A committee from Saint Edward in Medfield and Saint Jude in Norfolk worked together on our pastoral plan in 2016. An overview of the plan is provided here, along with a link to the full plan. In this plan the committee created a mission statement and set goals – to improve our community, our faith and our Christian service – as individuals and as a collaborative.
Collaboratives exist because of the dwindling number of priests, but we see in our collaborative efforts great opportunity – for better and richer parish life, for a closer relationship with God, for more outreach to share the message of Jesus that “all are welcome,” for more and better service to those in need all around us, and for more and better opportunities to know, live and understand our faith.
The complete collaborative pastoral plan is found here.
Our mission statement is refined to one sentence, just 48 words: “The purpose of the Saint Edward the Confessor and Saint Jude Collaborative is to invite all to know God, to love God and to serve God so that we may be faithful to God’s plan for us in this world, and live with God forever in the next.”
We in this collaborative will: