Encouraging others to know God’s love for them by inviting them to church, to pray and to encounter Christ – inviting them to parish groups where they can learn about Our Lord - helping to form missionary disciples and missionary parishes.

Evangelisation sub group

Membership

Fr Michael Glover
Paul Northam, Diocesan Advisor for Evangelisation, Marriage and Family Life
Beccy Roseman, Lay Chaplain Co-ordinator

Remit

The aim of the Evangelisation sub group is to respond to the Archbishop’s Vision for the Archdiocese to make evangelisation a key priority for Catholics and parishes. To create a plan that:

• Explores the missionary and evangelising potential of parishes and chaplaincies with the clergy
• Engages with the lay faithful that the Church does not have a mission but is a mission. Each baptised person is called to play an active role in evangelisation as missionary disciples
• Encourages all the baptised to engage with local plans for evangelisation in parishes and deaneries so that:
• the baptised grow to become missionary disciples, witnessing in their local community;
• missionary disciples may form missionary structures that reach out and serve

• Establish a team for evangelisation that acts as a ‘resource hub’ in partnership with other diocesan agencies in accompanying the Archdiocese in the ongoing work for evangelisation and mission.

Current work

We are currently working on ’Something Greater’ - a tool parishes can use to extend a hand of friendship to their local community to invite them to come to church. As our parishes and communities continue to open, Something Greater can help in reaching out to:

Those who have lost the habit of coming to church and who may be anxious about doing so