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Diocese of Knoxville

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This group is for parishes in the Diocese of Knoxville working on the full implementation of the Standards for Excellence. The parishes include: St. Mary's Church in Johnson City, St. Dominic's Church, Sacred Heart Cathedral, and St. Thomas the Apostle.

To learn how your parish or Catholic organization can work with the Leadership Roundtable to implement the Standards for Excellence contact Peter.Denio@nlrcm.org

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Standard 3&4, 17

Started by Cindy Briggs May 30. 0 Replies 0 Likes

The Sacred Heart Team met last week and we are continuing to make progress on our road map. Our first ministry evaluation (standards 3-4) has been completed on a program called Living the Eucharist. This was offered for the first time this spring.…Continue

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Comment by Phillip B. Johnson on February 12, 2013 at 1:50pm: We had a meeting of the St. Thomas implementation team last night (Feb 11), including all eight members of our team. Our plan moving forward is to bring together a group of parish leaders, focusing on sharing, discussing, and developing goals for implementing our five-year strategic plan. Through this leadership group we anticipate utilizing and developing standards for excellence that will help us maximize the effectiveness of our various parish ministries.

Comment by Cindy Briggs on March 21, 2013 at 2:03pm: The Sacred Heart team met last week for the first time since our training in January. At the training we established dates of completion from March through July for the standards on our "road map". We also made assignments of who would be responsible for the work on these standards. I am happy to report that there has been excellent progress made on the standards with March completion dates. We have a draft of our new Parish Employee handbook (standard 23) being reviewed and we have completed our job descriptions (standard 26). We also discussed how we would incorporate diversity into our Parish Council and Finance Board by laws (standard 14). We also spent time discussing Ministry Program evaluation (standards 3&4) and put a "pilot plan" in place to evaluate a new ministry. This will help us create a format for all ministry evaluations going forward. Our team will keep working and we hope to make more progress for our May meeting.

Comment by Peter Denio on April 4, 2013 at 11:32am: Here is the excel spreadsheet that includes the documents helpful in preparing your Standards for Excellence road map.

Standards for Excellence Road Map Template

Comment by Cindy Briggs on May 30, 2013 at 1:44pm: The Sacred Heart Team met last week and we are continuing to make progress on our road map. Our first ministry evaluation (standards 3-4) has been completed on a program called Living the Eucharist. This was offered for the first time this spring. This will set a template for future ministry evaluations.

We also have a format set for member expectations (standard 17) with the preparation of the Finance Board expectations. We will complete the standard with the Parish Council expectations in the same format.

Members of our team continue to work on several other standards such as job descriptions and volunteer roles. These are close to completion. We will meet again in July for updates on those and to plan for the future direction of our roadmap.

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