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"Co-Responsibility" Studied By Emerging Models Project
July 4, 2009
The co-responsibility of the entire parish, called "total ministering parishes" by the Project, called for by Pope Benedict XVI, and reitered by Bishop Gerald Kikanas at a gathering of the Leadership Roundtable, was studied by the Emerging Models Project.
A Rector and a Pastor Reflect on the National Ministry Summit
November 3, 2008
Seminary professor Rev. Richard Siepka and pastor Rev. Robert Jarboe attended the Ministry Summit and offer their reflections as part of a series of articles published in the Fall, 2008, issue of the Seminary Journal. Their insights reflect the contagious hope shared by Summit participants as they engaged possibilities for the future of their ministry.
Share the Summit Findings with the USCCB
August 28, 2008
In the top ten recommendations from the National Ministry Summit was the request that the Project partners share the findings of the Summit with U.S. bishops. To comply with this recommendations, a letter was sent to His Emminence, Cardinal George, President of the USCCB.
Top Summit Recommendations
July 25, 2008
Reflections on and presentations of the Summit recommendations continue. Many dioceses and pastoral leadership groups are working with the recommendations for future excellence of pastoral leadership. To support this development a form with the top recommendations has been created.
Workers in the Vineyard
by
Most Rev. Blase Cupich
July 16, 2008
In this important addition to the study of lay ecclesial ministry, Bishop Blase Cupich has reflected on his own experience and the extensive findings of the Project in developing this article on the theology of lay ministry.
Small Church Communities... and the National Ministry Summit
June 24, 2008
"The coming together of six national ministry organizations created something that no one of them could accomplish alone. Both the collaboration among the partners and the sheer number of participants are clear witness to how keen the interest is throughout the country about attending to the vitality of parish."
Ministry Summit Calls for a Culture of Accountability
May 20, 2008
“Create a culture of accountability through performance reviews for all ministers – ordained, religious and lay – that reflect the application of best practices of emerging models of parish leadership.”
That was one of the key recommendations from over 1,200 lay leaders, deacons, priests and bishops who gathered in Orlando last week for a national ministry summit on emerging models of pastoral leadership.
Ensuring That Parish Life Will Grow, Serve, and Prosper
by
Rev. Robert McCann
October 19, 2007
In the mid-twentieth century an individual's identity was strongly connected to one's parish. Parish life was the center and focus not only of one's faith, but also of one's social life. As we journey into the 21st century we recognize that parish life has undergone major transformation. Continued....
The Role of Lay Ecclesial Ministers in the Parish of the 21st Century
by
Bea M. Callery
October 8, 2007
What changes in both leadership and membership are parishes in the U.S. experiencing in the opening years of the 21st century? What types of pastoral leadership best facilitate vibrant parish life? How can national associations such as NALM collaborate with one another to serve the Church better now and in the future?
Pastoral Planners Working with Emerging Leadership Roles
by
Barbara Sutton, D.Min.
September 28, 2007
In April 2005, I had the opportunity to join approximately 100 other pastoral leaders--ordained, religious and lay ecclesial ministers in Atlanta, Georgia for the Emerging Models of Leadership Symposium. I remember the incredible energy that emerged around future models of leadership. There was no shortage of opinions about the "state of the church" and even more important was the abundance of hope for the church that people left with at the end of the symposium. In 2005, the National Ministry Summit seemed like a vague event. Today, it seems like an opportunity that is worth saving the dates for-April 20-23, 2008.
Several Great Reasons for Young Adult Leaders to be in Orlando in April 2008
by
Paul Jarzembowski
September 24, 2007
The National Summit is being convened because, at the crux of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, it is necessary for us to ask where we have been and more importantly, where the Catholic Church in America is going in the decades ahead of us. What new models of Catholic life, in parishes, dioceses, and elsewhere, are emerging today?
The Deacon's Emerging Pastoral Role
by
Deacon J.S. Anzalone, Ph.D.
August 22, 2007
As the number of deacons in the United States continues to grow, now numbering more than 16,000, the role of the deacon in the parish is growing and evolving. Their contribution to the emerging roles of parish pastoral leadership is being studied by the Emerging Models Project
National Ministry Summit and Human Resource Personnel
by
Thomas Schroeder
July 31, 2007
When one thinks about it, ministry is very labor intensive. Whether it is in responding to the needs of our youth, providing education and catechesis, serving the poor or providing the sacraments...all that we do in ministry depends on who we have to do it..... (continued)
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Ministry Summit Participants Address the Future
May 8, 2008
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.
National Ministry Summit on Emerging Models of Pastoral Leadership
May 6, 2008
“Create a culture of accountability through performance reviews for all ministers – ordained, religious and lay – that reflect the application of best practices of emerging models of parish leadership.”
That was one of the key recommendations from over 1,200 lay leaders, deacons, priests and bishops who gathered in Orlando last week for a national ministry summit on emerging models of pastoral leadership.
Unprecedented Ministy Summit Calls for Action
May 2, 2008
Some 1,200 priests, deacons, lay ecclesial ministers, and vowed religious took part in the National Ministry Summit in Orlando. The three-day Summit, convened by six national Catholic organizations intent on addressing changes in U.S. parishes, employed a collaborative process that yielded recommendations that the sponsors will study and begin to implement.
Ministry summit–goers see diverse leadership as a key to church’s future – but don’t see it in themselves.
April 24, 2008
Catholic ministry leaders detailed lifelong learning, collaborative ministry, solid formation and a greater need to encourage diverse leadership as crucial to the further growth of a healthy church on the last day of an unprecedented summit meeting.
Expanded role for lay ministers emerges as a Summit topic
April 23, 2008
[Bishop Blase Cupich] He said that what’s being created through the summit is a leaven that the participants can take back to their parishes and dioceses to see what develops.
Summit–goers grapple with changing church: multi–parish pastors, more lay ministers, growing diversity.
April 22, 2008
An expanded role for professional lay ministers is high among possible models for pastoral leadership emerging from an unprecedented gathering here of 1,200 Catholics — clergy, vowed religious and laity — preparing for the future of a changing church.
