Vision of the Future

Over the past few years Fr Philip has been working out of a team from the parish to explore ways to respond to Pope Francis's call to respond to Christ's mission to proclaim the Good News and to go out to the ends of the world. Currently this leadership team is made up of Zsuzsanna Brenner-Daly, our parish outreach coordinator, Victoria Pawlowski, Barbara Escolme and Robert Burrow. We meet for prayer each week and are passionate about defining a vision for the future of our parish that highlights the many wonderful aspects of our parish community and defines what we are working towards.

We agreed that we want to serve our Lord, our parishioners and broader community through the following strategic aspects:

1. Parish: Being a welcoming parish community that goes beyond itself to celebrate and share God’s love and mercy.

2. Community: providing outreach and support for everyone in daily and specific challenges that life throws at us, regardless of whether they have faith or not.

3. Evangelical: being passionate in helping to invite and bring people to faith.

Therefore our vision statement for St Joseph’s is as follows:

St Joseph’s is the beating heart of our community. We open our arms to all, especially those who struggle and are overburdened. With love and mercy we encourage and accompany all into a joyful encounter with Christ.

We feel excited by this vision and believe it encompasses our priorities, but we would welcome your feedback. Please leave your feedback as a comment on this post or send an email to Zsuzsanna at outreach.stjosephs@gmail.com