Getting involved with the Evangelization Committee

What benefits have volunteers realized through this ministry?  
It is humbling to see people’s response to God’s invitation to return to the church.  People wrestle with questions of faith and then with trust share their struggles and joys.

What benefits have parishioners realized? 
A deeper understanding of our faith, active outreach to others, a growth in compassion, empathy, understanding.  More active participation in the  healing and reconciling mission of Christ and the church.  Strengthening our sense of church.

What benefits has the parish realized through our ministry? 
People have come back to active participation in our church.

What needs does our particular ministry have at this time?

HOSPITALITY
Time commitment: 1-3 hours/week
Training Needed: Minimal
Hospitality volunteers plan refreshments and provide set-up and/or clean-up for Evangelization events as they are scheduled. 

PUBLICITY
Time commitment: Varies (approximately 3 hours)
Training Needed: Minimal
Publicity volunteers are responsible for assisting in designing publications and flyers to promote Evangelization Committee events. The volunteers arrange for printing of flyers; placing notices in the church bulletin, the Recording Angel, the Vicariate newsletter and the local newspaper.

CHILD CARE
Time commitment:   2 hours/week
Training Needed:    Completion of Protecting God’s Children
Volunteers provide child care for children of attendees at Evangelization events.

Serving others

"The Holy Spirit gives us joy. And he is joy. Joy is the gift in which all the other gifts are included. It is the expression of happiness, of being in harmony with ourselves, that which can only come from being in harmony with God and with his creation. It belongs to the nature of joy to be radiant; it must communicate itself. The missionary spirit of the Church is none other than the impulse to communicate the joy which has been given."

-Pope Benedict XVI
Christmas Address to the Roman Curia, 2008