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Evangelization
Look Who’s Coming to Dinner! It’s a None!
Friends, I hope you are smiling at the title–it’s meant to be lighthearted. We are happy to announce our next webinar, and after polling many of you on best topics, this one beat them all: what can we do about…
Top Ten Quotations on Evangelization: Pope St. John Paul II
Photo: Gregorini Demetrio, CC BY-SA 3.0 Few voices in the modern Church have spoken more clearly or passionately about evangelization than St. John Paul II.His 27-year papacy unfolded amid enormous cultural change—rising secularism, political upheaval, and rapid globalization. In that…
Discerning The Lord’s Vision for Your Parish
“Where there is no vision, the people perish.” Discover God’s specific plan for your community with this full-day or three-evening workshop. Susan will guide your pastor and key team members in understanding the biblical basis of vision, separating it from…
Create Your Own Evangelization Workshop
With Dr. Susan’s help, create a workshop custom-tailored to your particular situation. She can help on any aspect of mission in your parish, including: mission field analysis, discipleship level assessment, visioning and mission statement creation,
evangelization models education, mission shift…
Faith Formation
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Apost0lic Parish
Are Parishes Addicted to a Maintenance Culture?
Welcome back to another “Starting Conversations” article, designed to provoke and create new discussions on living as missionary discipleships and fostering parish evangelization. This article presumes familiarity with the language of moving “from maintenance to mission,” found in Fr. James…
Are We “Passively Despising” Our Young Adults?
Welcome back to our “Starting Conversations” series, a set of shareable articles for parish staffs, councils, and small groups. Share this prompt with your community and have a good conversation that leads to understanding, assessment, and thoughtful action for evangelizing…
The Need for Apostolic Leadership (and Why It Changes Everything)
I have to admit that back when I was a college professor, I got heartily tired of all the academic effusion about teaching leadership, offering leadership studies, and more. Even though I had a lot of genuine admiration for the…
The Bigger Problem: How Do We Fund the Great Commission When We’re Just Scraping By?
Welcome back to the conclusion of our three part series on funding the Great Commission. Two weeks ago we introduced Part 1: Do you need money to foster an apostolic parish? One week ago, Part 2: Is your parish keeping…
Apostolic Leadership
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Prayer
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Missions
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Social Mission
Three “11th Hour” Ways to Invite People to Your Church for Christmas
As we publish this, it is the Feast of the Immaculate Conception…this year, December 9th. That means there are 16 days to Christmas–or less if you read this later. Admittedly, the best time to plan a Christmas invitation campaign is…
How Do We Invite Family Members Back to Faith?
Without question, this is what I get asked more than any other evangelization question–in parishes, through email, in conversation. Why doesn’t my son/daughter/spouse/sibling go to Church anymore? Why doesn’t the worship of God seem to matter to them? If you…
15 Minutes on the Eucharistic Revival and Evangelizing Women with Julianne Stanz
Friends, I am grateful to share a recent interview I had with Julianne Stanz. Her work in promoting evangelical catechesis and discipleship at the parish level, diocesan level, and beyond is well known. Some of you know her through her…
Look Who’s Coming to Dinner! It’s a None!
Friends, I hope you are smiling at the title–it’s meant to be lighthearted. We are happy to announce our next webinar, and after polling many of you on best topics, this one beat them all: what can we do about…