Core Team Update #7

December 22, 2015

Dear Core Team Members:

Our best wishes to you and your loved ones for a blessed Christmas and joyous New Year!

Some reminders:

1. You can find a six-minute video message from Bishop O’Connell introducing Faith in Our Future at http://www.dioceseoftrenton.org/faithinourfuture/. Bishop O’Connell explains both Faith in Our Future and Faith to Move Mountains in this short 6 minute video There have been several requests by Pastors and members of Core Teams requesting a message from the Bishop. You may wish to show the video to members of your expanded study team or even to your entire parish community at the Sunday masses.

In addition, you will find all of the resource material for Faith in Our Future on the same web site. This includes the Planning Guide in English and Spanish and the print resource “Building Our Future Together.

2. Please make take note of the following next steps for Core Teams:

• Meet as a Core Team in early January if you have not already done so and review sections I & II in the Planning Guide to clarify your role and responsibility as a Core Team.
• Plan meetings for every other week through early March.
• Decide on a communications strategy to keep your fellow parishioners involved.
• Begin to evaluate the 4 areas of parish life in ways that involve the whole parish (e.g. surveys, task forces, work groups, town hall meetings, etc.)
• Contact your Reid Group consultant with your questions and concerns.

3. If you have substantial changes or corrections to your parish data verification form, please submit these in writing to Terry Ginther ([email protected] ), (1-609-403-7143) by the end of January 2016.

4. The 1st draft of cohort parishes will be distributed for your review in January 2016. If you have not completed your preferred cohort form, please return it to Sherrie Sporek ASAP.

5. The training sessions for the Cohort Teams are scheduled for March 15-16, The sites for these sessions will be determined in the next month or so.

Again, Merry Christmas to you all, and thank you for contributing your time and energy to Faith in Our Future.

 

FAITH IN OUR FUTURE STAFF & COUNTY CONSULTANTS

Diocesan Office Staff

Msgr. Leonard Troiano, [email protected], 1-609-403-7159

Sherrie Sporek, [email protected], 1-609-403-7193

FAX: 1-609-406-7413

MAILING ADDRESS:  Faith in Our Future, Diocese of Trenton

701 Lawrenceville Road

Trenton, NJ 08648

 

The Reid Group Consultants Burlington & Ocean Counties Consultant

Tom Reid, [email protected], 1-206-947-2990

Monmouth County Consultant

John Reid, [email protected], 1-206-947-1055

Mercer County & Bi-Lingual Consultant

Karen Castellon, [email protected], 1-908-240-9941