by Mark Hornbacher | Dec 11, 2015 | Stories from the Street
Pensacola, FL. On the one hand, when street evangelizing, it is important to be bold. If you don’t speak the truth clearly, how can others ever come to know the truth and believe? On the other hand, while speaking clearly it is also important to not make your presence...
by Mark Hornbacher | Dec 5, 2015 | Stories from the Street, Techniques
Bloomington, IN. Prayer is of the utmost importance in the Christian life. For the street evangelist, outings should begin and end with prayer, and, since St. Paul exhorts us to “pray always,” they should even be filled with it. But prayer should also be part of the...
by Mark Hornbacher | Dec 4, 2015 | Stories from the Street
Santa Clarita, CA. Sometimes, to get someone back on the right path, you just need to be in the right place, at the right time. The Santa Clarita, California SPSE team set up outside a large department store (with permission, of course!), and spoke to many people over...
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...
