Archived Stories
Evangelization “Under Fire”
Where people are hungry for the Good News about Jesus Christ, SPSE wants to be. We recently received a report from a team INSIDE a state correctional facility (prison). Inmate evangelist “Karl” has our pamphlets addressing common questions, misunderstandings, and...
Team Boise Having Fun!
The following report came from a member of the Boise, ID, team: Woot! We had a rollicking evangelization session downtown today. Started off with a woman who kept walking up to shout “the Rosary is not in the Bible” and then leaving. She didn't want an explanation but...
Receiving Divine Life in the Holy Sacraments
SPSE’s Team Enterprise, AL, has remained active throughout the winter. The following is from a recent outing. In the photo, evangelist Pete Bartosch chooses a pamphlet for a young man from a non-Catholic Christian church. Although baptized and raised Catholic, he had...
Easy Evangelization
About every three weeks, SPSE’s San Francisco team takes the Faith to the streets. Pictured is evangelist Mary Fong giving Rosaries to a woman and child, and evangelist Stephen Bolin standing ready. Two other SPSE evangelists, Robert Seib and Ted Kirk, were also...
A “Million-Dollar” Tool for Evangelization
Catholic Answers’ Patrick Coffin joined the fun when SPSE’s San Diego team went out to do some Catholic street evangelization in Balboa Park recently. In the photo, Patrick is talking with two Iraqi Catholics about the persecution that’s going on there. The men had...
Being Instruments of Providence
SPSE’s National Director, Steve Dawson, joined the San Diego team as they evangelized this week 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...
Stumbling Blocks to Conversion
Often, behind giant lies are hidden a giant desire to justify one's sins. This man, who was nearly 7 feet tall, refused to take a Rosary because he said the Catholic Church was a greedy organization that didn’t help anyone. Our evangelist Steve told him that nothing...
Evangelization in a Strange World
As the saying around Portland goes, "Keep Portland Weird," we were not overly surprised to find out when we went out for evangelization that it was "No-Pants on the Subway Day," which means many people went around on public transit in their underwear. Though there is...
Catholicism is a Way of Life
SPSE’s Team Enterprise, AL, took advantage of a beautiful day to go out and do the Work of God, spreading the Good News about Jesus Christ and the salvation that comes through Him alone. As usual, the four evangelists started their session with prayer. A handful of...
“He thought it was ‘a sign’ that the team was there.”
On Super Bowl Sunday, members of SPSE South Houston, SPSE The Woodlands, and other Houston-area teams met for Mass at the co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart. More than 500 men and women who belong to religious orders throughout the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston were...