St. Mary, Immaculate Conception, & St. Joseph Parishes
Guttenberg
North Buena Vista
Garnavillo
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2024/2025 Parish Vitality Goals

Goal 1
- By September 2025, St. Mary parish will hold another ministry fair in order to retain and add liturgical ministers (such as choir members, lectors, eucharistic ministers, ushers, Mass servers, gift bearers) to increase parish participation.
Action Steps:
  1. Continued Ministry Fair
  2. Introduce ministries to parishioners during mass
  3. Providing training
  4. Looking into replacement/moving/programming of instruments, if needed, to include more people (such as children and teens)

Goal 2
- St. Mary parish will continue to recognize each faith formation class/parish committees at least two times per year to encourage parishioner involvement, sense of belonging, and parish communication.
Action Steps:
  1.  Collecting pictures and/or description of milestones
  2. Create contact people for submissions to social media, bulletin, and local newspaper
  3. Update social media (such as the Facebook page)
  4. Update church bulletin
  5. Possibly put in Guttenberg Press and Guttenberg News

Goal 3
- In one year, St. Mary parish will create an updated parish directory.
Action Steps:
  1. Contact companies to see what is offered
  2. Family pictures
  3. Committee pictures
  4. Office personal / priest
  5. Activity pictures
    6.  Address, phone numbers, email addresses
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