I came across this short video from Roger Carswell who seems to have endless ideas for sharing the Gospel and the lockdown certainly hasn’t stopped him! Worth watching simply just to share his enthusiasm for sharing the Gospel. His main theme is that we can still write and phone during this time and thank people […]
Category: Ideas
Pause for Faith – Fr Stephen Wang
There are many priests who vlog (post video blogs) online and I’ve just chose Fr Stephan Wang in the Diocese of Westminster as an example among many. His newly created YouTube channel, only set up since the 21st March, has daily videos that discuss a range of topics in faith. Most of the videos around […]
Gaming and Faith
OK, so there are lots of tried and tested methods in evangelisation, including small groups, street evangelisation, leaflets, websites and more. But what are our young people spending a lot of their time doing? Social Media? Got that covered. Gaming? How do we use that as an opportunity to evangelise? Father Beau has recently started […]
Use all your skills
When you are considering your outreach, and specifically the tools and approach you want to take, it’s really good to consider all the skills you have as a team. For example, you’d be forgiven for thinking that art had no place in online church activities, but a former Director of Sotherby’s has created www.christianart.today which […]
Prayer Support during Lockdown
The Diocese of Portsmouth are offering prayer support, a prayer request line for key workers and spiritual listening for anyone who needs it. For those who want prayer support or spiritual listening, they just complete a short form to say when they are available for a call, and Key Workers are directing to an even […]
Family Resources
Living out the ‘Domestic Church’ The reality of the corona virus for many families is that there is an increased focus on the parents to provide faith formation and opportunities to experience faith at home, since we don’t have the usual routines, such as going to weekly Mass or daily prayer in school. The Diocese […]
How to Live Stream Mass
There are not many resources out there that focus on how to live stream Mass, and I thought it might be useful to share some of the resources I have found on this topic. Fr Ian VanHeusen and Timothy Robbins discuss the technology that they are using while they live stream Mass in North Carolina […]
Opportunities in Lockdown
Daniel Wang, in his recent post “Engaging Seekers and Reaching the Unchurched“, talks about the opportunities that have arisen during this lockdown and encourages others to do the same. As Fr James shared during this week’s webinar, some parishes are rising to the current crisis and have done extraordinary things, shifting their ministries and approaches […]
The Search
An Alternative to Alpha A new resource has recently been launched, called “The Search“. This 7-part video series has a similar format to Alpha but is created in a Catholic context. It has been produced by the Augustine Institute, which already provides a wide range of resources and tools for people who are looking to […]
Sound of Your Love – Connecting Family
Michelle Brock is the co-creator of a project called Sound of Your Love; a service that brings families together when they can’t be face-to-face in this pandemic. Today, even if your loved ones aren’t suffering from coronavirus, it’s next to impossible to see them in hospitals; restrictions due to health risks are high, so she […]