| Resources offered on this site |
| 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 state and sustain faith sharing throughout the parish using the Question of the Week With free prayer sheets. Prayer Services 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. 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. |
Free and unlimited consultation with Leisa is available to any parish in the world via telephone or e-mail. To schedule a phone call, simply send an e-mail to Leisa suggesting several good times. If you want to work with her as a staff, request a time which works for a conference call. There is no charge for this service. All you pay for is the call. It is also possible for Leisa to work with your diocesan or parish group in person, but there is a fee for this service. To open a conversation about this, click here to send her a note. |
| Meet Leisa Anslinger Leisa Anslinger is the Pastoral Associate for Evangelization, Catechesis and Stewardship at Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish in Cincinnati, OH. This parish is a leading example of lifelong faith formation in practice. Her parish work has helped form Leisa as an effective advisor to others in pastoral ministry. Leisa speaks nationally on several key topics. She is a known expert on lifelong catechesis and stewardship. These two dimensions of parish life intertwine in Leisa's work, one informing the other. "For lasting results in stewardship," Leisa says, "a strong process for adult conversion and formation must be in place. Otherwise, you get a fund raising flash-in-the-pan!" She also provides effective workshops on pastoral planning for lifelong faith formation. And, related to that, also provides parish-changing workshops on parishioner engagement. Leisa holds a Bachelor's degree in Music Education from St. Mary-of-the-Woods College, a Masters in Secondary School Counseling from Purdue University and a Master of Arts in Religion from the Athenaeum of Ohio. Leisa is the author of Here Comes Everybody! Whole Community Catechesis in the Parish. This book has helped thousands shape their own lifelong faith formation programs. She is also co-author with Bill Huebsch of Desires of the Heart, a powerful prayer book to accompany The Growing Faith Project or simply to stand alone as a personal source of prayer inspiration. Her most recent work is Forming Generous Hearts: Stewardship Planning for Lifelong Faith Formation, co-authored with Vikki Shepp. |
| Click here to download in PDF a FREE article by Leisa Anslinger: Stewardship: In Plain English |
| Dreams & Visions Workshops & Training Leisa Anslinger and Bill Huebsch work as colleagues, providing training for parish leaders, including pastors, liturgical and catechetical leaders, on the ways and means of doing pastoral planning which results in sound programs of lifelong faith formation for your parish. To contact them, click here to send an e-mail requesting more information. To see what a typical workshop requires and how it flows, click here. |
| FREE Article! Click here to download a new article by Leisa Anslinger in which she shares how their well-designed parish newsletter provides powerful and effective lifelong formation. Every tool we use counts! HeartBeat! |
Meet Leisa Anslinger! Parish Leader Pastoral Planning Advisor Specialist in Parish Stewardship |
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