Strategic Planning Kickoff Retreat Jan 27, 2024
We are inviting our key parish leaders to attend a kick off event for the strategic planning process. This kickoff event will be part retreat and part workshop. Together, we will break open and more deeply understand Father Jerry’s goals and discern how each ministry and program within our parish is being called to align to our mission and help achieve those goals. Kristin Bird from Burning Hearts Discipels will facilitate this opportunity for us to dream together about our dreams for MBS Parish and how those dreams intersect with who God is calling us to be.
If you would like to talk to someone about planning for evangelization & discipleship, hosting a parish mission or school retreat, or forming a team of missionary disciples, please don't hesitate to contact us.
Charting Our Path Forward & Crafting Our Why
Downloads
Additional Reading/Watching/Listening
Evangelii Nuntiandi: On Evangelization in the Modern World (Pope Paul VI) 
Forming Intentional Disciples: The Path to Knowing & Following Jesus (Sherry Weddell) 
Start With Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
(Simon Sinek) 
Made for Mission: Renewing Your Parish Culture (Tim Glemkowski) 
Divine Renovation: Bringing Your Parish From Maintenance to Mission
(Fr. James Mallon)
Start with Why Ted Talk (Simon Sinek) 
Podcast Episode 2: What Does Parish Renewal Look Like
A Discussion on Parish Renewal & Evangelisation (Divine Renovation Webinar)
Quotes
Evangelizing is in fact the grace and vocation proper to the Church, her deepest identity. She exists in order to evangelize.
Pope Paul VI, Evangellii Nuntiandi
Session II: How To Make Disciples
Downloads
Additional Reading/Watching/Listening
Living as Missionary Disciples: Resource for Evangelization (USCCB) 
The Ultimate Relationship (CCO) 
Start with Jesus (Julianne Stanz)
An Examination of Conscience for Evangelizers (Burning Hearts Disciples)
Accompaniment in Action posts on Burning Hearts Disciples
Podcast Episode 6: Exploring the Pre-Discipleship Journey
Helping Others Drop Their Nets & Follow Jesus (Sherry Weddell)
Quotes
“It is necessary to awaken again in believers a full relationship with Christ, mankind’s only Savior. Only from a personal relationship with Jesus can an effective evangelization develop.”
St. John Paul II, Dec 4, 1992
If you would like to continue the conversation about making disciples in your parish or school - or talk to someone about how to discover, unpack, and share your story of faith, please don't hesitate to contact us.