Getting Your Parish Involved

Evangelization Updates
(Based on presentations to the Glenmary Commission on Evangelization)

• Why Catholics and Baptists Should Evangelize Together

Ideas That Work

• An Evangelizing Yeard Sale
• A Tasty Way to Take a Trip Around the World
• Educating for Inter-Church Understanding—Listening Sessions
• How to Open Your Parish Community to Others
• Making Evangelization the Filter for all Parish Activities
• Preparing for Ecumenical Listening Sessions
• Setting a Different Tone for Parish Business

Discussion/ Reflection/Starters

• Seven Be-Attitudes for Evangelizing Together
• So You Want to Evangelize With Another Church?

Reviews of Helpful Books/Media

• I am e3
  By Susan Blum Gerding, Ed.D. Jeremiah Press (2002).

• Evangelization Teams in the Making: A Catholic Parish Manual
  By Dorothy Hulburt and Priscilla Lemire, RJM. Jeremiah Press, 2000. $9.95.

• Lay Ministers, Lay Disciples, Evangelizing Power in the Parish. By Susan Blum Gerding and FrankDeSiano, CSP. New York: Paulist Press, 1999.

• Yearning to be One: Spiritual Dialogue Between Catholics and Methodists. Joint publication by USCC and Discipleship Resources (2000)
• Reclaim the Fire: A Parish Guide to Evangelization.
  By Martin W. Pable, OFM Cap. Ave Maria Press (2002)
• The Evangelizing Catholic, A Practical Handbook for Reaching Out. By Frank DeSiano, CSP. New York: Paulist Press, 1998. $11.95

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