Office of Communications
Director of Communications
Jacob Luecke
573-635-9127, ext. 261
Creative Services Coordinator
Annie Williams
573-635-9127, ext. 231
Pastoral Planning
Consultant
Helen Osman
512-785-3006
Alphonse J. Schwartze
Memorial Catholic Center
2207 West Main Street
Jefferson City, MO 65109-0914
Shaping Our Future Together
Shaping Our Future Together incorporates the three pillars from the previous pastoral plan, A Steward's Journey: Our Call to Greater Communion and seven elements identified as essential for a thriving parish. Each deanery has developed a deanery-wide pastoral plan which addresses the unique aspects of the deanery, through the lens of the three pillars and seven elements.
26 March 2024
"Our new pastoral plans will serve in continuity with the previous plans, deepening our mission as a synodal local Church along the themes of the spirituality of stewardship, co-responsibility and parishes as centers of charity and sanctuaries of mercy. Our Lord gives greater specificity regarding how “to bring glad tidings to the poor” in the beginning of his Sermon on the Mount in Matthew’s Gospel (Mt 5: 1-12) ..."
Deanery plans
Central Deanery plan
North Deanery plan
See City Deanery plan
Southeast Deanery plan
Southwest Deanery planDiocesan pastoral process
The foundation
Bishop W. Shawn McKnight promulgated A Steward's Journey: Our Call to Greater Communion on Feb. 6, 2021, at St. Thomas More Newman Center in Columbia, Missouri.
On the third anniversary of his ordination and installation, Bishop McKnight signed the letter and plan during Mass with the young adults telling them the Church needs their energy and “fresh eyes to help our Church transform into what the Lord is calling us to be,” emphasizing the importance of our youth in the fulfillment of our mission as a Church.
