Ideas that emerged from statements
such as:
- In what ways might we maintain our parish?
- In what ways might we address the changing demographics?
- In what ways might we maintain our community through Church?
- Move two parishes together
- Twin a city parish with a rural parish for support
- Two or three parishes should work together to run programs and share resources
- Small community parishes may have to join together. Close one. Need guidelines.
- Make six parishes out of eleven rural. Use population guidelines.
- More missions from one central area
- If smaller parishes are not sustainable, they may close - join a larger congregation
- Amalgamation of city parishes and assign priests to rural areas
- Amalgamate parishes in the city
- Parishes work together in clusters
- Join forces - some communities are only 15 km. away
- Amalgamate with other denominations
- Hold church services in the United or Anglican - we cannot afford to keep ours open during the winter
- Small parishes join central, larger center parish
- Build consensus of the parishes involved to see which one will close. Use a process.
- Hold informational meetings through Deanery
- Join parishes - the largest parish will be central. Consider
traveling.
- Network with other parishes for shared ideas
- Have Mass at one parish one Sunday. Go to another parish for Mass another Sunday. We travel rather than the priest.
- Invite other parishes when you are having a celebration, a bingo. Put announcement in their bulletin.
- Combine choirs, K of C, councils
- Have inter-parish meetings at least twice a year
- Have Confirmation together
- Exchange lay presiders with other parishes
- Revolving community Masses may be a future happening
- Gather parishes together (especially smaller parishes) for sacramental preparation
- Have fewer committees - fewer responsibilities
- Travel to Alberta to church because of proximity
- Alternate service times to help priest (maybe Wed., Thurs., services - rotate)
- Face the facts. Sell what you can to save money now. (Rectory)
- Develop a long term plan
- Debt should not be placed on young families
- We will hold church services in our homes, on a rotational basis, when our funds do not sustain upkeep of our parish church.
- Closure of our church (physical building) - not enough upkeep money
- Research before building of more churches in Regina
- Discern carefully before building yet another large church
- We will maintain our parish church as long as it is financially stable, and a priest or lay service is available Sundays. The parish church holds our community together.
- A small, close-knit caring family parish will further the spreading of the "Good News" effectively. We need to maintain our parish church for our community.
- It is quality, not quantity. Our rural parishes will continue unless not able to maintain.
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