Informal Evaluation by the Cluster Implementation Committee
Cluster 65
| Notre Dame de Lourdes, Swarthmore Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Morton Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque, Essington |
Our Lady of Peace, Milmont Park Saint Madeline, Ridley Park Saint Rose of Lime, Eddystone |
During the Spring, 2003, the Cluster Implementation Committee conducted an informal evaluation of the Cluster Pastoral Plan in consultation with the Parish Pastoral councils. The purpose of this informal evaluation was to determine the current status of the cluster plan. They considered the following questions:
1. What action(s) has (have) been taken to carry out the Cluster Pastoral Plan?
2. What action(s) still need(s) to be taken to meet the goal(s) of the Cluster Pastoral Plan?
3. To what degree has the vision of the Cluster Pastoral Plan been implemented?
4. Were any new needs discovered or new actions taken during the implementation of the Cluster Pastoral Plan?
5. What obstacles, if any, stood in the way of the implementation of the Cluster Pastoral Plan?
The committee found the following
actions have been taken:
The cluster goals were identified as Adult Education, Youth Ministry, and Evangelization.
Adult Education and Youth Ministry have been initiated but only on the parish level and only in some of the parishes. Evangelization was also referred to the parish level.
The cluster meetings provided some cooperation among parishes in helping each other with pre-Cana programs, penance services, and, to a degree, some awareness of the churches in the cluster.
A new item was the publication across the cluster of staggered Mass times in the various parishes so as to provide a variety of times for Mass in the cluster area.
Actions that still need to be taken
include:
A consistent attendance at meetings with follow-through on plans and goals
Obstacles, that have stood
in the way of the implementation of the Cluster Pastoral Plan are:
Leadership was challenged by rapidly changing personnel, especially the transfer of pastors from the cluster.
There was difficulty acquiring recognition and identity of the cluster among the parishioners of the several parishes.
Status of the Plan
In light of the information collected, the Cluster Implementation Committee in consultation with Parish Pastoral Councils recommended to the Regional Vicar that the status of the plan be
To continue - implementation is not complete, new data does not indicate a need for revised cluster plan but further work is required on the current plan.