Lista de secções

  • Introduction

    Like many pastors and leaders in the Church, you may be faced with the challenge of forming leadership teams to help achieve your vision, while also figuring out what to do with existing teams or councils that may not be producing the fruit desired for renewal. In this series, Matt Regitz, Tammy LeBlanc, priests and their team members, will walk you through a four part series on Leadership Teams, Parish Pastoral Councils, and Finance Councils. In it, they will define and detail the purposes of each team, how they work together, and how you might discern and raise up leaders for each group.

    With these tools and principles, you will be able to navigate the current teams reality within your parish, and set a course to build and maintain healthy leadership teams and structures, necessary to have your vision for the parish realized.

  • The Role of LT, PPC, & FC

  • Building the Teams

  • Best Practices

    • Additional Resources

    • For Discussion...


      LT (Leadership Team) vs PPC (Parish Pastoral Council) vs FC (Finance Council)
      1. What role should your leadership team take with other teams?
      2. How much synergy should be expected across teams?
      3. Are the boundaries between teams clear to everyone? Where can this improve?
      4. How can you maintain healthy communication and support between parish teams?
      5. How do your teams create space for the Holy Spirit to empower their work?
      6. Are the non-negotiables of a healthy team an important part of your selection process?
      7. If it doesn’t work out with a team member, how is it handled?
      8. What does your ideal team look like?

      Team Building
      1. What do you think are the advantages of having a Leadership Team that operates as a managing body, a Pastoral Council that operates as a visioning body, and a Finance Council that operates as a stewarding body?
      2. What does it mean to you that these three leadership bodies are to advise and support the pastor?
      3. What are practices that will help maintain a harmony between these three leadership bodies?
      4. How can these three leadership bodies ground themselves in prayer and continue to make prayer a regular part of their existence and discernment?

      Discerning the Right People
      1. How comfortable are you with calling upon and entrusting the laity to take on leadership roles in the parish?
      2. How do you envision the LT, PPC, and FC will function?
      3. Considering the skills and experience that are needed for these leadership bodies, what do you think would be a good way to assess whether someone has the skills and experience necessary for each team?