St. Francis Xavier - Drivers

St. Francis Xavier
Growing together as a
community of faith,
learning, & care
Drivers & Program Elements
January 28, 2014

Monday, February 3, 14

Process
DEC
2013

NOV
2013

JAN
2013

FEB
2013

MARCH
2013

APRIL
2013

DISCOVERY
insight
days

ACTIVATION:
WORKSHOPS & SALON

STRATEGY:
STRATEGIES &
DRIVERS

PLANNING:
MASTER PLAN
CONCEPT


survey &
synthesis

findings, priorities,
& community engagement

We’re here
vision, drivers, strategy:
presentation and refinement

masterplan &
refinement

CAPITAL
CAMPAIGN
LAUNCH

Conversations
Listening to your community

13

3

4

GROUP
INTERVIEWS &
MEETINGS

PARENT &
PARISHIONER
COFFEES

INDIVIDUAL
INTERVIEWS

3

5

6

TOURS

MASSES

OBSERVATIONS

Parish

School

INTERVIEWS

Pastoral Council
Finance Committee
Administrative Staff
Care Ministry
Education Ministry
PREP Parents
Father Sheridan
Father Harnett

INTERVIEWS
MEETINGS

St. Vincent DePaul Society
MASSES

Weekday Mass & fellowship
PREP Mass
Children’s Liturgy
Sunday Masses

Librarians
Specials Teachers
1 Student Hang out
4 Teacher Groups
2 Parent Coffees
School Board
EVENTS

Thanksgiving Feast

Growth & Intimacy
striking a balance
1. Growth and intimacy is delicate balance.
2. Parish growth is a priority.
3. School growth is an immediate reality.
•

Accommodating for current, making room
for the future

•


Creating a pipeline for parish growth

“When you want to grow, you
have to look like you’re ready to grow.”
-School Parent & Parishioner


Total Parish Population Growth
2002-2013
5783

5800
4840

+~1,000

4350

2900

1450

0

2002

Individual Parishioners


2013

Parish Population
2013
Family composition

Distribution of Adults and Children

172
108

154

2720

3063

1,034

Single (no children)
Couple (no children)
Single Parent (children)
Two Parent (children)


Children
Adults

What goals should the master plan help the larger
St. Francis Xavier community accomplish?
Respondents asked to select 3-5 priorities

Grow Parish
Maintenance & Modernization
Deepen engagement
Fellowship & gathering
Ease traffic & parking
Increase capacity for learning at all levels
Enhance technology and tools
Grow ability to reach out to communities in need
Increase ability for parish to serve family needs
Grow the school community
Increase accessibility of the physical campus
Expand capacity for innovative learning
Increase capacity for small group reflection
Enhance internal and external communications
Grow the PREP community

80
75
69
64
60
49
49
45
42
42
40
38
29
24
23

0
Response to December 2013 Survey
155 participants

20

40

60

Number of votes

80

Master Plan Drivers
1. Invite: Extend a sense of welcome
2. Engage: Engender agency and facilitate a
collaborative Parish life
3. Intertwine: Cultivate an interconnected Parish
4. Celebrate: Gather in friendship, family, and fellowship
5. Seek: Uplift lifelong learning and spiritual growth
6. Nurture: Nourish relationships and reﬂection
7. Play: Move the body with the spirit and mind


1

Invite
Extend a sense of Welcome


INVITE

ENGAGE

INTERTWINE CELEBRATE SEEK NURTURE PLAY

+
◦ “Welcoming” was the most
common word to describe the
SFX culture (December 2013 survey)

◦ Many doors and pathways lead to
fragmentation of campus
experience

◦ The ritual of “hello” was central to
the school day

◦ Welcome experience of chapel,
Parish Ofﬁce, and Preschool are
all sub-optimal

◦ “Plaza” and “foyer” were seen as
favorite social areas (voting at

◦ Key concerns? Accessibility, safety
and parking.

workshops)

“One of the biggest roadblocks to
becoming a welcoming parish is the
fact that some of us have a difﬁcult time
opening the church doors to come to
Mass.”
–Parishioner Letter

Accessibility

Let’s create a campus that
mirrors the warmth and
accessibility of St. Francis’s
culture.
• Mobility and Navigational Flow
◦ Accessibility
◦ Wayﬁnding
◦ Streamlining entry

Gather

• Foyer as Flexible Space
◦ Launch projects and events
◦ Graciously receive guests
◦ Support lingering
• Support a range of welcoming
experiences
◦ New family
◦ Lower mobility parishioners
◦ School / PREP/ Church

Linger

“It’s a can-do community... there’s a
sense of volunteerism. You get out of it
what you put into it and that permeates
throughout.”
–Parishioner

2

Engage
Engender agency and facilitate a collaborative Parish life


“This feels like home.
But I often forget new families
may not know everything
that’s going on across our
Parish–– it can be spread out
and hard to navigate if you
aren’t at the school.”

“With more people there’s a
desire to do different
things...more things have been
started in the recent years. We
need both the money and
personnel to support this
diversity.”
-Pastoral Leadership

-Parishioner at Workshop


“We are always going to each
other’s rooms to help each other
and share ideas...I wish we had a
space where you could really
meet to work together.”
–Teacher


INVITE

ENGAGE

INTERTWINE CELEBRATE SEEK NURTURE PLAY

+
◦ School culture built on a
foundation of deep friendship,
ﬂexibility, and mutual support.
- multiple hats
- team teaching
◦ High-parental involvement
◦ School-originated events and
activities fertile ground for full
Parish involvement
◦ Diversity of ministries engage
wide variety of interests

◦ Deepening Parish engagement
was a top-ranked goal for the
master plan (2013 Survey)
◦ Xavier Room acts as only midlarge size accessible meeting
space
◦ Desire by ministries to engage
younger members and new
families in initiatives (listed by 6+ of 15
ministries)

◦ Striking a balance between
traditional ministries and new
needs
◦ Lack of or undesirable space for
meeting often takes ministries
(and energy) off campus
◦ Volunteer and extracurricular
express storage and supply needs


Let’s mirror the “can do”
attitude of St. Francis
Xavier community with
places and tools that allow
people to roll up their
sleeves together.

• Flexibility
- Creation of second “Xavier Room”sized hub with increased flexibility
- Multi-use and siting of “specials”
spaces for school for versatile use of
full Parish

Collaborative space imagery
from Workshop Visual listening exercise

• Teaming & Volunteering
- Shared work and storage spaces for
team teaching
- Modernization of Parish Office with
flexibility for volunteers and PTE
- Empowered volunteer work and
storage solutions

“My goal is to make people feel
included. That they are apart of a whole.”
–Priest

“It is difﬁcult to see the community as a
whole. There are a lot of separate
communities within the Parish. Not sure
if that is good or bad; there is something
for everyone here.”
–Parishioner
Survey Response

3

Intertwine
Cultivate an interconnected and cohesive Parish


INVITE

ENGAGE

INTERTWINE

CELEBRATE SEEK NURTURE PLAY

+
◦ Mutual pride and support within
Parish (between school, ministries,
etc)
◦ Increased participation of whole
Parish in large, school-originated
events
◦ Emerging connection of School
and PREP in sacraments of
communion and conﬁrmation
◦ Intergenerational families act as
a foundation for an
intergenerational culture

◦ Expressed desire for increased
engagement across Parish and
school lines (eg. MOMs, Scouts, Action,
Gym mass, Ministry of Care, Eucharistic
Ministry, etc.)

◦ Appetite for collaboration
across School and PREP
communities for religious
education (teachers, school
leadership, catechists)
◦ Occasional unideal adjacencies
of adult programming and youth
programming (gym/Xavier room,
etc)
◦ Desire to make non-school
groups feel at home in the
school shared spaces and
classroom spaces (Storage,
technology, supplies, etc)


“Whatever we do, it has to continue in the spirit of, ‘same team, same dream.’ We
need to see each other as assets, as interconnected....It’s our base of
understanding...so we can evolve the church for the next generation.”

-Parishioner

“We are so busy building our own
communities (PREP and School)
that sometimes we forget to
intersect our venn diagrams.”

–Parishioner

“Our Goals: Improve faithlearning outcomes for PREP
and school students through
exploration of shared
resources. Create channels for
communication across all
religious education
programming.”
-SFX School Board Planning Reﬂection


Let’s embrace a spirit of
cross-pollination and
inclusion across the Parish
community.
• Communication & Centralization
- Centralized Parish Life Area
• Enhanced Religious Launchpad in
School

• Organizational Potential:
Bridge community through shared
infrastructure, tools, training, and
personnel
- Technology
- Parish Life
- Communications
- Brand experience
- Religious education
- Digital presence


“We’re very loved and
appreciated by our
families...It’s a unique
place to work...I’ve never
felt the collaborative and
support nature with my
co-workers that I’ve felt
here.”
- Librarian

4

Celebrate
Gather in friendship, family, and fellowship


“In general if you walk into a
friends house and you’re Italian…
you walk into the kitchen. It’s a
warm place. It’s a gathering
place… there are pictures on the
refrigerator. We need that.”
– Parishioner


“We don’t have family locally,
so we have found our family
through St. Francis.”

“I like getting a sense of
history with the pictures
around the school.”

– Parishioner and School Parent

– Student


INVITE

ENGAGE

INTERTWINE

CELEBRATE

SEEK NURTURE PLAY

+
◦ Multi-generational family
involvement and large families

◦ Post-weekday morning mass
coffee ritual

◦ Active post-Gym mass fellowship

◦ Meetings in cafés and at homes
could ﬁnd home on the Parish
campus

◦ Network-based community of
teachers
◦ Vibrant social community and
annual events (Showcase,
Summerfest, etc)

◦ No accessible “warm” homey
spaces for aging or differentlyabled Parishioners
◦ Disconnection between kitchen
and gathering spaces
◦ Opportunity for more PREPSchool family integration
◦ Opportunity to shared Mass
gathering experiences


Let’s support the social as
well as spiritual life of the
community at the core of
the St. Francis culture.
• Home-like experiences
- Kitchen
- Front Porch
- Living room
• Reveal history and future through
design
- Bring archives to life
- Look forward together
- Celebrate families of Parish

Interactive Kitchen Imagery
from Workshop Visual listening exercise

“We are a community of lifelong learners.
Not only do we focus in on the education
of children, but the importance of the
education of adults. We need to feed
that spiritual life.”
Parish Staff

5

Seek
Uplift lifelong learning and spiritual growth


“If we’re gathering in the Xavier room
and there’s a basketball game, it’s not
attractive for adults....It’s not conducive
for reﬂection and spirituality.”
Parish Staff

Parish staff


Let’s expand opportunities
to study, seek, and create
together.
• Prepared learning environments
• New classroom growth with ﬂexible
collaboration space
• Flexible, adult-appropriate meeting
and learning spaces


“I wish I could incorporate
the reﬂection I have at
Church on Sunday into my
everyday life? How can I drop
in and say a prayer?”
–Parishioner at a workshop

6

Nurture
Nourish relationships and reﬂection


“Make sure that even as we
grow, each child has
somebody who they have a
relationship with... somebody
knows them”
-Teacher


“Nurture the growth of small faith-sharing communities, "little
parishes" within the larger parish, that would meet regularly, in
homes, for scripture study, faith sharing and prayer, support
and socializing, family activities, outreach in service–being
church in small face-to-face groups.”
– Parishioner in Survey


“Sometimes we need
privacy... for phone
calls, to meet with
each other, parents,
our students.”
– Teacher

“[In the ofﬁce] what starts
out as a simple
conversation often turns
into a private
conversation.
Sometimes it can be hard
to transition in the
moment and give people
the same comfort level.
You want to shepherd
those people [but the
space prevents it].”
-Secretary on intimacy


“People are hungry for talking to
one another about the struggles
they’re having... to share wisdom
between parents of all ages on
parenting and relationships...
We have to keep nourishing and
feeding people to give them what
they need to continue their journeys
in life.”
–Parish staff

Let’s create a restorative
atmosphere built on
counseling relationships,
peaceful pause, and a sense
of continuity and intimacy.

• Scales of intimacy and privacy
- Parish ofﬁce: Spiritual Guidance,
Ministry of Care, Informal counsel
- School: Social worker, nurse, special
education, Religious Education
- Small group and Private spaces
• Peaceful pockets inside and out
- Reading and conversation nooks
- Natural nooks


“From the school side, focus on what is important…academics (mind), faith (spirit), and
ﬁtness (body). SFX does a good job at the ﬁrst two, but we are way behind other
schools in nurturing our bodies.”
- Parishioner in survey

7

Play
Move the body with the spirit and mind


INVITE

ENGAGE

INTERTWINE CELEBRATE SEEK NURTURE

PLAY

+
◦ The gym is used from 8:00am to
8:00pm nearly all week long

◦ Parishioners rate “Athletics” and
“Outdoor play” least supported
by the SFX physical campus

◦ Active culture across SFX Parish

◦ Students have gym two days a
week and compete with events
and sports

◦ Desire to increase natural play
and learning, especially in early
years

◦ Outdoor ﬁeld often out of
commission due to conditions
◦ Parking lot as play lot and limited
play areas

HOW WELL DO YOUR SPACES CURRENTLY SUPPORT?
TOTALLY
SUPPORTS

7.0

6.32

5.99

5.3

4.93

5.08
4.72

4.66

4.99
4.63

4.87

4.67

5.00
4.48
3.59

3.5

3.76

1.8
DOES NOT
SUPPORT

0


Worship

Holidays

Social

Adult Ed

Reflection

Collaboration

PREP

ACTION

School

Families

Seniors

Service

Outdoor Play

Athletics

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