Evangelization Workout Series: Engage Inactive Catholics

The authors, John and Therese Boucher, have designed this collection of exercises to help us stretch our capacity for meaningful encounters with inactive Catholics.  It is a pastoral tool suitable for ministry and/or faith-sharing groups.  This publication of the workbook includes popularly downloaded exercises from John and Therese Boucher, many of them known to readers of Evangelization Exchange.

Other workbooks in the series (Coming soon) include:

Ready to use group exercises include:

• When You Notice The Empty Pews: What Can You Do?
• Why Catholics Become Inactive
• Who Is God for You?
• Praying with Someone in Time of Need
• Why Do Some Inactive Catholics Return?
• Closing/Merging Parishes and Inactive Catholics
• Focusing Catholic Evangelization Efforts

 

John Boucher serves as the Director of Evangelization and Parish Development for the Diocese of Trenton. With the Paulist Evangelization Training Institute (PETI) online, John, with his wife Therese, teaches the six-week course Keys to Reaching Inactive Catholics.

Therese Boucher is a noted leader in catechetics, evangelization, and family ministry.  She is the author of  Evangelizing Unchurched Children (Item 0346), and in PETI also teaches a four-wekk course entitled Spiritual Grandparenting.

Both John and Therese are regular contributors to Evangelization Exchange.