The parish pastor discovered it. The director of evangelization and catechesis for the archdiocese encourages it. And, most important, the parents and children like it. We’ve mentioned Sacred Heart Parish in Norfolk, Nebraska a couple times in the past months and are pleased to see the end-of-their-first-year-assessment published in their diocesan paper. Heidi Snitchler said she enjoys [...]
Archive for the ‘DRE & Faith Formation Coordinators’ category
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May 20, 2012An introduction to our introduction
May 15, 2012Close to the top of our list of favorite things is talking to others about the blessings of Family Formation! (I know, I know – no surprises there.) One of the missions of our Core Team is to be “enthusiastic ambassadors” for Family Formation in a one-on-one way, our office staff gladly spends hours [...]
We can now add “award winning” to our name!
May 14, 2012Congratulations to Family Formation for being named the 2012 winner of the New Wineskins Award offered by the National Conference for Catechetical Leadership! This award is designed to: highlight and celebrate extraordinary achievement occurring in parishes (or parish clusters) in the ministries of evangelization and catechesis. share successful initiatives that may benefit other parishes. encourage [...]
Having a Core Team: covering your program in prayer
May 3, 2012A Core Team member writes about the primacy of prayer: My husband and I started out teaching Family Formation when we were first married and before children, so we could check out this program everyone was talking about. Now ten tears later, three of our four children are involved and I am a member of [...]
Developing a Core Team: A little Family Formation history lesson
May 2, 2012A few words from one of our founders: Where two or three are gathered in my Name, there I will be with them. Matthew 18:20 When Religious Education was moving from teacher based to family based format and Family Formation was in its birthing stage at the Church of Saint Paul, the only way I [...]
Having a Core Team: building up your parish
April 27, 2012More testimonies from former Core Team members: Do you need a core team? No, God can and does work in many ways. Is it good to have a core team? YES, yes, yes! God can and will work powerfully in and through your core team. The personal growth, closer to our loving Lord, is so [...]
Having a Core Team: coordination of efforts
April 25, 2012One main benefits I’ve found to belonging to the Core Team is the incredible cross-collaboration that is made possible. It is amazing how many times you realize that you don’t have to reinvent the wheel because this or that other ministry already created the prop, booklet, project or whatever it is that you need for [...]
Having a Core Team: an unexpected benefit
April 23, 2012A brief testimony from one of our Core Team members: I don’t know if I can adequately express what being part of the core team has meant to me. I thought the people there were only those who really knew their Catholic Faith and I knew I was not one of those people. I said [...]
Thanks to our visitors!
April 14, 2012What a wonderful time we had today with representatives from other parishes who came to observe during our annual April Workshop! We’ve found that the best way to explain Family Formation is to see it first-hand, so for the past nine years we’ve hosted this come-and-see style workshop. Participants started the day by hearing from [...]
DREs – Should You Have A Core Team?
March 29, 2012This is Deb’s answer to our recent mailbag question: Your question is very timely! A few weeks ago we had two experiences that solidified our belief that having a Core Team is a crucial component to the successful implementation and ongoing success of Family Formation (specifically, of course, the prayer piece!). We had the luxury of visiting [...]
Matt Brounstein
Sue Klejeski
Molly Koop
