Prayer and Discipleship

Take a look at the story below. As Catholics we all to often forget the power of prayer. I know, we pray all of the time, but how often to we offer to pray with someone else? People rarely turn down an offer of prayer. And the more you offer to pray with people the...

Street Ministry in the Red Light District

We love seeing other groups and ministries engaging in street evangelization. Here is a report from Franciscan University of Steubenville. We have featured red light district ministry here before. We have amazing students. This past Friday night, the men's household...

Evangelizing Jehovah Witnesses

The Boise team showed up downtown at the same time that a Jehovah’s Witnesses (JWs) convention was being held. This turned out to be an interesting encounter with some JWs who came up to ‘preach’ to the Catholic team. The JW insisted that believers are to address God...

Intellectual acceptance?

Some evangelical protestants like to pass out creative looking tracts to catch people’s attention and plant seeds about their understanding of the Gospel. While their efforts are commendable, they almost always contain teachings that do not capture the whole truth...

Pope Francis: Go and share the Gospel

In the Holy Father's general audience yesterday he reminded all Christians that we have a duty to spread the Gospel everywhere in the world. For most of us that means through the circumstances of our every day life, where God has placed us in our homes, ministries,...

He Broke Down Sobbing

While it is true that most of the time our street evangelists will not see the fruit of their labors, God occasionally does allow them to see such fruit. For example, sometimes someone will approach us with a broken spirit for which they need prayers of healing. In...

Evangelization vs Proselytizing

“I will no longer support street evangelization because Pope Francis said not to proselytize!” Sadly, we have had members of St. Paul Street Evangelization contact us and tell that they are going to stop supporting our ministry and stop evangelizing in the...