Parishioner Engagement

Stabilization and Optimization

Welcome to ParishStaq Stabilization and Optimization Phase!

Our goals for this phase include new initiatives as well as following up on flow-over matters from Implementation. We continue to be grateful for all the work both at the parish and Chancery level. Special thanks to the members of our Steering Committee, Bryan Gummersall and Tom Martin, for their leadership and guidance. Also, thanks to Ed Clark for his data work! Bryan will continue with the PES Team as a consultant, sharing his expertise in areas of product development and support for campaigns (ACA & Stewardship). He continues to be a resource for data migration and many other issues.

We are fortunate to be able to continue to partner with Joseph Tancioco from the Lifelong Formation department in the Office of the Vicar General. Joseph will continue to support ad hoc Chancery trainings and parish role-based training. A recent example of role-based training was the release of videos for Faith Formation leaders (link).

Ruth Reiser continues to serve as our project admin assistant and will also take lead in role-based training for both Pastoral Care and parish administrative assistants. She will also help guide training in parish-to-parish de-duplication best practices. Yes, we are still working on those and will continue to whittle them down as everyone learns more about and becomes more proficient on profile management in ParishStaq ChMS.

Crystal Casas, data processor from Implementation, is now our data and business analyst. Crystal’s focus is to launch and facilitate a project that bridges data between ParishStaq and Raiser’s Edge. The first back-to-parish updates from this project are launching this month. This will be done in waves, so please look for emails from Crystal.

The team goals include: service to parishes, data integrity, and continued software adoption at both the Chancery and parish levels. We are transitioning to a once-per-month cadence of C2P releases, but will continue with special edition newsletters as Pushpay releases new features. We look forward to accompanying our Hispanic Ministry Leadership Community in their ParishStaq launch, supporting parishes with Partners in the Gospel, and promoting greater app use.

Thank you for all you do within ParishStaq!

Jennifer Wong, PES Team