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Summary of Comments from January 25, 2007 Assembly

What has been good or gone well with the deanery in the past?

  • Consistency in parish makeup
  • Good working project groups
  • The dean has been there for us
  • Excellent deanery clergy meetings
  • Good communication with the diocese through Rob Bacon and our Youth Reps.
  • The established geographical identity
  • The delegates from our various churches
  • The programming including out time with the bishops
  • Getting to know people from other parishes
  • Learning from one another regarding our trials and troubles
  • Deanery Confirmation
  • The work that has been done on homelessness in the deanery
  • The Mashpee Mission

What has not worked so well?

  • Getting the youth from our parishes interested in the diocesan youth programs
  • The orientation of new delegates to the deanery
  • Helping them to better understand how the deanery and the diocese work
  • There have been no groups working between the assembly meetings
  • Timely communication – at least 3 weeks prior to parish and deanery events
  • Seating at the assembly meetings that mixes the parishes
  • Difficulty in getting people to run for deanery offices
  • Consistency in keeping projects going
  • Website functionality
  • The lack of a deanery calendar.

What would you like to see continue

  • Active participation and attendance by delegates
  • Discussion groups: There is a need to increasing the number of discussion groups
  • The Diocesan Council Report
  • The format of the meetings including the desserts
  • The continuity of a caring dean
  • Continuing education
  • Worship
  • Working Groups: There is a need to revitalize these groups
  • The flow of information from the diocese around the subject of the mission strategy and diocesan goals

What changes would you like to see happen with the deanery?

  • Get more information to our youth
  • Make better use of our deanery website
  • Include a calendar and the different programs of interest being presented in the parishes of the deanery
  • A deanery directory of committee and parish leaders from our deanery churches
  • A roster of delegates and clergy from the deanery
  • A job description for deanery delegates
  • Get our deanery youth together through choirs, festivals and teen events
  • Get our parish healing ministries together
  • A deanery/diocesan resource guide to help individual parishes that may want to begin a new ministry
  • Parish show-and-tell; what is going on in the particular parishes in the deanery
  • Perhaps develop a WCAS test for church school kids and adults to improve Christian and Biblical literacy
  • Looking at the mission of the deanery in Trinitarian terms:
    • As an instrument to gather and assist local parishes to live, learn, and work together in creative ways;
    • As an instrument to help these parishes relate better to the diocese;
    • As a means of giving the diocese the opportunity to be in a closer relationship with our local parishes.

What do we need to focus our energy on in the near term, and in the long-term

  • Environmental issues
  • Mashpee Mission
  • Housing needs
  • Youth
  • Communication/Internet
  • Defining our goals and putting them on an agenda
  • Focus on focusing
     
 
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