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The Evangelical Catholic is a Roman Catholic nonprofit organization that equips Catholics to live out the Great Commission. Lay Catholics have a secular vocation, meaning that their unique mission is fulfilled in the world. The Church calls this mission work “apostolate.” Each individual has a unique mission that only they can fulfill, as well as a unique circle of influence they can reach that no one else can. This is their personal apostolate. The Evangelical Catholic aims to increase the number of lay apostolates in the world, which we primarily do through Reach More™, a system modeled after Jesus’ evangelization strategy. Our expert ministry consultants coach Catholic ministries to implement Reach More in their parish to multiply personal apostolates among their parishioners.
Yes! The term “evangelical” comes from the Greek word “euangelion”, meaning “the good news” or the “gospel.” In the Protestant Reformation, Martin Luther used the term to describe his breakaway movement from the Roman Catholic Church. In the late 18th Century revivals in England and America, under the preaching of protestants such as George Whitefiled and Jonathan Edwards,the term was used in ecclesial settings leading to what today we would describe as protestant or “non-denominational” evangelical churches. However, the term has a rich Catholic history prior to the Protestant Reformation, especially among the early Church Fathers. The EC sees the term as fundamental to the New Evangelization. We are “evangelical” in promoting a personal faith in Christ as savior and Lord, and in His Church as the instrument of salvation in the world. We are faithful to the Catholic Church and her magisterium and have an Episcopal Advisory Board that supports our work in prayer, through their dioceses, pastoral connection, transparency, and celebration.
Besides Reach More, the EC provides a variety of resources that are “usable, practical, and transformative” as our local ordinary Bishop Donald Hying says in this short video where he gives his endorsement of the EC. These resources include:
The mission of the Evangelical Catholic is to equip ordinary lay people with the skills to live out their vocation. Rather than sending missionaries to a parish or campus, we coach you to train your parishioners to be missionary disciples. Rather than forming only the pastor and parish staff (like Amazing Parish and Divine Renovation) for effective apostolic leadership, we work in a complementary way to make missionary disciples out of every individual in the pews. We love working alongside these groups on campuses and in parishes. We share their convictions about evangelization but have different charisms to ignite the evangelical potential of Catholics.
We work with over 200 parishes, campuses, and communities across the world! It is likely that there is one in your area. Contact us and we can let you know.
We work with any organization that wants to form and train more lay people for personal apostolates in the world or in their organization. We currently partner with a large missionary organization to help train their missionaries for personal apostolates on their missionary assignment. We also work with a large evangelization media organization to form and train their staff members with a thicker imagination for evangelization in their day to day responsibilities. We have also worked with St. Vincent de Paul conferences to equip their volunteers for deeper relational connections and evangelical opportunities on their home visits.
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There are plenty of resources and programs available for priests. What’s needed is support and accompaniment. Reach More does and offers expert experience and advice from our 25+ years of coaching hundreds of Catholic parishes and campus ministries.
Reach More combines proven online learning and customized coaching to navigate the needs and challenges of evangelization particular to your community.
Our experienced consultants personally help you to identify those who can build and shepherd a growing movement of evangelization in your community.
We coach these people to facilitate encounters with Jesus and lead lay people into mature discipleship. They receive the tools and best practices to then accompany people into their own apostolate of evangelization in the world.
The result? Spiritual multiplication and a culture of evangelization and discipleship!
After one year of Reach More, parishes can expect to have two to three mission training groups of 8-12 people launched into personal apostolate. Personal apostolates often take the form of leading small groups, but are also manifested through accompaniment, such as investing in family, or intentionally evangelizing friends and coworkers. See our YouTube playlist for examples of personal apostolate stories. Our “In The Midst of the World” quarterly newsletter highlights various types of personal apostolates to further inspire people that your ministry trains.
Beyond this, Reach More initiates a culture of evangelization in parishes and campuses. Equipped with the tools they need to live on mission, lay people are inflamed with the desire to go out into the world sharing the good news. As they begin accompanying others and leading their own small groups, they will inspire others to cultivate that same desire. A culture of discipleship and evangelization will begin to spread throughout the entire parish.
First and foremost, Reach More requires an investment of the pastor and point person’s time with parishioners, leading them through formation and the initial stages of growth of their personal apostolates. Because of this, developing a capacity to invest time in parishioners is a key element of the early months of our coaching. Even if the parish does not have staff time to devote, the EC can help you build this capacity both with staff and volunteers. Openness is further necessary to allow a new paradigm and a culture of evangelization to transform the parish.
We have a variety of service levels that run between $2,800 – $27,600 per year. We never want cost to be a factor in helping a parish launch and train their laity.
Yes. We offer three sample packages, one for Parishioners who might participate in Reach More training, one for Point People, and one for Pastors.
Pastor / Pastoral Staff: Initially, in the first month, the EC Consultant will need several meetings with staff to learn about the parish, its vision, and to help discern point people. Once your point person team is in place, the majority of time will be spent coaching them to launch Reach More in the parish.
Point People: Collectively, your point person team needs 15+ hours per week to devote to Reach More.The bulk of this time is dedicated to individual accompaniment of trainees into deep discipleship. Through this accompaniment, people grow in daily prayer, the pursuit of holiness, and the ability to someday accompany people in their lives. This is crucial to launching a movement of evangelization rather than just another program that fades away.
Training Group participants: An hour and a half each week during the training group session, 15 minutes of daily prayer, and one hour accompaniment meetings with point people, every other week, during the training group.
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