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Pastoral Plan for Hispanic Ministry / From Guests to HostsCommunion in Mission (Luke 9:13b)They replied, “Five loaves and two fish are all we have.”Part IiiPRIORITY VII: FORMING HISPANICS INLEADERSHIPEncourage and provide training for Hispanic leadershipat parish, deanery and archdiocesan levels throughboth existing and specially-designed programs, andpromote access to their rightful place in the leadershipof their communities and the Church as awhole.Lead Agents: Deans, Pastors, PastoralCoordinators and parish staffGo a l 7.1: Identify, invite and providetraining for members of the Hispaniccommunity who may be called toleadership roles at all levels in the localChurch.Objective 7.1.1: Identify and invite membersof the Hispanic community whom God is callingto leadership roles.Action Steps:1. Identify Hispanic leaders who may have interest in andthe capacity for leadership in the parish, deanery andArchdiocese.2. Invite identified members of the Hispanic communityto become part of the leadership in parish, deanery andarchdiocesan structures.3. Identify individuals interested in pursuing advancededucational opportunities to become professional layecclesial ministers.4. Promote and support participation in pastoral programssuch as Christifideles (Seattle University) and other approvedprograms for Spanish-speaking and bilingual parishioners.5. Promote and support the professional development ofcurrent pastoral associates for Hispanic ministry.6. Make the appropriate funding consideration to promotethe development of lay ecclesial ministry among Hispanics.28Objective 7.1.2: Create leadership development training opportunitiesthat prepare Hispanic community members whoare called to leadership roles.Action Steps:1. Identify training programs for members of the Hispaniccommunity to participate in leadership roles onconsultative bodies or in parish/deanery ministry.2. Provide all parishes with informationabout existing training programs or modify/create programs specifically for the leadershiptraining of members of the Hispaniccommunity.3. Provide training and formation for membersof the Hispanic community in parishesequipped with adequate training resources.4. Encourage Hispanic members to attendtraining and provide assistance, where necessary,to make attendance possible.Objective 7.1.3: Establish regional networks of leaders whomeet locally and on an archdiocesan level in order to provideformation, support and networking, in collaboration with theOffice of Catholic Faith Formation.Action Steps:1. Review existing leadership structures in deaneries andother geographic regions that might provide an infrastructurefor regional networks of Hispanic leaders.2. Encourage the development of regional networks of HispanicMinistry leadership.3. Provide technical assistance and staff support for suchregional networks.PRIORITY VIII: STEWARDSHIPDevelop relevant stewardship models to empower theHispanic community to play a full and active role inthe life and development of the Church by becomingtrue stewards of the faith community.
PaRt III — Archdiocesan Priorities, Goals, Objectives and Action Steps / From Guests to HostsLead Agents: Office of Stewardship & Parish Stewardship,Deans, Pastors, Pastoral Coordinators and Parish staffGo a l 8.1: Increase awareness among all Catholicsabout the meaning of stewardship, challenge peopleto respond by making a commitment to live as stewardsof God’s gifts, and encourage them in that commitment.Lead Agents: All archdiocesan offices and ministriesCo-Lead Agents: Deans, Pastors, Pastoral Coordinatorsand Parish staffGo a l 9.1: Encourage all cultural groups to celebratetheir own traditions and to develop a deeper appreciationand understanding for cultural differences anddevotions.Objective 8.1.1: Promote stewardship in a variety of ways(preaching, printed materials, and other methods), with specialattention to the cultural and language needs of the Hispaniccommunity.Action Steps:1. Develop an action plan to increase awareness of stewardshipwithin the Hispanic community through preaching,bulletin inserts, religious education, and methodsthat are appropriate to the community.2. Explore the trends, factors, and research that influencestewardship as a way of life among the Hispanics.3. Make all printed stewardship materials user-friendly andin Spanish.4. Provide education about stewardship specifically forleaders of the Hispanic community.5. Identify members of the Hispanic community to be partof the stewardship team in the parish and to participatein training programs.6. Ask Hispanic parishioners, along with the rest of theparish, to make a commitment of time, talent, and treasureto the parish by using the archdiocesan parish stewardshipmaterials.7. Seek training opportunities that address stewardship andthe cultural nuances in the Hispanic community.8. Establish a deanery-wide Stewardship Commission todevelop a culturally-sensitive program that bolsters financialand lay leadership resources from the Hispaniccommunity.Objective 9.1.1: Identify ways in which Hispanics celebratetheir faith in ways different from, but supportive of, the largerCatholic faith tradition.Action Steps:1. Identify cultural groups that actively participate in parishcommunities and document the ways in which theycontribute to the richness of Catholic life in their parishes.2. Identify underserved communities not represented atexisting liturgies, activities, and events.3. Create a demographic survey for parishes to identifycultural communities and their needs, in collaborationwith the Office for Pastoral Planning & Research.4. Identify the traditions (devotions, sacramentals, etc.)from their parishioners’ countries of origin that theycould introduce to or sustain within the parish.5. Develop opportunities for the wider archdiocesan communityto actively participate in the cultural traditionsand devotions represented within the parish populations,in collaboration with the Office for Liturgy.6. Encourage parish-wide celebrations of bilingual andmulticultural events.Go a l 9.2: Archdiocesan offices, deaneries and parishescommit to a vision of Hispanic ministry basedon Encuentro, Communio, and Unity in Diversity.Objective 9.2.1: Articulate a vision of ministry based onecclesial integration.Part IiiPRIORITY IX: BUILDING RELATIONSHIPSACROSS CULTURESAffirm and nurture the culture of Hispanic people andbuild one diverse archdiocesan Catholic community.Action Steps:1. Seek opportunities to listen to the stories, perspectives, andpreferences of people from the different cultures and ethnicitiespresent in the archdiocese, deanery and parish.2. Recognize and affirm cultural, linguistic, and racial dif-29
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