Partners in Gospel is a strategic pastoral planning effort taking place across the Archdiocese of Seattle to re-invigorate and renew our local Catholic Church. It will bring most parishes together into a new family structure with two or more parishes. The pastor, parish leaders and parishioners will determine how this new family will best join as one parish to carry out the mission of the Church.
The proposed draft for our parish family would include St. John the Baptist (Covington) and Holy Spirit (Kent).
Over 2000 pages of input has been submitted to the Archdiocese. Twenty readers will parse through the information and report on their findings. In January, we will find out if the proposed family is the same. In April, the Archdiocese will announce priest assignments to the new parish families. Thanks to all for your participation in our listening sessions.
Archbishop Etienne has written a pastoral letter regarding Partners in the Gospel. He outlines the reasons behind restructuring our 136 parishes into 55 Parish Families and how each parish family can become one vibrant faith community. It will be difficult work, but done in a spirit of hope and collaboration can renew parish life and bring us the joy of being partners in the Gospel. To read his letter click on the button below.
