What is the job of Parish Pastoral Council?

• To serve as a communications and feedback link (the "neck, throat, and voice") between the community and its ministers, actively soliciting, gathering, voicing, and advocating the needs, concerns, and best interests of the parish community at large.

• To make an active, ongoing assessment of the needs of the parish and its people, continually evaluating the overall life of the parish in relation to the existing parish mission statement, major goals, and programs.

• To collaborate with the Pastor in the formulation of a consultative agenda.

• To make recommendations that will help the the Pastoral Staff, as the primary administrators of the parish's various ministry organizations, to articulate a vision of parish's desirable future, to make major policy and administrative decisions, and to take action in the interest of meeting the pastoral needs of the parish community more effectively, efficiently, and responsibly.

• To affirm and support those decisions made and actions made in consultation with the council in the name of the community.

• To call the Pastoral Staff and, through them, the parish's various ministry organizations to accountability in the name of the community.