by Mark Hornbacher | Dec 3, 2015 | Stories from the Street
South Windsor, CT. For the first hour, people just looked at the new South Windsor, Connecticut SPSE team. Then the first man approached, “Moses” (pictured here with evangelist Martha Mingle). Moses is a non-Catholic Christian who had been taught that Catholics...
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 30, 2015 | Stories from the Street
Bloomington, IN. “Jesus said to [the Apostles], ‘Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I send you.’ And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and said to them, ‘Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven; if you...
by Mark Hornbacher | Nov 29, 2015 | Stories from the Street
Pensacola, FL. The mission of the priest is to be a witness of the Gospel, a minister of reconciliation, in the person of Christ the Head of the Church. Though priests do this in their parishes and other venues all the time, it is great to have them out on the streets...
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...
