Sowing Seeds, Bearing Fruit: A Five-Year Process for Growing a Singing Congregation

Year One: Gathering information about the parish and its people

Year Two: Building on existing strengths, forming the assembly and its ministers

Year Three: Various approaches to building a parish repertoire, annual repertoire summaries

Year Four: Maintaining the repertoire, dealing with the occasional "dry spell"

Year Five: Maintaining stability and doing recruitment, ensuring future success