FINANCE/GOVERNANCE

Pastoral Plan

goals and objectives

I. To eliminate all debt by 2014 through a five year capital campaign and endowment disbursement after that.

A. Establish a structure to work each year in late Fall and throughout the year to steadily increase Sunday stewardship.

1. (Administrative Council)   Determine if the stewardship campaign should be framed on the council level or be a separate committee.  

2. (Administrative Council - School Ministry Commission) Establish a mechanism for internal marketing in the parish aimed, at least in part, toward increasing stewardship.

a. Study the relationship of the School Ministry Development Committee to Sunday stewardship.

b. Establish an appropriate mechanism for total parish internal marketing.

B. Begin a capital campaign in 2007-2008.

1. The pastor will personally visit the top 24% of the Sunday stewardship givers in the parish.   Completed: seven weeks.  

2. The campaign will be announced to the entire parish and a thorough publicity will be set in place at the end of seven weeks.

3. Fourteen persons the pastor visits will personally visit the next 30% of the Sunday stewardship givers in the parish, some 67 families.   Completed: four weeks.

4. Nineteen persons from the 67 families will personally visit all the families who give the parish over $1000 per year in Sunday stewardship, some 90 families.   Completed: four weeks.

5. Do three weekends of phone bank sessions to complete the campaign to all the parish.

C. Maintain the capital campaign throughout its five years.

D. Through increased stewardship and because of reduced expense, work to pay off the loans between 2012 and 2014.

II. To accomplish a complete financial review for establishing a sound structure for sustaining long-term viability in our ministry life.

A. Establish a structure for the parish that will allow it to finance a full ministerial life: worship, religious formation, pastoral care, justice and charity and administration.

1. Study the shape of each ministry and the staff structure necessary to maintain it.

2. Determine the priority costs in each ministry.

3. Settle in a model that works for the parish given its history, demographics and projected need.

4. Within this process establish a method for funding ongoing maintenance needs

B. Establish a structure that will allow the parish to finance the school ministry in a viable, sustainable way for the long run.

1. Tuition policy review

a. (School Ministry Commission)   Consider tuition: acceptable rates, limits and effect on enrollment and morale.

b. (Administrative Council)   Review SMC work and make recommendations.

2. Education Grant policy review

a. (Administrative Council)   Assess reasonable education grant disbursement within the budget process and in light of real expenses and family need.

b. (School   Ministry Commission)   Review AC work and make recommendation back to them.

3. "Subsidy" policy review.

a. (Administrative Council) Determine the reasonable percentage of Sunday stewardship allocated to the school relative to the sustenance of the other parish ministries.

b. (Administrative Council)   Creatively explore sources of school ministry funding outside the parish's Sunday collections.  

C. Review endowment growth and its use.

1. (Administrative Council)   Assess reasonable education grant disbursement within the budget process and in light of real expenses and family need.

2. (Administrative Council)   Assess reasonable capital expenditure for which the endowment might be used.

3. (Pastoral Council)   Review AC work and make recommendation back to them.

III. To accomplish a complete ministry review for establishing clear connections between them and the parish's mission (including intergenerational programming).     

A. (Pastoral Staff) Establish a commission around the ministries of Worship, Religious Formation, Pastoral Care and Justice and Charity.   Completed: two years

B. (Commissions)   Do a needs assessment in order to study ecclesial requirements for each ministry.

C. (Commissions)   Do a focus group process to determine parishioner opinion and a sense of parishioner need.

D. (Commissions)   Do a financial assessment of outlay for the needs assessed.

E. (Administrative Council)   Review Commission recommendations in the financial area, and make a recommendation to the Pastoral Council.

F. (Pastoral Council)   Review all recommendations and, in collaboration with Pastor and Pastoral Staff, give shape to the ministries.