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.
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