Archived Stories
First Day at “Catholic Corner”
Members of the newly formed Chicago SPSE team felt nervous as they set out to evangelize for their first time on that cold and rainy Saturday morning. Father Joshua, pictured, joined the effort. But the evangelists were pleasantly surprised that people were actually...
Kindly Drawing Them Home
A friendly conversation about their relationship to Catholicism can make a difference. Three SPSE evangelists from Smyrna, GA, set up recently outside the Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park. Two women who found them were an inactive Catholic (“Lady C”) and a...
Strengthening the Weak
SPSE evangelists come from all walks of life and from every occupation. For some, their desire to answer the call to evangelize is not limited to formal outings with an SPSE team on the street. For example, we recently received a report from one of our evangelists who...
Louie X 2
Sometimes SPSE teams have non-stop visitors and so evangelists trust the Lord that their short, 2-minute encounters change hearts. But, sometimes, the Lord sends so few visitors that an entire team can take part in an extended conversation. That happened recently in...
Love is patient…
The weekly presence of the SPSE Lincoln, NE, team at the city’s Haymarket gives people an opportunity to continue Faith discussions from previous visits. “Ron” was one such return visitor. He had spoken with evangelist Bob Sullivan the previous week. This time, Ron...
“If you died… Would you go to heaven?”
SPSE’s National Director, Steve Dawson, joined evangelist Julian for Catholic street evangelization in downtown Detroit last weekend. Despite the cold, on several occasions during the outing, the evangelists felt the Holy Spirit was using them to bear fruit for the...
Help from the Holy Spirit
Getting started can be the toughest part of street evangelization. Recently, seminarians joined SPSE’s Wayne State University team in bringing the Good News about Jesus Christ to typical university students. One seminarian was quite uncomfortable at first. The team...
“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...
