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 * 1) Your Name and place of work (diocese, school, parish...)
 * 2) Title of Project
 * 3) Project description
 * 4) Project goals
 * 5) Technology to be used
 * 6) Audience description
 * 7) Projected timeline (break-down of the two month implementation
 * 8) Administrative Approval

== Please post your proposal below. Your Proposal Due Date is September 29, 2016. ==

Capstone Project Proposal

By Frances Peters

Project contact:

Sister Caroline Cerveny

Project Title : Coordinating Marriage Preparation online

For the Parish of Blessed Virgin Mary, Queen of Peace & St. Veronica

Project Description:

As the Parish Secretary for Blessed Virgin Mary, Queen of Peace Parish, part of my job is to oversee the wedding preparation from the moment a couple books the date of their wedding until they exchange their vows. I get all sorts of questions and sometimes I get unanswered phone calls. There has been times where the couples wait so long to do things that I have had to rush the paperwork to the Tribunal and hope it gets approved in time. The Tribunal has been great but couples need to understand the importance of a Catholic Wedding and the procedures that go with that. With this project I hope to have the couples, or at least one of them go to either the website or Facebook often and see what is going on.

I wish to create a more descriptive website page on our Parish Website www.queenofpeacehawley.com, a link to a closed Facebook page, where I can show our [the Parish] guidelines for weddings and links to Catholic sites ie: USCCB and such. Show the timeline in which our couples need to have paperwork done, and where we can talk [in writing] to see how things are progressing.

I can also have special prayers added in as we go. Give couples reminders when dates are coming up. If they have a certain question, they can ask me. Show pictures of our Church to couples who wish to marry here but do not live here. [I live in the Poconos]. Many non parishioner Catholics like to get married here.

Project Goals -


 * to guide couples through this wonderful process, smoothly, interactively
 * Create a downloadable Check-off list to stay on task.
 * Having couples stay on task without much stress, keeping the Sacrament of Marriage upfront, not the little things like the paperwork.
 * Possibly have newlyweds share pictures of wedding on Facebook page, possibly Website.
 * Create a link from Parish website to a closed Facebook page


 * Future Goal

This will be a limited page, but if this project takes, we may be able to use this concept for Baptisms and move on to our new families using the internet more, since the couples of today will be the parents of the Baptisms in the future. We would to be a more interactive community since a lot of our parishioners work weekdays and not always can come into the Rectory to sign up and fill out forms.

Audience- Newly engaged couples

Timeline: My timeline would mostly be preparing for the initial upload for the Website.

1 month -research other Parish Websites for ideas of Wedding preparations -Draft content for Parish Website -Collect and create online or downloadable forms and check off lists for couples -Research images, get approval for said images or create own images 1 week -get approval from Pastor on all material that is to be on new sites. 2 weeks -find out what closed social media sites young people use these days, get approval to create a site. Create site 1 week Get sites up and running

Technology Tools Social Media Site Email Parish website Animoto Pictures and editing

Budget: Unless a site costs something, there should be no cost

Approval: Pastor’s approval has already been obtained.

Follow up- After the two month period that the Capstone Project is over I will be working with the engaged couples for at least 6 months. I will be seeing how this works and getting the kinks out of the program. When the next couple sign up for a wedding and we walk through the steps together, from the beginning until their wedding day we should have a good idea of how this works.