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1 | ST LUKE CATHOLIC PARISH - PASTORAL COUNCIL PLAN 2025-2027 | 77% | 2025 | 2026 | 2027 | |||||||
2 | Strategic Pillar at St Lukes | PARISH PASTORAL ACTION (2025) | EXAMPLES TO INSPIRE LOCAL COMMUNITY ACTION | Status | Action owner / Ministry / Committee | Target Completion Date | 17 | 22 | 20 | 5 | ||
3 | Faith Enrichment | 2025 | 1 | Expanded current youth initiatives | • Establish a Youth Group or find ways to expand current youth initiatives in the local community. | Youth Choir - first service on March 8 and will serve every 2nd month Easter egg fundraising | Youth Ministry | 1 | 16 build on current initiatives | |||
4 | Serving God and Others | 2025 | 1 | Succession planning | • Apply a talent-mapping framework and process to support succession planning and handover/transitions between leaders/roles. | Include a Succession Plan review at least once a year PPC recruitment drive end May/June Expand with Ministry Leads, and encourage leadership roles e.g. co lead, deputy or rotation | PLG | 1 | 6 new actions | |||
5 | Serving God and Others | 2025 | 1 | Familiarise community with the Diocesan Safeguarding policies | • Ensure the community and its leaders are familiar with Diocesan Safeguarding policies and meeting mandatory training requirements. | Volunteers are familiar with the policies and requirements to complete mandatory training. ACTION: Need to share this broadly to the broader community for awareness | Parish Admin | |||||
6 | Serving God and Others | 2025 | 1 | Compliance to Diocesan Safeguarding policies | • Ensure that good safeguarding practices are included in all ministry formation and training. | Confirm compliance by auditing if 100% for Childrens Ministry, Youth Ministry, Youth, Childrens Choir and Junior Altar | Parish Admin | request report in July review with Ministry Leads end August | ||||
7 | Serving God and Others | 2025 | More ministry opportunities for young people | • Develop ministry opportunities for young people, including social justice initiatives, liturgy, and music groups. | A number youth involved in various ministries e.g. readers, altar server, social media, choir, hospitality and PPC Youth Choir - first service on March 8 and will serve every 2nd month | Youth Ministry | 1 | |||||
8 | Serving God and Others | 2025 | 1 | Youth representation in the PPC | • Ensure youth have a voice by including them in Parish Pastoral Councils and School Leadership Teams. | Jerome SR and Althea DC as the Youth rep in PPC | Youth Ministry | 1 | ||||
9 | Serving God and Others | 2025 | 1 | Support local not for profit like Vinnies (by hosting events like second hand clothes) | • Work with local organisations, such as Vinnies, to organise second-hand clothing sales for the community. | Fundraising: Car boot sale in 2024 and TBC in 2025 | Fundraising | TBC in 2025 | 1 | |||
10 | Serving God and Others | 2025 | 1 | Volunteer led community prayers | • Invite volunteers to share in leading the community prayer such as the Rosary and Children’s Liturgy. | Weeklly block rosary Prayer Ministry Team started 8/6/25 Pentecost and will now become a regular offering every 2nd month (1st weekend) | Faith enhancement | Next Prayer Ministry on August 1st weekend | 1 | |||
11 | Serving God and Others | 2025 | 1 | Professional development opportunities within meetings like formation material | • Include professional development opportunities within existing meetings, especially as formation material is developed. | Half day formation session for PPC and Finance / retreat | Fr Gayan | TBC in Q3/4 2025 - planned for Nov 1 | ||||
12 | Stronger Community Connection | 2025 | 1 | Continue: Culture of 'welcome, inclusivity, and meaningful community' | • Local faith communities to discern and make intentional efforts to create a culture of ‘welcome, inclusivity and meaningful community’, including in the online space (i.e. social media such as Instagram and Facebook). | International Food Day Multicultural Day Multilingual Prayers of the Faithful at Pentecost Day | PLG+Liturgy+Welcome + Hospitality Ministry | Ongoing | 1 | |||
13 | Stronger Community Connection | 2025 | 1 | Continue: Volunteer recruitment drive | • Host a ‘recruitment drive’ to allow the People of God to register and volunteer, so that a database can be created of the people, their skills, talents, and gifts within the local community. | Done twice a year Completed Formation sessions in June for all Ministry members Ongoing recruitment for 8am Mass starting Aug 3 | PPC Chair + Ministry Leads | 1 | ||||
14 | Stronger Community Connection | 2025 | 1 | Continue: Welcome Ministry and Name Tag Sundays during morning tea | • Create a team focused on strengthening community and meaningful connection (i.e. event team, outreach team, or welcome team). They could lead initiatives such as ‘Name Badge Sunday’ or be welcomers as people arrive at Mass. | Ongoing - recent one was July 13 during 2025 PPC member commissioning | Welcome + Hospitality Ministry | Ongoing | 1 | |||
15 | Stronger Community Connection | 2025 | The official “Statement of Welcome” of the Diocese in the weekly bulletin or on the parish website | • The official “Statement of Welcome” of the Diocese to be used in local communities - for example permanently published in the weekly bulletin or on the parish website. | Acknowledgement of Country at the start of every mass, in the front page of the bulletin and in the parish website | Parish Admin | Ongoing Check in June | 1 | ||||
16 | Stronger Community Connection | 2025 | Community prayer during NAIDOC Week (July 6-13) | • Gather as a community in prayer during NAIDOC Week and extend a special invitation to local First Nations people to attend. | Played First Nation's version of Our Father during NAIDOC Week. ACTION: Ensure included in yearly NAIDOC | Fr Gayan | July 6-13, 2025 | 1 | ||||
17 | Stronger Community Connection | 2025 | 1 | Continue: Host local interfaith events e.g. dinner dance, trivia nights | • Host local interfaith and/or ecumenical events such as dinner dances and trivia nights to foster community bonds. | Dinner dance done 2x and is now an annual fundraising event | Fundraising | July 26, 2025 | 1 | |||
18 | Stronger Community Connection | 2025 | 1 | Continue: Community events to gather people from different backgrounds | • Organise community events like sausage sizzles as opportunities to gather with people from different backgrounds. | Fundraising events like car boot sale | Fundraising | 1 | ||||
19 | Stronger Community Connection | 2025 | 1 | Continue: Increase collaboration with the different Diocesan agencies and works in the area | • Each local faith community will identify the different Diocesan agencies and works in their area and look for ways to increase contact and communication between them all, so that collaboration is more effective. | Tessie's role in the Diocese interfaith commission and Jerome in the Deanery PC | Fr Gayan | 1 | ||||
20 | Vibrant Worship Experience | 2025 | 1 | Physical signage to re-emphasise welcome, hospitality and meaningful connection in the foyer of the church | • Discern the best form of physical signage to re-emphasise welcome, hospitality and meaningful connection in the foyer of the church, school, and agency facilities. | Include in new church hall | Fr Gayan + Diocese Church Build project | 19/10/2025 | ||||
21 | Vibrant Worship Experience | 2025 | 1 | Offer the Prayers of the Faithful in the diverse languages | • Offer the Prayers of the Faithful in the diverse languages spoken by community members to celebrate cultural richness. | Done 3x a year - Pentecost, Feast Day and International Christmas Eve Mass | Parish Admin | 1 | ||||
22 | Vibrant Worship Experience | 2025 | Homilies - include topics that respond to community's spiritual and pastoral needs | • Engage the community to explore topics that respond to their spiritual and pastoral needs. These can then be incorporated into homilies. | Ongoing | Fr Gayan | Ongoing | 1 | ||||
23 | Vibrant Worship Experience | 2025 | 1 | Opportunities for quiet prayer | • Create opportunities for quiet prayer, Adoration, and Adult Faith Formation. | space allocated at the temporary worship space next to the parish office and in the new church building | Fr Gayan | 1 | ||||
24 | Vibrant Worship Experience | 2025 | Stage 1 of Church Build Project | Ongoing construction Planning by Church Committee Blessing on St Luke's Feast Day | Fr Gayan + Diocese Church Build project | 19/10/2025 | ||||||
25 | Faith Enrichment | 2026 | 1 | Youth listening forum or Table Talk | • Host a youth listening forum or Table Talk on key issues facing them in their lives. | Youth Ministry | ||||||
26 | Faith Enrichment | 2026 | 1 | Form Prayer and Liturgy Committee | • Form a Prayer and Liturgy Committee that will focus on developing the quality and experience of liturgy in your community. | Faith enhancement | ||||||
27 | Faith Enrichment | 2026 | 1 | Connect with other community groups to create common opportunities for prayer. | • Establish connections with other community groups to create common opportunities for prayer. | Faith enhancement | ||||||
28 | Faith Enrichment | 2026 | 1 | Re-introduce the Alpha program | • Introduce programs like Alpha into the community. | Faith enhancement | ||||||
29 | Serving God and Others | 2026 | 1 | Support local not for profit - strengthen current partnership and form new ones | • Support existing partnerships (or form new ones) with organisations that are responding to needs. For example, Vinnies, Wayside Chapel, Aboriginal Catholic Ministry, Project Rachel. | PLG | ||||||
30 | Stronger Community Connection | 2026 | 1 | Establish formal relationships with local organisations, like The Shed at Emerton or the Women’s Shed at Quakers Hill | • Establish formal relationships with local organisations, like The Shed at Emerton or the Women’s Shed at Quakers Hill, for the purpose of supporting their work and providing safe places for activities, like yarning circles. | PLG | ||||||
31 | Stronger Community Connection | 2026 | 1 | Utilise parish hall as 'cooling centres' during extreme heat | • Utilise parish and school halls as ‘cooling centres’ during extreme heat to support community members suffering from heat stress. | PLG | ||||||
32 | Stronger Community Connection | 2026 | 1 | Develop a Synodality Checklist | • Develop a Synodality Checklist to help evaluate how well the local community is undertaking synodality. | PLG | ||||||
33 | Stronger Community Connection | 2026 | 1 | Encourage the assignment of an interfaith portfolio to one or two members | • For each Pastoral Council, encourage the assignment of an interfaith portfolio to one or two members, to encourage the participation in and advertising for interfaith formation opportunities and practical ways of carrying out this missionary apostolate. | PLG | ||||||
34 | Vibrant Worship Experience | 2026 | 1 | Emphasise 'all are welcome' at significant events attended by wider range of people | • Discern ways to emphasise that “all are welcome” at significant events (such as weddings, funerals, or baptisms) that are attended by a wider range of people. | PLG | ||||||
35 | Faith Enrichment | 2026 | 1 | Small group accompaniment as entry point for the non-baptised (RCIA) | • Establish and grow opportunities for small group accompaniment as an entry point for the non-baptised (e.g. family circles, support groups based on ‘season of life’ or ‘life-experience’). | Faith enhancement | ||||||
36 | Faith Enrichment | 2026 | 1 | Celebrate regular Healing Masses | Celebrate regular Healing Masses that include special prayers of intercession for those whose trust has been betrayed through abuse or violence as well as ritual gestures that will help all who seek healing in body, mind, and spirit. | Faith enhancement | ||||||
37 | Faith Enrichment | 2026 | 1 | prayer and reflection programs | • Develop and facilitate prayer and reflection programs that engage the community and align with the liturgical season of the Church. | Faith enhancement | ||||||
38 | Faith Enrichment | 2026 | 1 | Share online resources on different forms of prayer | • Share online resources which communicate different forms of prayer that communities can explore. | faith enhancement | ||||||
39 | Faith Enrichment | 2026 | 1 | Invite others on sacramental program | • Review your community’s engagement with the sacramental program and consider how best to invite others into this important element in the life of the Church. | faith enhancement | ||||||
40 | Faith Enrichment | 2026 | 1 | Organise prayer and pilgrim opportunities | • Encourage Pastoral Councils to look to organise prayer and pilgrimage opportunities. | faith enhancement | ||||||
41 | Serving God and Others | 2026 | 1 | Response to the needs of the marginalised | • Establish a Pastoral Plan for your community which focuses on responding to the needs of the marginalised. | PLG | ||||||
42 | Serving God and Others | 2026 | 1 | Establish groups to visit the sick, housebound, and grieving. | • Establish groups to visit the sick, housebound, and grieving. | Prayer Group | ||||||
43 | Serving God and Others | 2026 | 1 | Establish a Social Justice Committee | • Establish a Social Justice Committee whose members engage in formation around Catholic Social Teaching, and training in how to access resources from other organisations and agencies such as the Sydney Alliance. | PLG | ||||||
44 | Serving God and Others | 2026 | 1 | Involve others in any process that seeks to identify local needs. | • Involve others in any process that seeks to identify local needs. | PLG | ||||||
45 | Serving God and Others | 2027 | 1 | Structured listening activity to engage with the marginalised, disengaged or wounded members of the community | • Organise a structured listening activity such as Table Talks or Listening Circles as a way of engaging with the marginalised, disengaged or wounded members of the community. | PLG | ||||||
46 | Serving God and Others | 2027 | 1 | Service projects for older and retired community members | • Offer opportunities for older and retired community members to participate in the community through service projects. | PLG | ||||||
47 | Stronger Community Connection | 2027 | 1 | Embed the practice of Spiritual Conversations into the community’s prayer life | • Embed the practice of Spiritual Conversations into your community’s prayer life as a way to nurture faith, strengthen community, identify possible partnerships in the local area, and to more effectively respond to local needs. | PLG | ||||||
48 | Stronger Community Connection | 2027 | 1 | Engage the community in a waste education program focussing on the 7 R’s of waste management | • Engage the community in a waste education program focussing on the 7 R’s of waste management (reduce, return, re-use, repair, refill, refuse & rot). | PLG | ||||||
49 | Stronger Community Connection | 2027 | 1 | Work with other Christian and non-Christian communities to support local charities. | • Working with other Christian and non-Christian communities to support local charities. For example, nursing homes, craft groups, or the local community garden or kitchen. | PLG |