The Parish Project: “Wellness Manual" is a six week program in parish spirituality. It attempts to recover our parish story, celebrate that story in liturgy and project a vision and plan for the future.

The project consists of three parts:

• Researching Church records, gathering once a week to discuss our findings, recording our discussions

over the six week period, recording our testimony of our  parish story, our weekly missions and

outreaches in bad times, as well as good.

• Holding six wellness liturgies, which will take place at the 10am service. These liturgies seek to

celebrate our Church’s story, heal differences and betrayals of our past, and point us to a prosperous

future.

• Reviewing our progress. This is largely the work of the LAC (Lay Advisory Committee), who will look

at the collated material. They will then attempt to put together a ‘wellness manual’ to show

guidelines for the future. These guidelines seek an alternate route to resolving problems other

than conflict. In doing so they will help project a vision for our future story.

We are currently in the third phase of this project which should culminate in the publication of a Parish Wellness Manual.

All parishioners are urged to participate. Please contact the Church office or Father Bill for more information:

                  Church Telephone: 570-296-8123

                  Church Email: office@goodshepherdmilford.org

                  Fr.Bill Email: wiliammcginty@hotmail.com

MATERIALS OF INTEREST:

• Purple Book - Excerpts from a (purple) book containing the history of our Church.
• The Parish Post - Excerpts from our parish newspaper back in the 1900's.