by Mark Hornbacher | Sep 12, 2015 | Stories from the Street
El Cerrito, CA. A good analogy goes a long way. The Berkeley, California team met a man named Daniel at the El Cerrito Plaza. It was after having spoken to another man who told them of his long spiritual quest. Daniel gave the evangelists his story. He was disowned by...
by Mark Hornbacher | Sep 11, 2015 | Stories from the Street
North Adams, MA. It was a beautiful, sunny day at the Farmer’s Market for the North Adams, Massachusetts SPSE team. They set up at 9 AM, with two newcomers: Rick, and Joe. During the course of the 4 hours they were there, they had some powerful experiences of the Love...
by Mark Hornbacher | Sep 10, 2015 | Stories from the Street
Decatur, GA. It is a great blessing to see the fruits of your previous efforts, and to make new connections with people while evangelizing. On a recent evangelization outing in Decatur, Georgia, street evangelists met several people whom they had encountered in...
by Mark Hornbacher | Sep 9, 2015 | Stories from the Street
San Diego, CA. A couple weeks ago the North County Saint Paul Street Evangelization team met in Balboa Park to give out rosaries and pamphlets, and to talk to those passing by. They had a great time. Among the evangelists that day was Trent Horn, of Catholic Answers,...
by Mark Hornbacher | Sep 8, 2015 | Stories from the Street, Techniques
Detroit, MI. It was a beautiful day at Eastern Market in downtown Detroit where street evangelists encountered hundreds of people. They used a few approaches that worked well the previous week at the Woodward Dream Cruise. For example, they asked many people...
by Mark Hornbacher | Sep 7, 2015 | Stories from the Street
San Francisco, CA. Ted and Robert from the San Francisco team went to the Civic Center Plaza to evangelize on a Saturday. At first it was very slow except for those who protested against the Catholic Church or Christianity in general. Some were angry. Many Protestants...
by Mark Hornbacher | Sep 6, 2015 | Stories from the Street
Lincoln, NE. Evangelists John, Kevin, Bob, Father Brian, and Deacon Evan hit the streets! Though they got off to a slow start because of a rainstorm, by about 10:15 AM the rain had stopped and the evangelization could begin. “Ida” accepted a rosary and asked the...
by Mark Hornbacher | Sep 5, 2015 | Stories from the Street
Flint, MI. Teens from the Diocese of Lansing gathered for a third year in Flint, MI for “The Mission”, a week long summer project to serve the city’s poor. St. Paul Street Evangelization has always been a part of this effort, training 18 of the 80 teens to...
by Mark Hornbacher | Sep 4, 2015 | Stories from the Street
Indianapolis, IN. Peter Lamporte teams up with SPSE founder Steve Dawson, taking the faith to the streets of Indianapolis, IN. The two just walked down the street, talking to people. In this picture, we see Peter putting a miraculous medal on a man they spoke to for a...
by Mark Hornbacher | Sep 4, 2015 | Practical Evangelization, Principles
By Joseph J. Serwach Sharing your faith publicly gives others hope. Esquire writer Tom Chiarella, investigating “the power of the uniform’’ recently decided to walk through Chicago dressed as a priest, a mechanic, a security guard and a doctor (on different days) to...
