The Evangelization Plan of St. Joseph Catholic Church

2019-20

Disciples will be transformed by Christ to love and serve.

Fed by Word and sacrament, to love and to serve.

Values of the Goals

Encounter Jesus-
We seek Jesus in Mass, the Church, the sacraments, through personal prayer and service

Discipleship –
We sit at the foot of Jesus to learn from Him and act according to the Truth he taught

Communication-
Respectfully and actively engage others in the Gospel with integrity and love

• To support the work of evangelization through a new parish database

  • Purchase a new parish database program which offers the best way to access information, create databases and promote staff collaboration.

  • Determine active and inactive parishioners.

  • Reach out to the shut-ins and inactive parishioners.

• Bring the whole family closer to Jesus in the Eucharistic community

  • Offer family special events.

  • Encourage Mass attendance each week.

  • Encourage a personal relationship with Jesus through sacramental preparation.

  • Provide Adoration experiences for all students.

  • Communicate with the Eucharistic Community Being Fostered and Built

    • Deliver information about how to extend faith into everyday family life.

    • Bulletin inserts three times a year about the school (SJS).

    • Communicate the mission statement of the school on Facebook posts with #LeadLearnServe and encourage people to live it (SJS).

    • Use our #GoAnd to promote being a living example of the Good News in the spaces we occupy each day (SJRE).

    • Send High School Youth Group #GroupMe messages and Instagrams on a weekly basis to inform, invite and encourage attendance (SJRE).

Adult Faith Formation

• Lead people to the liturgical life of the parish
  • Offer evangelization training for parishioners, teaching them how to share their faith, bring others to faith in the Church’s teachings, and full participation in the liturgical life of the Church.
  • Assist adults to connect with the goals of the evangelization plan
    • Integrate evangelization training in all adult programs.
    • Create groups to develop faith-sharing techniques to promote greater and more active sharing of the faith.

• Offer authentic hospitality at all liturgical celebrations to connect with people’s lives
  • Empower and encourage all liturgical ministers to greet worshippers.
  • Connecting the liturgical life of the parish with people's lives
    • Touch the minds and hearts of all parishioners through an effective catechesis about the Mass.
    • Identify and share how minds and hearts have been affected by the Mass.
    • Establish a way of podcasting and/or posting the weekly homily on the parish website.

March 6, 2019