| Presentations |
The following are copies of PowerPoint presentations used in the pastoral planning process. Using either the links to the left or those below, you can load and view a presentation by using your left mouse button or you can use your right button and either save the presentation to your own computer or launch the presentation in a separate window.
Introduction to Pastoral Planning for the New Millennium: Phase Two
This presentation provides an introduction to the overall planning process and includes material on purpose of pastoral planning, diocesan mission and values, and a vision of a vibrant faith community.
Background Information on the Diocesan, United States, and World-Wide Church
This presentation focuses on changes in the Church over the last 30 years. Projections of active diocesan priests are included as well as projected changes in the roles to which priests will be assigned. Recent changes in the configuration of parishes in the Diocese are also profiled. The final sections presentation information on the number of priests relative to the number of Catholics and parishes through the various geographic areas of the world-wide Church.
This presentation contains a generic overview of the configuration planning process used the the 36 planning groups as part of PPNM2.This presentation is a sample of the presentation used for information specific to a planning group. The sample is for the Brighton planning group.
The presentation is based on the work of Loughlin Sofield and Carol Juliano in their book, Collaboration: Uniting Our Gifts in Ministry.
This is a presentation by Bill Pickett to the 2003 Priests' Convocation. It served as an introduction to the concept of generation as developed by William Strauss and Neil Howe in Generations: The History of America's Future, 1584-2069. This is a graphics-rich presentation and takes minutes to open. It may be more efficient to download to your hard disk and then open.
Designing the Church of the Future
This a presentation by Bill Pickett to the Young Catholic Leadership group in March 2003. It contains contextual information about the Diocese and the issues the Church faces now and in the future. For the purposes of discussion, it presents three possible future scenarios: mega churches, regional communities, and lay led communities.
