by Mark Hornbacher | Dec 2, 2015 | Principles, Stories from the Street
Bloomington, IN. Scott, director of religious education for St. John the Apostle Catholic Church in Bloomington, joined the Indiana University SPSE team for evangelization on the university campus. One of his first street evangelization outings, he’s putting in to...
by Mark Hornbacher | Dec 1, 2015 | Principles, Stories from the Street
Baltimore, MD. Evangelization is most appropriately carried out within what we might call “authentic human encounters.” What is an “authentic human encounter”? At the least, it is a human encounter where the freedom and dignity of the other is respected. Why is this...
by Mark Hornbacher | Nov 28, 2015 | Stories from the Street, Techniques
San Francisco, CA. Saint Paul Street Evangelization does not require that its evangelists use its materials (medals, holy cards, pamphlets, etc.). We simply provide these materials as low-priced as we can. A few of our teams get some resources from other sources, and...
by Mark Hornbacher | Nov 27, 2015 | Practical Evangelization, Stories from the Street, Techniques
Milwaukee, WI. Once they’ve started to evangelize on the streets, many of our evangelists branch out and do the same in their everyday life. They engage in what might be called grocery store, gas station, or restaurant evangelization. Case in point – Dave, of the...
by Mark Hornbacher | Sep 8, 2015 | Stories from the Street, Techniques
Detroit, MI. It was a beautiful day at Eastern Market in downtown Detroit where street evangelists encountered hundreds of people. They used a few approaches that worked well the previous week at the Woodward Dream Cruise. For example, they asked many people...
by Mark Hornbacher | Sep 4, 2015 | Practical Evangelization, Principles
By Joseph J. Serwach Sharing your faith publicly gives others hope. Esquire writer Tom Chiarella, investigating “the power of the uniform’’ recently decided to walk through Chicago dressed as a priest, a mechanic, a security guard and a doctor (on different days) to...
