Ministry Assessment Process

The Ministry Assessment Process (MAP) enables parishes and regions across the Diocese of New Westminster to make informed, spirit-led decisions about their future missions and ministries, and then to determine how best to use their land and buildings to support those ministries. It was approved by Diocesan Synod in May 2007.

Further details of the process can be found on the Diocesan Website.

The Parishes involved in this process are St. Catherine, Port Coquitlam; St. Laurence, Coquitlam; St. John the Apostle, Port Moody; St. Margaret of Scotland, Burnaby; St. Stephen the Martyr, Burquitlam; and St. Timothy, Burnaby.

There are five stages in the process: initiation, design of the process, collection and assessment of information, decision-making, and implementation.

Notes on the initial meeting can be found here.

In April 2011, we had a series of consultations on aspects of our ministry:

• Buildings Forum (April 3).

• Finances Forum (April 10).

• People Forum (April 17).

Our Parish Summary can be found here.

On September 25, 2011, we had a special vestry meeting. The recording is below.

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On January 14, 2011 we had a Messy MAP meeting. The transcript can be found here.