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Membership Planning
  • A Perspective
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Today’s Presentation
  • Importance
  • Issues
  • Perspective
  • Action Plans
  • Call to Action
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What is Serra—a review
  • Catholic
  • Lay People
  • Dedicated
  • Love of Church
  • Love of ministry
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Serra USA Mission
  • …is to foster and affirm vocations to the ordained priesthood and vowed religious life in the United States and, through this ministry, our members' common Catholic faith.
  • Through prayer, awareness, affirmation and support
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Serra: State of Membership
  • FLAT
    • Good??
    • Bad??
    • Local!?!?
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Membership Health—Your Club
  • Number Trends
  • Lost Members
    • Why?
  • New Members
    • Trend
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Membership Health—Your Club
  • Activity base
  • Diversity
  • Leadership
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Membership Health—Your Club
  • Age
  • Age
  • Age
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AGE…is our strength!!
  • Experienced
  • Mature
  • Wisdom filled
  • Faith developed
  • Commitment
  • Special talents
  • Relationships
  • Connected
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Age status…
  • Average Age
  • Trend
  • “Ideal” age?
  • Mean Age
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Club:
“State of the Membership”
  • Discussed
  • Agreed
  • Verbalized
  • Written
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New Members—The Target
  • The “Who”
  • The “How”
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New Members - ”The Who”
  • Daily Church Goers
  • Council members
  • School boards
  • Bible study groups
  • Eucharistic Ministers
  • Choir members
  • Lectors
  • Etc.
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The  “How”—Action Plans
  • Epiphany
  • To Inspire
  • To Motivate
  • YOU!
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Approach to New Members
  • Gifting of Serra
  • Hire it Done
  • The Power of Many
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Approach to New Members
  • Power of the Clergy
  • “Ask and you shall receive.”
  • Location, Location, Location
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Approach to New Members
  • THE LIST!
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…best of times, worst of times...
  • Membership critical!
  • Critical:  NOW!!
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Who Among You…
  • “Be not afraid”


  • Then said the Lord to Paul in the night by a vision, Be not afraid, but speak, and hold not thy peace… Acts 18:7-11