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EC Impact: Kristen
“These one-on-ones helped me to recognize Jesus’ love for me for the first time and taught me that someone cared enough to share this with me and teach me.” Celebrations of…
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EC Impact: Colleen
“God is truly reaching more in this work.” Colleen serves the Church and the U.S.A. as a military spouse, most recently at Camp Pendleton Marine Base. In sharing her…
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How Small Groups Build a Movement
Relational Ministry Small groups work because they are rooted in relationships, not in organizational structures or edifices. Within the relationships people want and need, they find what they didn’t know…
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Evangelizing through Prayer, Fasting, and Almsgiving
Here are our top 5 evangelical Lenten resolutions for 2017, directly from EC Staff: Resolution One: PRAYER Take the 1% Challenge: 15 minutes daily in God’s Word I love early…
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Lenten Reflection 2016
So, I’m going to reflect on just that: my own poverty. And what a perfect time Lent is to experience and reflect on our own spiritual poverty. As I prayed…
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I Dreamt that My Son Died – A Good Friday Meditation
It seems eminently clear that the more perfect one’s love is, the more pain lies in wait. The longer couples date, the more the break-up hurts. The closer the relative,…
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Seek the Lord in the Bible Every Day… Seriously!
Mark Rose wrote in our last EC blog entry about how we hunger for connection to people and to God. I know that I hunger for a lot of things,…
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“Do not be afraid, for I am with you”
What definitely scared me the most was the uncarpeted stairs- the bogeyman was going to grab my legs from between the steps and pull me into an abyss. I always…
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Catholic Small Groups Are Critical – But They’re Not the Answer
Small Groups Are Not the Answer Don’t get me wrong: small groups have their place. I personally know many students who have experienced radical conversion of heart, mind and soul…
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5 Things Parishes are Doing Wrong for the New Evangelization
1) They spend 8 months crafting a new mission statement. So your parish wants more unity – a vision to run with. Your staff sees a disunified, scattered community. Most…
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