Summit Recommendations
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At the National Ministy Summit, held April 2008 in Orlando Fl, over 1200 participants engaged in a process designed to identify recommendations for the development of future excellence in pastoral leadership in the Catholic Church.
Working on a tight timetable and employing state-of-the-art technology, lay and ordained pastoral leaders from fifty states and six foreign countires engaged the six research areas of the Emerging Models Project to develop practical recommendations that can be implemented now.
Once the ideas were generated, the recommendations representing the major themes were given to the participants to vote on. Each person was able vote for three ideas in each catagory and ten ideas from the overall list. This way the top ideas in each research area were surfaced, as well as the overall recommendations.
The six areas of research included:
- Pastoring Multiple Parishes
- Parish Life Coordinators and sacramental Ministers (Canon 517.2)
- Young Adults: The Next Generation of Parish Leaders
- Implications of the Emerging aModels Studies for Human Resources
- Implications of the Emerging Multicultural Diversity for Pastoral Leadership
- Best Practices of Parish Leadership
At the Summit, Bishop Blase Cupich, Emerging Models Project Adivsor and Summit Keynoter, invited the participants to place the process of developing recommendations in the context of the consultations called for by the bishops in their document, Co-Workers in the Vineyard of the Lord.
It is the hope of the Project Partners that this conversation, one of many, will help further the formation of excellence in leadership in today's changing parish structures.
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