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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! |
| Manchester NH click here! Portland ME click here! |
| Great Britain click here! San Francisco & the Bay Area click here! |
| Notre Dame Vision CYM 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. 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. Click on the cover. |
| StrengthsFinder Are you using Gallop's Strengths Finder as a parish? Here is a process for group use in the parish which will make your experience richer. Developed by Leisa Anslinger. Click on the cover to go there. |
| The most important new book on the RCIA in 25 years! The Way of Faith: A Field Guide for the RCIA Process by Nick Wagner! In this new book, the first of its kind in more than 25 years, Nick provides a complete guide to every aspect of the RCIA process. This great new resource should be in the hands of every parish catechetical leader from youth ministry to the Catholic School! Read this book together as a parish team to refresh and renew and re-energize the RCIA in your parish! It's perfect for parish team members. We're offering a 20% discount in packs of 10. Buy a bundle & save! Available to ship about August 1. Click on the cover to find the book. |
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| Resources for your parish! Are you searching for a way to share the vision of lifelong faith formation with your leaders and entire parish? We have prepared a group of FREE articles just for this purpose - which you can download, reproduce widely, and use! To get to them, click on the candle to the right, and scroll down the page to the material you want. |
| The Engine of Lifelong Faith Formation - FREE Resource! We now know that nearly every parish which is succeeding at long term change in the direction of lifelong faith formation does so because a Core Group of leaders in that parish "gets" the vision and provides the foundation for this change. This group functions almost like a Religious Community within the parish - providing prayer, study, & support. They become an engine, generating the lifelong formation process for the parish. Now we have collected the notes of several parishes and shaped a method for establishing and supporting such a Core Religious Community in your parish - and because this resource came from people like you, it's FREE here at PastoralPlanning.com. Click here to find it. |
| Is your parish financially strapped? We can help! If you are unable to afford the resources offered on this web site, please click here to tell us and we'll find a way to reduce the price or donate them to you. People make contributions to support this ministry and those contributions are used to support parishes which are struggling financially. To make a donation yourself, click here. Thanks to all! |
| A resource for every parish in the Church! Welcome the People: Ways to Gather & Nourish Adult Catholics Here is THE resource we've all been waiting for. Author and pastoral leader Jim Smith offers us a parish staff & volunteer leader workshop in one inexpensive book. Using this resource will help you as a group prepare for and implement tremendously effective lifelong faith form- ation. Each chapter has an excellent and practical exercise to help you become a "lifelong formation parish!" Because this is such a fabulous "group reading book" we are offering you a 20% discount in bundles. Click here. Click on the cover to find the book. |
