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Get started by clicking below on the item which best describes your role in the diocese or parish.
Resources offered
on this site
For a special FREE gift, see below.
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!
I'm pastor of a mid-sized
or large parish.
We need the resources
for parish renewal.
I'm a parish staff person.
We need help to get started
with lifelong faith
formation.
I'm the bishop.
I want to make sure
that this is all OK
for my diocese.
I'm pastor in a cluster of
smaller parishes
We have many challenges
to overcome if we're
doing to do this.
Habla español
y no se empezar catequesis
para toda la comunidad en
mi parroquia.
I bought a copy of
Dreams and Visions.
I'm looking for all the web
links it mentions.
I'm on my Parish
Council.
I want to help my parish
do pastoral planning.
I work with junior or
senior high folks
we need gathering outlines
that really work!
I plan the adult
curriculum.
I need some help to make
sure we are always faithful
to the Church.
I'm leading a Protestant
Church.
We've got the same needs
you do. Will this work for
us, too?
I'm a parish Deacon.
We need to have an
approach which works in
our culture here.
I work on the Diocesan
Staff.
We want to support our
parishes in lifelong faith
Formation.

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

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.