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Rebuilding Youth Ministry in Your Parish
Christopher WesleyIn this webinar Christopher Wesley, Former Director of Student Ministry at Church of the Nativity, will break down some of the practical steps in his new book Rebuilding Youth Ministry. He will offer five steps that any youth minister can take to build (or rebuild) an effective and engaging youth ministry in the local parish.
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Rebuilt Webinar: Introducing Positive Change into Your Parish
Fr. Michael White|Tom CorcoranMany parishes are struggling to maintain membership, regain relevance, and grow momentum. Numbers are declining and the influence the Church has on the people in the pews is declining as well. In this webinar, Father Michael White and Tom Corcoran, pastor and pastoral associate of the Church of the Nativity in Timonium, Maryland and authors of the new book, Rebuilt: Awakening the Faithful, Reaching the Lost, and Making Church Matter, share their experience of frustration with the decline of the Church's influence in their parish and what they did to change consumer Catholics into contributing ones.
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Reclaiming Francis Webinar: 10 Lessons Parish Workers Can Learn from the Saint and Pope
Msgr. Charles MurphyReclaiming Francis: 10 Lessons Parish Workers Can Learn from the Saint and PopeMsgr. Charles Murphy, who has served as pastor of four parishes, distills from the examples of the saint who was commissioned to "Rebuild my Church" and of the pope who took his name ten practical ways we can rebuild the Church in our day.These lessons include a conception of ministry that focuses on one-on-one, personal witness. The lessons also re-emphasize the freshness and beauty of the Gospel, its central teachings, and a preaching that is more sharply focused upon a call to conversion of heart.
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Recognize and Help Older Catholics Live with Faith, Hope, and Intentionality
Michael Amodei
Redeeming Conflict Webinar: Strategies for Working Through Ministerial Challenges
Ann M. GarridoDo you find yourself stuck in the same disagreements with colleagues and staff members over and over again? Are you avoiding a situation in the hope that it will just go away?Author and national speaker Ann Garrido offers a framework for analyzing the conflicts that pop up in any ministry. During the webinar she teaches the particular set of skills that will help you engage in the difficult conversations that need to be had with and among your staff and volunteers.
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Redefining Success in Youth Ministry
Michael MarchandA packed room, a busy calendar, and a sold-out retreat can all look like success—but is the goal of youth ministry really just filling the room?Join Michael Marchand of ProjectYM and author of Small-Group Discipleship: Forming Teens Through Intentional Mentorship and Consistent Community for a conversation about building a ministry that meets the real needs of today’s young people and remains focused on our ultimate goal: making disciples. Discover how a renewed approach to youth ministry can move beyond
measuring attendance and activities to foster meaningful relationships, lasting faith, and authentic discipleship.
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(Re)lighting the Digital Way: Ministering to the Cyberbullied and the Cyberbullies
Jodi HuntAccording to a Pew Research study, 85 percent of young people are connected to social media. Today’s youth and young adults, now more than ever, need ministers to help them form meaningful responses when they encounter toxic digital environments. This webinar will explore cyberbullying–its effects, and what pastoral ministers can do to help youth and young adults be the digital disciples Christ is calling them to be.
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How Pastoral Leaders Can Respond to Suicide
Most. Rev. John P. Dolan|Deacon Ed Shoener
September is National Suicide Awareness Month. Suicide is the tenth leading cause of death in the United States. By its nature, it is sudden, often violent, and frequently comes at the end of a long and difficult struggle with mental illness. Heaped on top of that is the social stigma that comes with both mental illness and suicide. As a result, families who lose a loved one to suicide are very often left in shock and intensely burdened with shame. This suffering cries out for the healing presence of Christ, his Church, and his ministers. Join Most. Rev. John Dolan, auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of San Diego, and Deacon Ed Shoener of th...
September is National Suicide Awareness Month. Suicide is the tenth leading cause of death in the United States. By its nature, it is sudden, often violent, and frequently comes at the end of a long and difficult struggle with mental illness. Heaped on top of that is the social stigma that comes with both mental illness and suicide. As a result, families who lose a loved one to suicide are very often left in shock and intensely burdened with shame. This suffering cries out for the healing presence of Christ, his Church, and his ministers. Join Most. Rev. John Dolan, auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of San Diego, and Deacon Ed Shoener of the Diocese of Scranton—founders of the Association of Catholic Mental Health Ministers—as they reflect on the spiritual insights they have gained after losing loved ones to suicide and discuss the support that pastoral leaders can provide to individuals and communities who are affected by suicide.
