Shaping Our Future Together: Pastoral Planning
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.
Stewardship Key Contacts
Director of Stewardship
Patricia Lutz
573-635-9127, ext. 230
Moderator of Stewardship
Fr. Stephen Jones
573-635-7991
Alphonse J. Schwartze
Memorial Catholic Center
2207 West Main St
Jefferson City, MO 65109-0914
Parish Pastoral Planning
Parish pastoral plans are due June 1, 2025.
A link to a form to submit your plan is available at
diojeffcity.org/2025-parish-pa
and you are invited to submit the plan as soon as it is ready.
The submission must include:
The parish’s pastoral plan
An explanation of how the plan aligns with the parish’s deanery plan and the diocesan pastoral plan
An indication of how the lay leadership (pastoral, finance, stewardship and other councils) will be using the parish pastoral plan in their leadership roles
Diocesan pastoral process
Central Deanery plan
North Deanery plan
See City Deanery plan
Southeast Deanery plan
Southwest Deanery plan
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
The foundation
2024
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) ..."
2021
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.