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Timeline of Collaborative
Efforts
Among the Waterloo Parishes
(1959-2010)
The Catholic Parishes in Waterloo have a long history of
collaborating to provide for the education, faith
formation and pastoral care of Catholics in the Cedar Valley.
Here are highlights of those efforts:
1959 --
The Catholic parishes in Cedar Falls, Evansdale and Waterloo
establish Columbus Catholic High School.
1971 -- Team ministry is inaugurated between St. John
and St. Nicholas
parishes. (The team
served these parishes until 1987.)
1975 -- St. John and St. Nicholas Catholic Schools are
consolidated.
1980 -- St. John-St. Nicholas Consolidated School Board
is formed.
1986 -- St. John-St. Nicholas Consolidated Religious
Education Board is
formed.
1987 -- Waterloo Catholic schools hire a joint
marketing director.
1988 -- Waterloo parishes establish CORE, a
cooperative religious
formation program for high school students
-- Waterloo parishes
adopt a uniform
policy for Confirmation
preparation.
1992 -- Waterloo Diocore introduces Faith/Life
Connections, a
cooperative adult formation program.
1994 -- Waterloo parishes begin celebrating Confirmation together.
-- Waterloo Diocore inaugurates First Tuesday,
a support and
enrichment program for married couples.
1995 -- Waterloo Diocore adopts Come Home (later
renamed Welcome
Home), an evangelization program for inactive and alienated
Catholics.
1997 -- Waterloo Diocore inaugurates Catholic Forum,
an adult formation
series which discusses critical issues in the church and
world.
1998 -- Blessed Sacrament, Sacred Heart, St. John and
St. Nicholas
parishes form Waterloo Catholic Youth Ministry (WCYM).
1999 -- St. Mary Parish joins Waterloo Catholic Youth
Ministry.
-- Sacred Heart, St. John and St. Nicholas
parishes inaugurate a
common catechumenate for the RCIA;
-- Blessed Sacrament and St. Mary
parishes share a common
catechumenate for the RCIA.
2001 -- St. John, St. Mary and St. Nicholas Schools are
consolidated.
-- Planning begins for
consolidation of Columbus High School,
Blessed Sacrament,
Sacred Heart, St. Edward and St. Mary
schools.
-- St. John and St. Nicholas religious education
programs are
consolidated.
2002 -- St. John, St. Joseph, St. Mary and St. Nicholas
parishes are
merged into Queen of Peace Parish.
-- Waterloo
parishes inaugurate a shared preparation program for
adult Confirmation.
-- Blessed Sacrament, Sacred Heart and Queen of
Peace parishes
inaugurate a common Catechumenate for RCIA.
-- Blessed Sacrament, Sacred
Heart and Queen of Peace
inaugurate a shared summer
vacation school program for
elementary age children.
2003 -- Blessed Sacrament, Queen of Peace, Sacred
Heart, St. Edward
and Columbus High
School are consolidated into Cedar Valley
Catholic Schools
system.
-- Pastors, Pastoral Associates and Directors of
Religious
Education in the Waterloo parishes begin meeting regularly.
(Waterloo Pastoral Leaders now meet
monthly.)
-- Blessed Sacrament, Sacred Heart and Queen of
Peace expand
common RCIA program to include the Pre-catechumenate,
Enlightment and Mystagogia phases.
2005 -- Waterloo parishes inaugurate a shared
program for baptism
preparation.
-- St. Edward Parish joins Waterloo Catholic Youth
Ministry.
2006 -- Waterloo parishes introduce the Rite of
Christian Reception for
Adults
(RCRA).
-- Waterloo Pastoral Leaders create a
vision statement and
strategic plan for the Waterloo parishes.
-- Waterloo parishes hire a
common Director
of Adult Faith
Formation.
2007 -- Education Committees from Blessed Sacrament,
Sacred Heart,
Queen of Peace and St. Edward meet to discuss common
opportunities and challenges in parish faith formation.
-- A metro catechetical planning committee is
created to study
expanding collaborative religious formation opportunities in
the
parishes.
2008 -- A joint meeting of pastoral councils and education
committees
approves the planning committee's recommendations to form a
metro Catechetical Commission (now called the Faith Formation
Commission).
-- An interim planning committee is formed to
develop plans for a
metro Commission and common catechetical plan for the
Waterloo parishes.
2010 -- The interim planning committee recommends to the
pastoral
councils and education committees
strategies and goals
for a
metro catechetical plan and a
constitution for the
Waterloo
Catholic Faith Formation Commission.
-- The pastoral councils endorse the interim
committee's
recommendations and approve the proposed constitution.
-- Elections are held to the Waterloo Catholic
Faith Formation
Commission.
2011 -- Waterloo parishes hold first metro vacation
bible school.
-- Waterloo parishes
introduce summer faith formation program.
-- Construction begins on
Blessed Maria Palotta Middle School.
2012 -- Summer faith formation program expanded to
include high
school.
-- Unified hiring process
adopted for parish Faith Formation
Directors.
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