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Mission, Vision & Goals
Who We Are
Our Vision Statement
Prayer awakens. Justice impels. Compassion acts.
Thy Kingdom come.
Our Mission
Eager to welcome God's
transforming power in ourselves
and our world, we seek God together
through monastic profession and respond in healing
hospitality,
grateful simplicity and creative peacemaking.
Our Core Values
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Healing Hospitality
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Grateful Simplicity
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Creative Peacemaking
Our Goals: 2008 - 2020
Our goals are stated in present
tense to keep sharp pictures in our minds and hearts of
what our future will look like as we move closer to the
VISION. What is in parentheses are the values/issues
underlying the goals.
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We intentionally
manifest Benedictine spirituality in the world. (prayer,
healing hospitality, grateful simplicity, creative
peacemaking)
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We are a growing and
vibrant Benedictine community. (new membership)
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Our relationships
with our partners in ministry are mutually fulfilling,
supportive and valued. (employees, oblates, volunteers,
benefactors, local area, diocese, etc.)
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The public portrayal
of our monastic community’s image aligns with and
illustrates our values and mission. (communications and
marketing)
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Our corporate
ministries respond to needs, are broadly supported, and
are successful in generating revenue.
(spirituality/retreat ministry, museum, stewardship of
land)
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The monastic
community is financially viable. (sources of income,
business plans)
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Request Copies
of St. Gertrude's
2008 - 2009
Strategic Plan
Send a SASE to:
Monastery of St. Gertrude
Development Office
Attn: Strategic Plan Request
465 Keuterville Rd.
Cottonwood, ID 83522 |
The implementation of our 2008 -
2020 Strategic Plan is a major highlight of the
Monastery of St. Gertrude’s
Centennial “Celebrating 100 Years ‘at Home’ in
Idaho”. Between June 2007 and July 2008 Kathy Hagler of
Boise, ID, a professional group process facilitator,
worked with our community to develop a long-term
strategic plan. The process included engaging 45 men and
women beyond the monastery on a Planning Committee to
assist us in finding out how a broad cross-section of
people perceived the strengths, weaknesses,
opportunities and threats of St. Gertrude’s. The
resulting 3,000 pieces of information collected from 300
people were sorted, sifted and prayed over repeatedly by
the Planning Committee and the whole Benedictine
Community until they took shape as our new Vision
Statement:
Prayer awakens. Justice impels. Compassion acts. Thy
Kingdom Come.
Prioress Clarissa Goeckner explained how “with those
crucial words that would inspire us, shape us, empower
us and bring us into the future” we would address six
goals, each with strategies and action plans, to
implement this Vision by 2020. Hagler recommended
focusing on three or four strategies each year as an
achievable way to make our Vision a reality. Since
August 2008, Implementation Teams consisting of
monastery members and other Planning Committee members
have been diligently moving us ahead with this year’s
focus areas.
TAKE A LOOK at our 2008
- 2009
Strategic Plan Booklet and learn more.
Booklet is in PDF format.
Acrobat Reader is
FREE.
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LEARN
MORE about our new Vision Statement be reading the articles below. Articles
are in PDF format.
Acrobat Reader is
FREE.
Seeing 2020 with a New Vision Statement
By Prioress Clarissa Goeckner
What is short, unifying, presents a compelling
future, invites others into that future and requires organization
members to stretch their expectations, aspirations and ambitions to
accomplish a mission? Our new vision statement!
Prayer Awakens. Justice Impels. Compassion Acts. Thy Kingdom Come.” This
call excites our imagination, invites our hearts and stirs our energies
to create a preferred future for ourselves and others.
Read More...
Prayer Awakens
By Prioress Clarissa Goeckner
Prayer awakens. Justice
impels. Compassion acts. Thy Kingdom Come. Sounding the depths of our
new Vision Statement continues to be an adventure! Its brevity invites
deeper reflection, wider vision and greater heroism and generosity.
As we carefully chose those few words that would unite, energize and
lead us into the future, there were none more important than "Prayer
awakens." We knew prayer would be the foundation of whatever else we
decided.
Read More...
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