Archived Stories
“Invite Jesus to do the work for you”
A seminarian performed a silent experiment when he and fellow seminarians joined SPSE evangelists in Detroit, MI, as part of a recent Nightfever event. During Nightfever, a downtown church keeps its doors open all night long. Inside, priests were available to offer...
Hungry for Jesus
At 7:30 a.m. on Friday morning, many children are already playing in the streets of Barrio Bambang in Los Banos, The Phillipines. And so our SPSE team was there to meet them and begin to introduce them to Faith in Jesus Christ. The children in the picture, 6- to...
“We’re all very excited to be out!”
Being a team member can give you the courage to take the Catholic Faith “to the streets”, as SPSE’s new team in Cohoes, NY, has discovered. Each SPSE evangelist on a team might bring different strengths and abilities to the mission, but God can use whatever we...
Jesus Christ, the “Game-Changer”
SPSE teams go where people gather — for instance, the Saturday farmer’s market in Lincoln, NE. Visibly Catholic, with sign and offer of free Rosary, Lincoln’s SPSE evangelists easily engage many in friendly conversations about the Faith. Here are some recent...
UK Team Grateful for “Invisible Support”
Prayer is essential for evangelization. SPSE teams world-wide are often reminded that only the Holy Spirit changes hearts and we accomplish nothing without Him (cf. Jn 15:5). One team with a committed, simultaneous prayer group backing its on-the-street evangelization...
Where is Truth?
We can touch on only a few stories from a recent Phoenix, AZ, session. For that outing, the Phoenix–NW team welcomed several first-time evangelists, as well as SPSE Tempe’s team leader, Sean Kelly. “Wes” was “searching for truth”. He was planning to attend Mass for...
Re-Building Trust
SPSE evangelists face the constant challenge of building people’s trust — in God, in Christians, in the Catholic Church. One way we do that is by simply showing up regularly at a particular place and being consistently friendly. Our San Francisco team has been...
To Christ to Worship
One of our newest San Diego teams set up in Balboa Park, a park/museum area next to the San Diego Zoo and with buildings dating back to 1915. They had many visitors. An atheist group had also set up that day, and one of them came over to make provocative remarks. The...
Back to the Catholic Church
SPSE’s National Director, Steve Dawson, joined the San Diego team as they evangelized on the Ocean Beach Municipal Pier. According to Steve, in the short time the team was out, they “talked with dozens — if not hundreds — of people and had lots of fun” doing so. An...
Where is Certainty?
SPSE’s Atlanta chapter welcomed their newest team — Smyrna, GA. For their first outing, team leader Clarence Burkholder set up in front of Smyrna’s City Hall, near its Spring Jonquil Festival — the semi-annual family event that attracts crowds of up to 15,000. Showing...