How often have we heard the sayings, “It’s harder than it looks” and “If it were easy everyone would be doing it”? These sayings were never more appropriate than when they are applied to the field of parish management and operations. Every how and why detail in parish management and operations . . . is in fact a lot harder than it looks. In part one of chapter ten, Michael Brinda talks about how PMO and the Parish Mission Statement have a co-dependent relationship.