Department for Evangelization
Staff
"To Evangelize means to bring others to God."
(Bishop David A. Zubik, The Church Alive!, no 83)
The Department for Evangelization supports the apostolic ministry of the Diocesan Bishop by focusing its efforts to three groups of people to whom evangelization efforts ought to first be addressed: (a) those who have left the Church; (b) those who have no or little religious upbringing called the unchurched; and (c) the churched, those who practice their faith and need to be sustained (Cf., The Church Alive!, no 85).
The Department does so by employing a strategy focused on the clergy, lay ministers and faithful that moves them through a process from encounter, by creating opportunities that precipitate an experience of Jesus Christ; through discipleship, with programs of formation to strengthen the faith of believers and bring about a deeper appreciation of discipleship as a way of life; to mission, sent as disciples to invite all to (re)consider the Catholic Faith.
Please explore our Department's pages, found in the column to the right, regarding Evangelization Best Practices, Evangelization Resouces, About the Catholic Church, Thinking About Becoming Catholic and/or Returning to the Church, and Have you left the Church. Please contact us with any questions.
Recent News
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For information regarding EWTN Presents Father Robert Barron’s Epic Series ‘Catholicism’ (click here) - Posted November 10, 2011