Tools For Re-Evangelization
Posted by Rebecca Teti in News on Monday, November 17, 2008 2:00 PM
One positive and nearly universal response I’ve seen to the election results is a Catholic commitment to get serious about re-evangelization and pro-life education.
Here are some exciting new projects I’ve stumbled across recently that might interest you for their nimble, “hip” (for lack of a better term) and non-threatening approach.
1. Catholics Come Home. Perhaps like me you saw some of the powerful videos at Catholics Come Home when the site first launched.
Even more impressive are the results. It brought 3000 non-practicing Catholics in Phoenix, AZ back to the faith during a three-week campaign. This story from back in April is worth reading for further details of the campaign and its big plans for the future.
Over the weekend I chatted by email with Susan Gerdvil, Director of Communications for Catholics Come Home. She informs me that they are still raising money for a national campaign (eventually they hope to be an international apostolate), but in the meanwhile, they are in active planning with 15 dioceses for local campaigns—similar to the successful kick-off in Phoenix—in the coming year. She’s a good Communications Director, so you won’t be surprised she didn’t miss the opportunity to ask for donations. All advertising runs on donations large and small. At the very least bookmark their site—and share it with your unchurched friends. Who knows what might happen?
2. Abort73.com. If there’s anything November 4, 2008 tells us, it’s that there’s still a load of pro-life education to be done. For that purpose, I can’t imagine a better tool than this wonderful website. Click on the home page and you’re met immediately with a smart introductory video and a sidebar listing every possible angle of discussion—biological, political, philosophical—with links to more information to meet any objection. The site is also a clearinghouse of links for help in crisis pregnancy, and you can also get widgets and banners to place on your own website. Or connect with them through myspace and other social networking pages. Great for us to know about—and be sure to tell your teens.
3. Abortion Changes You. Non-partisan, non-political and non-threatening, here’s a site that allows people who have been wounded by abortion—but never permitted to talk about it—to begin to heal. This might be as important a dimension of abortion education as there is: simply allowing us to speak about it honestly.
I highly recommend you visit all three of these sites to see for yourselves what they have to offer.
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