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Locality Reporting Calendar
| DELIVERABLE | DUE DATE | INFORMATION |
|---|---|---|
| Locality's Evangelizing Focus | March 1 (every 6 years) | Details |
| Locality Annual Report (includes information for annual bishop's report) | July 31 | Details |
| Locality Annual Plan | July 31 | Details |
| Locality Annual Budget | July 31 | Details |
| Consecrated Personnel Requests | September 30 |
Locality Evangelization Planning
A locality’s Evangelizing Focus, as the name suggests, is a plan for how the Regnum Christi family present in a locality will collaborate in apostolic action to make the Kingdom of Christ present in the hearts of all people and in society (SRCF 7). While every section and RC institution has their own outreach efforts, the process of defining a locality’s evangelizing focus is about discerning where God is calling Regnum Christi to evangelize within that particular society.
A locality’s evangelizing focus spans six years, following the same cycle as Regnum Christi territorial and general assemblies, and provide the overarching context within which annual locality planning occurs. Various online resources are available to support the discernment of the evangelizing focus, which can then be summarized on a one-page Locality Evangelization Placemat.
Timeline
- October-February: The locality prepares their pre-discernment workup and holds their evangelization planning workshop.
- February 28: The locality submits their 6-year evangelizing focus.
- Throughout March: The locality rep and TDC delegate review the evangelizing focus and then present it to the TDC for final review and approval.
Sample Evangelizing Focus
Submission Templates
- The evangelizing focus is submitted to the locality’s RC locality rep by February 28.
- Evangelizing Focus: submitted to the locality’s RC locality rep via email using the template HERE.
Evangelization Planning Resources
- Locality Evangelization and Annual Planning Timeline HERE
- Locality Evangelization Planning – Facilitator’s Guide HERE
- Priority Mission Fields and Mission Field-driven Personnel Priorities – Examples HERE
- Locality Evangelization Workshop – Discernment Dynamic HERE
Detailed information on locality evangelization planning is available here.
Annual Report
The annual report is primarily a discernment tool that helps your locality review the progress made over the past year, within the context of your annual planning and budgeting, and your 6-year evangelizing focus. To do so, the report walks you through an analysis of your annual priority mission field—driving goals and your annual health and growth goals. It also allows you to highlight anything you feel is important for your locality rep and the TDC delegate to know, and gathers the information needed for the reports we as a territory send to the RC General Directive College, and for your Annual Bishop’s Report – information shared with your local bishop regarding Regnum Christi’s presence and action as part of the local Church. In some cases, a locality may spread over more than one diocese and thus more than one bishop report is required of that locality. The annual report includes all of this information and covers the previous August-July.
Some key information such as number of teams and overall associated membership is not included in this report. Your locality rep will gather it directly from the RC Thriving Tool and the RC Member Registry.
Timeline
- July 31: The locality submits their annual report, along with their annual plan and budget for the coming year.
- Thoughout August: The locality rep, TDC delegate, and RC Federation administrator review the proposed annual plan and budget.
- August 31: Annual plans and budgets will be approved by the end of August.
- Throughout August-September: Using the locality annual report, the locality rep and the MST re-work the necessary information for the annual bishop’s report, optimizing the format and terminology for each locality to share with their local bishop.
- September 30:Â Annual bishop’s report formats will be sent to each locality by the end of September. Each locality is then in charge of sharing that report with their local bishop, ideally by the end of October. A best practice is to send the report to the diocese via email, and follow up with an in-person meeting between the bishop and key locality leadership. In some cases you will need to coordinate with the local LC superior or the LC territorial director on who shares the report with the local bishop.
- Throughout September:Â The locality prepares their consecrated personnel (LCs, LCRCs, CRCs) requests for the following June.
- September 30:Â Deadline for the locality to submit personnel requests.
Sample Annual ReportÂ
Submission Templates
- The annual report is submitted to the locality’s RC locality rep by July 31, together with the annual plan and budget for the coming year.
- Annual Report: submitted via Google Form HERE.
- Annual Plan: submitted to the locality’s RC locality rep via email using the template HERE.
- Annual Budget: submitted to the locality’s RC locality rep via email using the template HERE.
Annual Plan
The Locality Annual Plan sets out concrete goals for the year, helping to focus locality leadership on what is most important for the local mission. The RC director works with locality leadership to agree on one-year goals in two areas:
- The locality’s priority mission fields as set out in the locality’s 6-year evangelizing focus.
- The locality health and grow areas necessary to execute on the priority mission fields.
The annual plan is submitted, via the RC locality rep, to the TDC delegate for their approval, by July 31st. The annual plan covers August-July.
Annual planning is how the locality turns their evangelizing focus into apostolic action. Here are resources to help you through a fruitful planning process:
- Locality evangelization planning is the context for annual priority mission field—driving goals: you can find the full set of resources HERE.
- For locality health and growth areas, see the RC Thriving Tool HERE.
- Annual Planning Timeline: HERE
- Annual Planning Workshop: Resources and facilitator’s guide HERE.
Timeline
- July 31: The locality submits their annual report, along with their annual plan and budget for the coming year.
- Thoughout August: The locality rep, TDC delegate, and RC Federation administrator review the proposed annual plan and budget.
- August 31: Annual plans and budgets will be approved by the end of August.
- Throughout August-September: Using the locality annual report, the locality rep and the MST re-work the necessary information for the annual bishop’s report, optimizing the format and terminology for each locality to share with their local bishop.
- September 30:Â Annual bishop’s report formats will be sent to each locality by the end of September. Each locality is then in charge of sharing that report with their local bishop, ideally by the end of October. A best practice is to send the report to the diocese via email, and follow up with an in-person meeting between the bishop and key locality leadership. In some cases you will need to coordinate with the local LC superior or the LC territorial director on who shares the report with the local bishop.
- Throughout September:Â The locality prepares their consecrated personnel (LCs, LCRCs, CRCs) requests for the following June.
- September 30:Â Deadline for the locality to submit personnel requests.
Sample Annual PlanÂ
Submission Templates
- The annual plan is submitted to the locality’s RC locality rep by July 31, together with the annual budget, and the annual report for the previous year.
- Annual Report: Submitted via Google Form HERE.
- Annual Plan: Submitted to the locality’s RC locality rep via email using the template HERE.
- Annual Budget: Submitted to the locality’s RC locality rep via email using the template HERE.
As apostles for Christ, we don't have time to work on everything — nor do we need to — so by intentionally picking a few concrete, higher-priority areas to focus on, we give people direction, peace, and confidence.
Annual Budget
The annual budget for the locality is prepared by the locality and submitted, via the RC locality rep, to the RC Federation administrator for their approval, by July 31st. The territorial budget cycle is January through December.
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The budget presents a consolidated picture of the locality’s financial plan, rolling up section budgets, locality operations, and the financial contributions to communities, apostolates, and the territory. The territory provides a sample template for submitting the locality budget.
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The detailed budgets for the Legionary or consecrated communities in the locality are developed simultaneously and submitted in a parallel process through their respective branches. Communication between the locality and the communities is important to ensure clear expectations around fundraising and financial support.
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In evaluating the budgets, the RC Federation administrator is looking to confirm: 1) alignment between the locality plan and the budget; 2) evidence of fiscal responsibility within the locality; and 3) evidence of commitment to financially support the mission in the territory.
Timeline
- July 31: The locality submits their annual report, along with their annual plan and budget for the coming year.
- Thoughout August: The locality rep, TDC delegate, and RC Federation administrator review the proposed annual plan and budget.
- August 31: Annual plans and budgets will be approved by the end of August.
- Throughout August-September: Using the locality annual report, the locality rep and the MST re-work the necessary information for the annual bishop’s report, optimizing the format and terminology for each locality to share with their local bishop.
- September 30:Â Annual bishop’s report formats will be sent to each locality by the end of September. Each locality is then in charge of sharing that report with their local bishop, ideally by the end of October. A best practice is to send the report to the diocese via email, and follow up with an in-person meeting between the bishop and key locality leadership. In some cases you will need to coordinate with the local LC superior or the LC territorial director on who shares the report with the local bishop.
- Throughout September: the locality prepares their consecrated personnel (LCs, LCRCs, CRCs) requests for the following June.
- September 30: deadline for the locality to submit personnel requests.
Submission Templates
- The annual budget is submitted to the locality’s RC locality rep by July 31, together with the annual plan, and the annual report for the previous year.
- Annual Report: submitted via Google Form HERE.
- Annual Plan: submitted to the locality’s RC locality rep via email using the template HERE.
- Annual Budget: submitted to the locality’s RC locality rep via email using the template HERE.
Questions? Contact Todd Brechbill at Tbrechbill@RCActivities.com
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Budget Templates:
- The 2027 Locality Budget Roll-up template in the exact format that needs to be submitted by July 31st, 2026.
- There are three different section budget templates that section directors could use depending on the local need:
- A simple annual section budget format in roll-up format (used by most sections)
- An event-by-event budget format that is helpful for sections that run a lot of events (used by many ECYD sections)
- A more comprehensive month-by-month budget format that allows for cash forecasting and monthly tracking (used by some RC sections)
Budgeting Considerations:
- Your local Legionary and Consecrated community’s needs.
- 2027 RC Territorial Conventions, Summits, etc. Please check the 2027 calendar at https://www.regnumchristi.com/en/calendar-mst/ for budgeting to help send your local leaders to these events and plan accordingly.
- Please consider sponsoring:
- ECYD summer missionaries (about $1000 – $1400 per missionary)
- A residence for an ECYD Mission Corps site in your locality (use of a house for 4-8 ECYD Missionaries for about three weeks in June or July)
- ECYD national convention or local summer camp scholarships
- Local RC Mission Corps missionaries
- Young men to attend “Test your call” or the annual
“Ignition” retreat at the Legion of Christ College in Cheshire, CT. - LC’s/CRC’s/lay people who need a certificate course in spiritual direction to be
spiritual directors.
- Regular business
- Annual commercial liability insurance, plan a 15% increase (mid-August 2027)
- Annual QuickBooks license renewals at $200 each (January)
- Local contractors or employees (cost of living increase)
Regnum Christi Territorial Support: Please include an amount in your budget. We are asking that all localities participate in contributing to the RC Federation territory, even if it is a small amount to begin with. Thank you for your support!
Locality Resource Projection
The five-year locality resource projection is a tool RC directors, LC community superiors, and CRC community directors can use to support leadership succession planning and aid the Legionaries and Consecrated Women in their personnel projection and assignment decisions. The objective of the tool is to help make a realistic projection of the ongoing consecrated personnel needs to support the locality’s evangelizing mission.
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Ideally, the resource projection is built upon the locality’s evangelization planning and is prepared collaboratively by the RC director, the local community directors and other locality leaders. It is to be submitted by the RCD, with council approval, to their RC locality representative by September 30th each year. The template offered is for you to use and adapt to your reality. There are instructions in the document so you can personalize it accordingly.
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New template for Locality Resource Projection coming soon!
RC Thriving Tool
As the mission of Regnum Christi extends, so does the need to develop and grow Regnum Christi sections and localities. During annual planning, locality leaders endeavor to identify where to focus its efforts for the coming year. The Thriving Tool is a helpful resource to guide locality leaders in identifying and prioritizing the natural next steps to take in the development of a locality or section based on its current situation, and the health and growth needed for the locality to accomplish its evangelizing mission.
As the basis of the tool, we have identified six basic stages of locality and section development – from Spark to Innovating and Leading. In addition, we have identified 13 key elements to consider when looking to the holistic care, development and growth of a locality. Using the tool, the RC Director can identify which stage of development the locality (or section) is currently at for each element, and visualize what current thriving, and the next step in development, might look like.
Using the Tool: Each section and locality has its own unique dashboard. Contact your RC locality representative to receive a login and simple training on how to use it.
For more information click here.
6 Locality Development Stages
Stage 1: SparkÂ
Stage 2: FoundationsÂ
Stage 3: Established
Stage 4: Structural Stability
Stage 5: Engaged
Stage 6: Innovative and LeadingÂ
13 Locality Thriving Elements
- Locality Evangelization Planning
- Locality Leadership
- Adult SectionsÂ
- Young Adult SectionsÂ
- ECYD SectionsÂ
- RC Mission Corps
- Vocations
- Communications
- Communion & Collaboration with LC and CRC CommunitiesÂ
- Collaboration with RC institutionsÂ
- Collaboration with the local ChurchÂ
- Financial HealthÂ
- Administrative StabilityÂ
Section and Locality Volunteers
The greatest asset to an RC Activities section or locality are the men and women who dedicate their time and resources to assist in activities and formation. 
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The Volunteer Certification process  is required for all section and locality volunteers that work with youth programs or are in section or locality leadership roles. These policies strive to ensure the highest quality and reliability of personnel by means of responsible leadership, thus reducing the liability to RC Activities, the corporation they represent. 
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Download the RC Activities Volunteer Process presentation  and send it to prospective volunteers to help guide them with the RC Activities volunteer certification process.
Organizing Locality Events
If you are organizing a local event for youth, adults, or families, we are here to help support your administrative requirements.  Click here to register your local events on the RC Activities national event management website.
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You can download instructions to help guide you on the event management website.  
RCD Workshops
RCD workshops are ordinarily the first Wednesday of the month from 8-9 pm Eastern at this Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/8797740409
New Leadership Consultations
Information coming soon.
