web01.fireside.fm Wed, 06 May 2026 07:18:03 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Ascension Roundtable (Your Catholic Ministry Podcast) - Episodes Tagged with “Parish” https://ascensionroundtable.fireside.fm/tags/parish Wed, 29 Aug 2018 15:00:00 -0400 Catholic ministry professionals share stories and brainstorm solutions to common ministry challenges. en-us episodic Catholic ministry professionals share stories and brainstorm solutions to common ministry challenges. Ascension Catholic ministry professionals share stories and brainstorm solutions to common ministry challenges. no Catholic, Ministry, Leadership, Catholicism, Christianity Ascension ascensionroundtable@ascensionpress.com Ministry Minutes: Staff Changes https://ascensionroundtable.fireside.fm/79 97e5dfab-4731-4838-b1d7-b82dff395e53 Wed, 29 Aug 2018 15:00:00 -0400 Ascension full Ascension If you work in ministry, you are familiar with staff changes. From parishioners to volunteers to coworkers and the clergy, people often come and go in the parish. How should we react to these staff changes? 3:26 no <p>From his years of experience in youth ministry, Allen shares two things that kept him grounded when staff changes threatened to throw him off balance.</p> <ol> <li>It’s God ministry, we are merely stewards of it. When people leave, the ministry remains. There will always be people who need us to reach out and provide an opportunity to grow their relationship with Christ and the Church. </li> <li>Working with new people provides an opportunity to cast vision. Don’t look at it like another person you have to train or get caught-up, look at it like another person with whom you get to share your vision.</li> </ol> <p>&gt; <em>"People come and go in Church ministry, but the parish remains and the ministry remains. So it’s God’s ministry, we are simply stewards during this time. Our job is to continue to pray and discern what God’s will is with that ministry while we’re stewards of it."</em> </p> ministry, staff changes From his years of experience in youth ministry, Allen shares two things that kept him grounded when staff changes threatened to throw him off balance.

  1. It’s God ministry, we are merely stewards of it. When people leave, the ministry remains. There will always be people who need us to reach out and provide an opportunity to grow their relationship with Christ and the Church.
  2. Working with new people provides an opportunity to cast vision. Don’t look at it like another person you have to train or get caught-up, look at it like another person with whom you get to share your vision.

"People come and go in Church ministry, but the parish remains and the ministry remains. So it’s God’s ministry, we are simply stewards during this time. Our job is to continue to pray and discern what God’s will is with that ministry while we’re stewards of it."

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  1. It’s God ministry, we are merely stewards of it. When people leave, the ministry remains. There will always be people who need us to reach out and provide an opportunity to grow their relationship with Christ and the Church.
  2. Working with new people provides an opportunity to cast vision. Don’t look at it like another person you have to train or get caught-up, look at it like another person with whom you get to share your vision.

"People come and go in Church ministry, but the parish remains and the ministry remains. So it’s God’s ministry, we are simply stewards during this time. Our job is to continue to pray and discern what God’s will is with that ministry while we’re stewards of it."

]]> Ministry Minutes: Complaining Won't Help https://ascensionroundtable.fireside.fm/74 e8339344-ac44-4f3a-9343-f91240b7bc19 Wed, 25 Jul 2018 15:00:00 -0400 Ascension full Ascension At what point does necessary venting become useless complaining, and what can we do to stop ourselves? St. John of the Cross has some strong advice. 2:23 no complaining, ministry