Title: Yakima Finance Policy Review Standards of Parish Excellence: Future Direction for Parish Growth
1Yakima Finance Policy ReviewStandards
of Parish Excellence Future Direction for Parish
Growth
- Bishop Joseph Tyson
- February 22nd 2012
2Questions to ask ourselves (every school and
every parish)
- What are we doing well?
- What can we do differently?
- What should we stop doing?
- What should we start doing?
- How do we get everyone to excellence?
- What does it take to grow, improve and develop?
3Excellence
- PARISHES
- Parish Liturgical Excellence
- Stewardship as a way of life for all parishioners
- Accessibility for all kinds of parishioners of
all kinds of backgrounds - Good Governance of the Parish and its School
Mission - Catechetical Excellence for all ages and all
learners.
- SCHOOLS
- Academic Excellence
- Stewardship
- Accessibility for All Kinds of Learners
- Good Governance
- Catholic Identity evident in School life
4- 5 STANDARDS of EXCELLENCE
- Liturgical Excellence
- Stewardship
- Accessibility
- Governance
- Catechetical Excellence
5Creating a Process to Achieve Excellence
What does Excellence look like? What Policies
support Excellence? How do we find our where we
have it and where we can improve? Who should be
involved? What are the leadership roles?
6ROLES supporting Parish Excellence
- Bishop
- Key Governance Roles
- Pastoral Center
- Diocesan Finance Council
- Diocesan Pastoral Council
- Vicars / 6 Vicariates
- Parish Visiting Teams
7Bishops Role
- As bishop I strive to teach, govern and sanctify
in a manner that animates our ecclesial
movements and assists the parish, schools and
agencies of the Diocese of Yakima grow and
flourish drawing all closer to Christ and His
Church.
8Pastoral Center Role
- .pastoral center clergy and staff
- to provide technical and catechetical
consultation and support so that every parish can
helps its parishioners grow closer to each other,
to Jesus Christ and to His Church.
9Diocesan Finance Council
- assists the bishop in holding all parishes,
schools and agencies to standards of financial
transparency and good facility management so that
they may become every better stewards of their
parishioners gifts of time, treasure and talent.
10Diocesan Pastoral Council Role
- holds the parish, schools and agencies to
standards of excellence based on commendations
and recommendations provided to this bishop for
his consideration as he teaches, preaches and
governs the Diocese of Yakima. - Initial surfacing of names done by clergy this
last year but will be surfacing names during our
consultative processes on policies.
11- DIOCESAN PASTORAL COUNCIL ATTRIBUTES
- Council members should have parish volunteer
expertise in at least one of five standards - Liturgical Excellence
- Stewardship
- Accessibility
- Governance
- Catechetical Excellence
- The Diocesan Pastoral Council should reflect the
racial, cultural, geographic and age diversity of
the diocese. - Who would you propose to be on the council?
126 Vicariates
2012 2013 Governance Msgr. Siler Charities Fr. Champoux
2013 2014 Teaching Fr. Chacon Schools Fr. Kuykendall
2014 - 2015 Sanctification Fr. Pulido Parish Life Fr. Aguirre
13The Vicars of the Diocese of Yakima
- The role of the Diocesan Vicars is to assist
their community of brothers and sisters in
embracing diocesan standards and developing key
responsibility areas (KRAs) with clear SMART
goals for their respective Diocesan ministerial
areas.
14Vicariate for Parish Life Father Osmar Aguirre
- PARISH VISITING TEAMS
- Formation of Visitation Teams Sister Kathleen
Ross, Father Osmar Aguirre - Visiting Team Area Representative, Diocesan
Pastoral Council Member, Visiting team members - Year-Two Review Diocesan Pastoral council member
and visiting team members. - Visiting Team Findings Review Diocesan Pastoral
Council, Area Representative, Father Osmar
Aguirre - Report to Parish Final Recommendations and
Commendations for Parish based on date to the
bishop Father Osmar Aguirre
15 Visitation Teams 7-Year Plan
- Each member of the Diocesan Pastoral Council
will be an anchor for a Parish Visiting Team. - These teams of members will formed by Sister
Kathleen Ross Fr. Osmar Aguirre to lead a
review process of parishes and prepare findings
for the Bishop in the form of commendations and
recommendations for best practices. - When fully operational in 7 years there will be
10 teams. A limited number of parishes each
year.
16Visitation Teams
- Area Representative
- One member from the Diocesan Pastoral Council or
Finance Council - 3 members who are Parish Staff or Volunteers who
align with expertise to the other standards
(below) not covered by other members - Liturgical Excellence
- Stewardship
- Accessibility
- Governance
- Catechetical Excellence
17Visitation Teams
- A TEAM 5 persons
- makes 3 or 4 visits in one year
- visitation tied to 5 color standards
- 2 years later 1 team member and the Area
Representative checks for evidence that the
parish is working on their self-identified
recommendations for improvement
18Excellence Recognized Best Practices
Expectations Shared
- Commendations Pastoral initiatives to be
uplifted from the local parish and shared with
other parishes in the Diocese of Yakima as models
and examples. - Recommendations Pastoral recommendations from
the visiting team based on the best practices of
other parishes and measured against policies of
the Diocese of Yakima.