Vision outlined in District’s Strategy On A Page

As part of the continuing preparations for the second District Mission Assembly in February, the Leadership Team have begun to share the recently developed Strategy On A Page (SOAP).

This strategy is intended to help provide a clear focus and understanding of our aims in the District as we develop concrete plans for sustaining the Lasallian Mission in both the short and long term future.

This Strategy On A Page (SOAP) was developed between September 2021 and December 2021.  The District worked with Caplor Horizons (a training NGO that has extensive experience working with our Institute globally and other Congregations in Ireland and GB, among many others) to lead us all through a process of consultation and reflection. 

At the time, all members of all three MEL Committees, the District Young Lasallian Council, Vocations Team, and the District MEL Council across the District were invited and encouraged to feed into this process of consultation and to identify current and future challenges and opportunities. 

We have been having very good feedback about it.  We are confident that the outcome is a strong, succinct, clear and representative document that will be a useful tool if communicated and implemented effectively.  The three identified 5-year strategic objectives have also become the three themes of the District Mission Assembly in Malta in February.

Horizon Statements

The preparations for the second District Mission Assembly will take a significant step forward in the first week of the New Year when the Horizon Statements from each of the three Pre-Assembly thematic groups will be shared.

The three groups have met collectively and individually on a number of occasions since the beginning of November as part of the process of initiating reflection.

Comprising individuals from all ministry types, all countries, and all Lasallian vocations across the diverse educational systems, the groups engaged in in-depth discussion on matters crucial to sustaining the Lasallian Mission in the District.

Following the very positive, realistic and productive gatherings, the meetings help focus minds on the current realities in our schools and centres.

As a result, the Office of Mission is in a position to reflect those thoughts and ideas in three Horizon Statements that will be distributed in early January.

Lasallians throughout the District will have the opportunity to consider those ideas and provide feedback, which will help focus the direction of February’s Mission Assembly in Malta.