Strategic and Pastoral Planning for Parishes and Parish Clusters

Successful Strategic
Planning 

An effective strategic plan is visionary, long-range, comprehensive, realistic and integrated.  Using Meitler Consultants to design and direct your planning process will help ensure a successful outcome.

Parishes that invest in strategic planning experience many benefits.  Parishes with effective plans find more resources, practice good stewardship, have a clearer focus on mission, attract more members and supporters, and make wiser decisions.

The Components
of a Strategic Plan

The basic parts of a strategic pastoral plan are the following:

MISSION

VISION

LONG-RANGE GOALS AND OBJECTIVES

MEMBERSHIP PROJECTION

PROGRAM PLAN

STAFF PLAN

FACILITIES PLAN

FINANCIAL/BUSINESS PLAN

STEWARDSHIP PLAN

Why Use Meitler Consultants?

 Design a planning process that is customized to your situation
 
Bring models of ministry that respond to contemporary needs
 
Experience in planning, having worked in depth with approximately 315 parishes
 
Challenge traditional thinking
 
Move forward with skilled facilitation
 
Build on professional data analysis and report writing
 
Proceed with objectivity in analysis and facilitation