I am excited to share with you that our parish is participating in a parish survey conducted by Catholic Leadership Institute. The Disciple Maker Index (DMI) Survey allows parishioners to reflect on their own spiritual growth and discipleship and identify the ways in which the parish effectively supports that growth. The Disciple Maker Index Survey opened this week, and we need your help! Please help us participate by completing a 10 to 15-minute survey as soon as possible. Click here...
The web-based survey is accessible online and in paper form from October 14-November 22. Instructions for picking up and submitting Paper Surveys have been communicated to parishioners via Flocknotes, Facebook and the bulletin--they are available in the rectory office.
At the completion of the survey, our parish will receive an aggregate report of the results. We will NOT have access to individual survey responses. This survey offers us a unique and important opportunity to learn about issues of importance to families in a confidential and professional way. We will use these results to 1) look at opportunities to support parishioner growth in discipleship and 2) create goals and action plans to achieve that growth.
To learn more about the Mission Alignment Process I have included a brief summary and links.
Last April, our Bishop announced the Diocese of Oakland would begin “The Mission Alignment Process” or “MAP.” This process will impact the future of our Diocese as a whole, and every parish within the Diocese. MAP is a comprehensive process of pastoral planning, that will study every aspect of the diocese and parishes to determine how to best array our resources – human, physical, and financial – to spread the Gospel far and wide and make us more effective and faithful to the Great Commission.
In the next few weeks, every parishioner will be asked to participate in MAP by completing a 15-minute survey. Your input through the survey will provide critical information to both diocesan and parish leadership as they set a direction for the church going forward.
This very important survey, called the “Disciple Maker Index” (DMI), has gone live online beginning yesterday, October 14. The survey was developed by the Catholic Leadership Institute and has been used by dioceses across the country. Indeed, dioceses across the country have already, currently been, or are planning processes like MAP for themselves. You can learn more about the Catholic Leadership Institute here
https://www.catholicleaders.org/
We have sent the link to the survey through Flocknotes to every member of our community whose email address we have. We will also have paper copies of the survey available in the church for those who are more comfortable taking the survey on paper. All your answers, and those of parishioners throughout the diocese, will be kept anonymous and are collated by the Catholic Leadership Institute.
You can also learn more about MAP by reading the articles in the September and October issues of The Catholic Voice: