The National Pastoral Life Center (NPLC) is a great resource for parishes. Recently they announced a new conference for and about Parish Life Coordinators. The conference is titled “Extraordinary Pastoring” and will be held in Michigan on January 25-28, 2010.
NPLC took the lead many, many years ago, under the direction of the late Msgr. Phil Murnion, in sponsoring the first-ever gathering of parish life coordinators. It is good to see them continue to provide much needed resources in this area, especially with a stellar list of speakers.
For those who may be unaware, Parish Life Coordinators is the term that has evolved to cover those individuals (whether lay, religious sisters or brothers, or deacons) who are responsible for a parish which has no resident priest-pastor. Many other terms were used in previous years, from lay pastors to parish coordinators. With the work of the bishops’ conference in the areas of lay ministry and pastoral practices, much discussion and reflection led to the selection of the term “parish life coordinator” as a consistent one across the US.
This conference will be invaluable, not only for parish life coordinators, but also for priests responsible for parishes with pastoral life coordinators and for diocesan staff with such parishes.
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