parishes we have:
St. Augustine: Kevin Benner, Jana Drone, John Shank
Sacred Heart: Jeff Demerly, Kevin Goodwin, Sarah Hall, Abby Kilmer
Sts. Peter and Paul: Lucy Illingworth
During this first phase of planning, this Vision Planning Team will serve as our de facto Pastorate Council until the Vision Planning Team’s work is concluded, at which point we will officially constitute a Pastorate Council for the work of implementing the three-year pastoral plan and doing a yearly review of the plan to track our progress and make updates as necessary.