Jun 19, 2026 · 21 min · 9 segments
A clear vision can inspire a parish, but it takes the right culture to bring that vision to life. In Part 2 of our *Building a Culture of Mission* series, we explore why collaboration is essential for…
Peter WojcikHostSo let's start with just crafting vision, as you said, like how do you, you know, if you're a new pastor, you're listening to us as I'm preparing again to take on St. Teresa of Avila in addition to St. Clement and serve the parishioners in the community there, something that I will do.
Tell folks, Marco, for us who are starting a new thing, How do we do it? How do we craft a vision? We've done it here at St.
Clement six years ago.
What was our process? It wasn't perfect, but it was really good.
So I will throw a bit of a curveball, right? Because I think the way to answer that is by first asking, what is vision? And what is a good vision? And I remember hearing this at one of the many things that we went through during our time together.
It said that vision should be a God-given picture of the future that inspires hope and passion in the hearts of those who hear it.
Right? And so think about that.
But it's something that is so... just mind-blowing, exciting, energizing, that it does nothing but inspire, not just hope about the future, but passion, wanting to do something about that, right? So I think that's an important context, right? That it's something that should be exciting image.
I think the second piece is, and I know I used the word craft, maybe I should use the word uncover.
Because I think vision, particularly in the church context, is not something that a group of people can just go off on their own and dream up and come up with.
It's actually something that I believe has to be discerned in community.
and be crafted in a way that brings all of the voices together and how the Holy Spirit is talking.
Right.
And so the way that we did it at St. Clement, I think it was two years ago already, which is kind of crazy to think we took The whole summer, really, a group of us, a combination of folks from the parish council, from the school board, from the finance council, and we, over the summer meeting, I think every two or three weeks with a facilitator, went through an intentional process of discernment, is what I would call it, discerning what do we feel that...
And so that's what we did.
We spent time together.
We ate meals together.
We had a bunch of like kind of team building exercises.
And then we had exercises that everyone's voice was heard, right? A lot of it was individual brainstorming and then conversations within groups and then conversations with a larger group.
And it was all about pattern recognition and just seeing what were the things that were coming together.
Right.
And as you step back, you were like, this is such a mess.
I remember that
So let's start with just crafting vision, as you said, like how do you, you know, if you're a new pastor, you're listening to us as I'm preparing again to take on St. Teresa of Avila in addition to St. Clement and serve the parishioners in the community there, something that I will do.
Tell folks, Marco, for us who are starting a new thing, How do we do it? How do we craft a vision? We've done it here at St.
Clement six years ago.
What was our process? It wasn't perfect, but it was really good.
So I will throw a bit of a curveball, right? Because I think the way to answer that is by first asking, what is vision? And what is a good vision? And I remember hearing this at one of the many things that we went through during our time together.
It said that vision should be a God-given picture of the future that inspires hope and passion in the hearts of those who hear it.
Right? And so think about that.
But it's something that is so... just mind-blowing, exciting, energizing, that it does nothing but inspire, not just hope about the future, but passion, wanting to do something about that, right? So I think that's an important context, right? That it's something that should be exciting image.
I think the second piece is, and I know I used the word craft, maybe I should use the word uncover.
Because I think vision, particularly in the church context, is not something that a group of people can just go off on their own and dream up and come up with.
It's actually something that I believe has to be discerned in community.
and be crafted in a way that brings all of the voices together and how the Holy Spirit is talking.
Right.
And so the way that we did it at St. Clement, I think it was two years ago already, which is kind of crazy to think we took The whole summer, really, a group of us, a combination of folks from the parish council, from the school board, from the finance council, and we, over the summer meeting, I think every two or three weeks with a facilitator, went through an intentional process of discernment, is what I would call it, discerning what do we feel that...
And so that's what we did.
We spent time together.
We ate meals together.
We had a bunch of like kind of team building exercises.
And then we had exercises that everyone's voice was heard, right? A lot of it was individual brainstorming and then conversations within groups and then conversations with a larger group.
And it was all about pattern recognition and just seeing what were the things that were coming together.
Right.
And as you step back, you were like, this is such a mess.
I remember that
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