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| Pastoral Planning A step-by-step guide: Dreams & Visions: Pastoral Planning for Lifelong Faith Formation A new book which includes a chapter outlining those all-important Planning Team Meetings. Training How to teach your parish about lifelong formation including excellent PowerPoint presentations to download and use, complete with presentation notes. Implementation How to start and sustain faith sharing throughout the parish using the Question of the Week With free prayer sheets and suggestions for training and use. A guide for using Growing Faith A powerful resource for doing adult faith formation in the parish. It's the Catechism in plain English! También es disponible en español. Prayer Services for Parish Councils and other groups to accompany faith sharing. You can download and use these in 5 minutes! Outlines for adult or intergenerational Faith Gatherings linked to your children's textbook series. Outlines for adult Bible Studies which are in plain English! Download each session and get all you need in one item. Complete plans for Parish Based Retreats in several practical scheduling formats. Your RCIA Team The Way of Faith: A Field Guide for the RCIA Process by Nick Wagner In this one volume book, you get everything you need to better understand the Catechumenate, and to start and sustain it in your parish! You also get FREE access to www.TeamRCIA.com A powerful new web site to support you! |
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Parish Vision 2009 A tool to help you do pastoral planning for lifelong formation You are invited to download this free tool designed to help you do effective pastoral planning for next year, leading to more young adult and adult faith formation in your parish. This tool includes a summary of what is needed for such planning, the actual worksheets to plan for each group of adults in the parish, and a powerful Listening Prayer process to help you know the guidance of the Holy Spirit. There is one version for clustered & smaller parishes, and one for mid-size and larger parishes, along with other helpful resources. Click on the picture |
A key idea: Why we don't need a mission statement! Click here. |
Just Living Here is an exciting new resource for adult and youth formation! It is a 14-step personal or group process leading people to live more simply, sustainably, and in solidarity with the world's poor. The resources for this process are all free to you as a parish leader, and that includes all the worksheets and handouts for each step. Click on the pic to go there. Inspired by the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development in Great Britain. Our thanks! |
| NCEA click here! LA Congress click here! |
| Great Britain click here! San Francisco & the Bay Area click here! |
| Orlando Festival of Faith click here! NCCL click here! |
| Background Material All the current books you need to better understand lifelong formation, plus free articles you can download, copy, and use. Vatican II Lots of strong resources to help you teach about the Council. We are approaching the 50th Anniversary of the date on which John XXIII called Vatican II: Jan 25, 1959. Here's a special FREE gift! Pope John XXIII's opening speech at the Council, in plain English! Click here to download a special copy to celebrate the 50th Anniversary. It also gives you a sample of Vatican II in Plain English |
Driving the Speed Limit! This e-book will change your life! Live more simply. Live more sustainably. Live in greater solidarity with the poor. by Bill Huebsch |
A New Look at Prayer Coming to Grips with your Inner Life by Bill Huebsch Long out of print, this lovely book is now available here as an e-book |
Rethinking Sacraments is back! by Bill Huebsch Once out of print, you can now buy the e-book here. |
| Leadership Development resources click here! |
| New! Learn to Speak Spanish! In today's church we must all learn to speak at least a little Spanish. Many of us have struggled through immersion study of Spanish! It can be tough sledding! But here is an amazing resource which can help you learn those all-important Spanish verbs while at the same time deepening your vocabulary! Written by Ronald Noecker and edited by Pedro Orellana, this is the single best learning tool for Spanish I've ever used! It's an e-book, so you use it at your computer or other reading device. Each verb is presented in all its tenses, with an example of how it would be used in a sentence. The whole book is hyper-linked making navigation simple. But it's those examples that make this book so good. (Hence the title: Por Ejemplo which means, literally in Spanish, "For Example...") Learn hundreds of verbs and thousands of vocabulary words by using them! This book should be in the hands of everyone working in any kind of parish ministry today! To see a FREE sample of the inside of this book, click here. To find the book, click on the cover. |
| Also available now! The Pocket Guide to Pastoral Spanish Ida Miranda This invaluable resource gives a Spanish "religion vocabulary." Topics include Mass terminology, popular religiosity, pastoral ministry, and religious education. Click on the cover to order. Very inexpensive. Available only in bundles of 5 or more. |
| Meet a new member of our team! Charlotte McCorquodale, PhD We are very proud to help you make a connection with this tremendous leader and pastoral planner. Available to lead your planning process on-site, she provides both ministry and leadership development. To reach her or learn more, click on her pic. |
| Meet the Pastoral Planning Crew! Click here. |
| See below on this page to find three exciting e-books. Download these to your own computer today! No waiting and no freight charges. |
| New Book by Nick Wagner! In this new book, the first of its kind in more than 20 years, Nick provides a complete guide to every aspect of the RCIA process. Perfect for parish team members, whether experienced or just getting started! Click on the cover for more. |
| Meet a new member of our team! Pam Coster Adult Catholics are yearning for a deeper relationship with God. How is your parish encouraging them in their journey of faith? Pam Coster is a creative leader who can help your parish plan and train for effective lifelong formation. Click on her pic for more info. |
| Meet Susan Vogt Susan is a dynamic presenter and leads a resource center focused on marriage and family - a vital part of everything we do in lifelong formation. Click on her pic to learn more about her work. |
