Ministry and Community Life

Resourcing deaneries and parishes to build and sustain welcoming, inclusive communities as a basis for mission.

The Ministry and Community Life offers support, resources and training that assists deaneries and parishes to:

• Undertake community development initiatives
• Raise awareness, undertake training and provide pastoral care in community development areas, including cross-cultural sensitivities, disabilty and ecumenical / interfaith issues
• Resource pastoral leadership and lay ministry, incorporating formation and support for pastoral directors, pastoral associates and other pastoral ministers
• Build and sustain effective deanery and parish pastoral structures - deanery and parish operating models, parish and deanery pastoral councils, meeting processes and group dynamics
• Engage in pastoral planning for effective ministry and mission
• Enhance ecumenical collaboration at the local level

Related Ministry and Community Life websites:

• Centre for Multicultural Pastoral Care
• Ecumenism and Inter-religious Relations
• Focus on Welcome and Inclusion
• Office of Parish Pastoral Councils
• Pastoral Ministers Association
• Pastoral Planning Support
• Stewardship: Spirituality for Life
   

Contacts

General Enquiries
Ph: 07 3336 9362 or 07 3336 9174
Email: mcl.fl@bne.catholic.net.au

Cross cultural awareness and training
Clyde Cosentino
Ph: 07 3336 9175
Email: cosentinoc@bne.catholic.net.au

Disability awareness and inclusion
Anthony Gooley
Ph: 07 3336 9176
Email: gooleya@bne.catholic.net.au

Ecumenism and inter-religious relations
Margaret Naylon
Ph: 07 3336 9354
Email: naylonm@bne.catholic.net.au

Lay ministry
Anne Surtees osu
Ph: 07 3336 9330
Email: surteesa@bne.catholic.net.au

Pastoral councils
Cecilia Anning rsj
Ph: 07 3336 9232
Email: anningc@bne.catholic.net.au

Pastoral planning
Chris Ehler
Ph: 07 3336 9328
Email: ehlerc@bne.catholic.net.au