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The Evangelization Team
While evangelization is everyone's responsibility, someone needs to plan, coordinate, oversee and evaluate efforts. The committee is a catalyst in the parish helping all to see evangelization as its normal business.
The desired way is for it to be a part of the Parish Council - to encourage all ministries, groups and organizations to embrace a ministry of worship, service, discipleship and hospitality.
Qualities of Team Members include:
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BLP—Basic Lay Person
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Persons of faith and prayer
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Community builders
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Searchers/questioners
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Humor
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Witnesses to the Gospel
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Justice-oriented
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Flexible organizers
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Creative
Some questions that a Parish Council should ask in future planning are:
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What is our preferred future for the parish?
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What attitudes, behaviors and activities would reflect a more Christ-centered and mission focused parish?
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What specific steps would accomplish these results?
Following is a partial list of publications on the topic of forming evangelization teams available from the Office of Evangelization.
A Time to
Listen…A Time to Heal.
Committee on Evangelization, National Conference of Catholic
Bishops, Washington, 1999. $4.95
Building on Go and Make Disciples, the bishops’ pastoral plan for evangelization, this new directory was developed to further Pope John Paul II’s call for reconciliation. The directory includes reflections, models, and faith sharing guides for evangelization staffs and all those involved in mission work.
Evangelization
Teams in the Making: A Catholic Parish Manual.
Dorothy Hulburt and Sr. Priscilla Lemire, RJM, Jeremiah Press,
Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 2000. $9.95
Evangelization Teams in the Making by veteran Catholic evangelizers, Dorothy Hulburt and Sr. Priscilla Lemire, offers parish leadership down to earth, nitty-gritty pre-planning assistance in the formation of dynamic, effective parish evangelization teams. This book also helps readers to identify their own unique evangelization style and discusses six different types of evangelization styles, all representative of evangelization teams today.
Evangelization
Parish Workbook.
Archdiocese of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 1995.
$
A discussion and planning guide for:
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Parish Staff
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Leadership Groups
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Parish Pastoral Council
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Small Faith Communities
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Evangelization Group/Committee
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Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults Program
Thy Kingdom
Come: A Manual for Evangelization Staff.
Committee on Evangelization, National Conference of Catholic
Bishops, Washington, DC, 1999. $3.95
Revised edition is designed for the use and training of those involved in the work of evangelization. Contains a preface, general information on the Catholic approach to evangelization, and specific sections on evangelization at the diocesan and parish levels. A resource section includes foundational documents, materials from Pope John Paul II and the U.S. bishops, and related organizations. Preface by Most Rev. Michael J. Sheehan, chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Evangelization.
Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations...
Mt. 28:19