SHC Parish Pastoral Survey on Top 3 Parish

SHC Parish Pastoral Survey on Top 3 Parish Pastoral Priorities (PPP) 21 st, 22 nd April, 2007. Dr. Damian Lee 17. 07. 2007

Parish Pastoral Survey Rationale & Background 1. Feedback from 130 delegates who attended 2. 3. 2006 Parish discernment weekend. Feedback from non-group Sunday Mass Parishioners. Proper feedback from 1 & 2 will facilitate Parish to address the 3 top PPP with more relevant, effective and efficient Pastoral processes, strategies and focus.

Purposive Samples Used • • • • Discernment weekend delegates. 130 400 Sunday Mass goers in SHC parish BM 100 Sunset Mass 100 7. 00 am Chinese Mass 100 9. 00 am Mass 100 St Simon 100 CMI Sunset Mass 50 9. 00 am Mass 50 Total 730

Samples demographics • Out of every 100 respondents : • 30 from the youth – 13 to 25 years • 30 from Married couples – 26 to 45 years • 30 from Married couples - 46 to 56 years • 10 Senior citizens • 100

SHC Parish Pastoral Survey on Top 3 Parish Pastoral Priorities (PPP) PARTICULARS of FRESPONDENTS SHC ST. CH. CH BM 9 AM SUNSET SIMON CMI 7: 00 AM SUNSET SEX Male 32 55 47 26 46 19 32 Female 48 53 43 28 53 12 37 No answer 10 Total 90 108 93 54 99 33 69 Single 25 53 28 25 23 9 40 Married 56 55 65 25 76 18 30 9 3 3 2 MARITAL STATUS No answer 90 93 4 99 31 70

SHC Parish Pastoral Survey on Top 3 Parish Pastoral Priorities (PPP) STATUS Teenager 5 17 6 7 9 3 11 Youth 9 9 8 4 0 0 10 Working Adults 16 27 21 10 28 PYC 18 21 20 2 24 4 20 POC 25 1 10 9 14 PWC 2 14 0 0 20 6 0 13 22 25 13 11 7 3 2 4 3 2 0 0 3 99 30 78 SC Others 90 93 3 BELONGING TO ANY GROUP Group 24 40 21 19 59 17 35 Non Group 66 69 67 34 38 14 42 No Answer 0 5 0 2 0 99 31 90 93 77

The 3 most serious issues facing Family SHC 9 am SHC Sunset 1. Internet pornor - pornoyoung 2. Dadah (drug) addiction 3. Young behav. issue Dadah(drug) addiction Internet pornomarried men St. Simon CMI Chinese 7 am Chinese Sunset (CMI) Internet pornoyoung Dadah/ Drugs addiction Negative impact of the ICT Internet pornoyoung Dadah Cigarrete addiction Young with psycho. Issue Internet porno- young Young with behav. Issue Dadah Internet pornomarried men Negative impact of the ICT addiction BM Mass

Top 3 resources to help address family issues CMI 9 am SHC 9 am SHC sunset ST. Simon 1. Counsellin services Counselling Services Ministries 2. Parish office- greater role Ministries Counsellings vcs 3. Youth resources Full time pastoral workers Parish officegreater role Full time pastoral workers CH. 7 am CH. Sunset BM Ministries Counselling services Counselling svcs Ministries Parish officegreater role Full time pastoral worker Family resouce faclities

Top 3 activities to help address Family issues BM SHC. 9 am SHC. sunset ST. Simon CMI CH. 7 am CH. Sunset 1. Spiritual Seminar /talks Spiritual Sems/ Talks Spiritual sems/ talks 2. Marriage and parenting sem. Marriage/ Family enting sems Awareness/ educati onal sems Youth Marriage/pa holiday renting camps sems Bible study Marriage/p arentin g sems 3. Bible study visits Bible study Marriage/pa renting sems Family visits

Top 3 ways to withstand pressure of society SHC 9 am SHC Sunset St. Simon CMI CH. 7. 00 am CH. Sunset BM Having 1. Attending Meals mass together Attending Mass together Having meals together Attending Mass together 2. Having prayers together Having prayer together Having meals together Attending Having meals mass together Having prayers together 3. Having meals together Attending mass together Having prayer together Having prayers together Having meals together Having prayers together Joining familybased groups

Reaching out to Parishioners 1. Is Catholic Church effective in its reaching out programs? SHC 9 AM SHC SUNSET S. Simon CMI CH 7 AM CH CMI BM TOUCHED 70% 64% 62% 46% 54% 52% 59% EFFECTIVE 40% 34% 35% 10% 36% 29% 33%

Reaching out to Parishioners 2. Catholic teaching has strong influence on values system SHC 9 am SHC SS St. SI CMI CH. 7 am CH. SS BM YES 70% 55% 74% 65% 52% 40% 55% NO 1% 5% 7% 2% 2% 2% 1% SOMETIMES 14% 20% 15% 20% 24% 22% 12% NOT SURE 2% 7% 2% 5% 10% 3% 9%

Reaching out to Parishioners 3. Whose responsibility to reach out to parishioners? Bishops/priests/ religious SHC 9 am SHCSS SS CMI CH 7 am CH. SS BM 6% 3% 5% 6% 37% 3% 9% 10% 12% 14% 7% 13% 5% 26% 26% 37% 23% 30% 46% 54% 48% 30% 35% 27% 6% 2% 35% 2% 16% 3% 27% PPC/Church workers etc All above All baptized Catholics 43% Holy Spirit 1% No Answer 7%

Reaching out to Parishioners 4. Perception of SHCP church leaders SHC 9 SHCss SS CMI C 7 am CSS BM (a) & (b) - good 75% 70% 50% 47% 52% 59% ( c ) & (d) - no good 10% 13% 11% 20% 28% 26% 2% (e) - other opinion No Answer 3% 10% 13% 7% 5% 23% 3% 21% 1% 42% 38%

Catholic Faith Formation 1. Overall assessment of faith among Catholic parishioners SHC 9 AM SHC SS St. Sim CMI CH 7 AM CH Sun BM 1 & 2 (know all) 24% 14% 20% 4% 17% 29% 22% 3 (average) 29% 45% 35% 52% 31% 26% 21% 4 & 5 (very little) 8% 10% 14% 10% 21% 3% 8% No Answer 39% 35% 30% 34% 30% 48%

Catholic Faith Formation 2. Percentage of right answers - FFTF, FFTT (percentage of those who got right answers) S 9 I (Eucharist) II (Mother Mary) III (General) SSS SS CMI C 7 Css BM 57% 56% 63% 61% 53% 48% 57% 42% 59% 50% 53% 38% 61% 48% 68% 46% 68% 43% 50% 32%

Catholic Faith Formation 3. Learning more about Catholic Faith SHC 9 am SHCss 28% 23% b & e (No) 3% 0 c (maybe) 50% d (yes but no time) 13% No answer 12% a (yes & attending program) SS CMI CH. 7 25% 20% 31% 5% CH. ss BM 39% 16% 2% 3% 1% 45% 41% 57% 32% 26% 23% 17% 10% 20% 16% 22% 11% 13% 16% 37%

Catholic Faith Formation 4. What is your opinion about the faith formation programmes in SHC? a (don't know any) S 9 SSS 21% 23% SS 38% CMI 41% b (Not interesting) 1% 12% 8% 10% 14% 16% c & d (Ok/informative) 56% 47% 45% 23% 53% 64% 29% 3% 2% 4% 20% 16% 17% 22% e (Other church is better) No answer 3% C. 7 7% 6% C. Ss BM 6% 23% 0% 0 0 19% 47%

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