by Mark Hornbacher | Jan 31, 2015 | Stories from the Street
Three Phoenix-area teams evangelized together at Mesa’s annual MLK festival, attended mostly by non-Catholic Christians. But, by the end of the day, so many ended up carrying Rosaries (and Catholic tracts) that it looked like a giant Catholic prayer meeting! Before...
by | Jan 30, 2015 | Evangelii Gaudium, Practical Evangelization, Stories from the Street
Adam Janke Program Director The past two years I have been honored to witness thousands of ordinary Catholics engaged in the extraordinary work of evangelization through St. Paul Street Evangelization. Through its small beginnings on a board walk in Portland, Oregon...
by Mark Hornbacher | Jan 29, 2015 | Stories from the Street
Teens from the Diocese of Lansing, MI, went to the national March for Life in Washington, DC, joining hundreds of thousands of others on the anniversary of the Roe vs Wade decision. The young Catholics were led by SPSE program director, Adam Janke, who has brought...
by Mark Hornbacher | Jan 27, 2015 | Stories from the Street
During their recent outing, the Enterprise, AL, team received a repeat visitor. Veteran evangelist Mikey Torres recalls that on the woman’s first visit, she had asked why Catholics confess to a priest. Satisfied with the team’s Biblical explanation for the practice,...
by Mark Hornbacher | Jan 26, 2015 | Stories from the Street
SPSE’s San Francisco team found the Civic Center a great place to encounter people of ALL types: professionals, city and county employees, lawyers, law students, professors, homeless, and local residents. But what did the team say? What one thing did most all have in...
by Mark Hornbacher | Jan 25, 2015 | Homilies
HOMILY, Third Sunday of Ordinary Time: January 25, 2015 Fr. Charlie Fox, Spiritual Director, St. Paul Street Evangelization (www.streetevangelization.com) Repent, believe…and fish? In today’s Gospel we cross a kind of boundary line, and begin to see John the Baptist...
by Mark Hornbacher | Jan 24, 2015 | Stories from the Street
The weather finally turned favorable in Enterprise, AL, so the SPSE team was evangelizing. They spoke with many people who were also out enjoying the good weather. One couple was new to the area. The wife was looking for a Catholic parish and her husband, although not...
by Mark Hornbacher | Jan 23, 2015 | Stories from the Street
The Orange Park, FL, team attended a big community event and talked with so many non-Catholics that they ran out of both SPSE’s Salvation and Becoming Catholic pamphlets. They also gave away 150 Rosaries and invited many inactive Catholics to return to the Faith....
by Mark Hornbacher | Jan 22, 2015 | Stories from the Street
Temperatures were in the single digits, wind chill below zero, but crowds gathered for the Plymouth, MI, Ice Festival. So the SPSE team was there, too. Evangelists met many people who were happy to receive a Rosary and prayers. One woman was glad to see us Catholics...
by Mark Hornbacher | Jan 20, 2015 | Stories from the Street
Here our evangelist Julian speaks to a fallen away Catholic about the importance of having a deep relationship with Jesus Christ in the Church that He Founded. The man was having hard times and seemed to lack joy and peace in his life. Julian was able to tell the man...
