1. Beginnings

To start, I’d like to learn about your beginnings in our parish / organization / ministry / community.

a. What first attracted you to our parish / organization / ministry / community?
b. What were your initial excitements and impressions when you began here?

2. Most life-giving experience—a best moment or high point

Looking at your entire experience in our parish / organization / ministry / community, can you recall a time when you felt most alive, most proud and committed, most enthused about the parish / organization / ministry / community?

Tell the story of what made this such a fulfilling experience. What was it about you and others that made it so?

3. Things most valued

What do you value most about ...

(a) yourself—as a person and a Catholic parishioner or staff member?

(b) the nature of your involvement and ministry here?

(c) the parish / organization / ministry / community and what it has contributed to your life?

4. Core image that best reflects what gives life to our parish / organization / ministry / community

As you think about the parish / organization / ministry / community in general, what is the core image or factor that reflects what most gives life and represents its most essential, life-giving quality?

5. Three wishes and hopes

If you could imagine or transform our parish / organization / ministry / community in any way you wished, what three things would you do to enhance its life and vitality?