Prevoznik Heins has three basic goals. Too many times such skills are taken for granted until they are discovered lacking long after the damage has been done to feelings and organizing potential. I think talking about 'Salt and Light' is one thing. Diocesan social ministry directors across the country apparently agree. Asked what would top their wish lists for improving the way parishes try to fulfill the church's social mission, they repeatedly cite training and organizing-skills development.
People worry about recruitment and want to know what to do about it all the time.
They always come up with bulletin announcements to recruit people and they're always frustrated when it doesn't work. Prevoznik Heins asks. While it might be ideal if all parish leaders had the chance to enroll in a program like the one Prevoznik Heins offers, it's also true that some folks seem capable of picking up their organizing skills on the fly. For instance, her Austin parish's adult-singles community has agreed to sponsor and staff a mentoring program with students at a nearby youth center. Keeping things concrete is perhaps the major strategy Nonnie Andre has learned in the years she has devoted to the social-justice committee at Corpus Christi Parish in Roseville, Minnesota.