Somerville - Immaculate Conception
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God's Blessing and Healing
Alpa, Mary Ann, Wilber and Carol were on the evangelization schedule for this Saturday. One important encounter: May we unite as the Body of Christ, The Church, to pray for a young man suffering from addiction. I met him on the street in Somerville. I
Read More →A Terrific Opportunity
I'm currently a student of the St. Paul Online School of Evangelization. It was a pleasant surprise when SPSE recently hosted a training event in my diocese that was led by SPSE COO Adam Janke. Knowing that we'd go out onto the streets of downtown
Read More →Main Street
This report is from evangelists Michael and Carolyn with our Somerville Immaculate Conception parish team in NJ: Today was hot and humid on the streets of Somerville, yet the Holy Spirit was absolutely present! It was Michael and Carolyn out evangelizing, with Edith serving as
Read More →Main Street
On Main Street yesterday, there was a good amount of foot traffic. I encountered a gentleman, Marcus, who wanted a Rosary. When asking if he was Catholic, he said he was, but has fallen away the past few years. He still says little prayers throughout
Read More →Main Street, Pt. 2
There was one gentleman who seemed troubled. He was interested in accepting a rosary and said that he grew up Catholic. However, he said that he hadn’t gone to confession in a while, and had lost his way as a young adult. He kept refusing
Read More →Main Street, Pt. 1
Today our three newest evangelists met up at our usual spot on Main Street in Somerville for their second taste at putting their SPSE training into practice. It was a beautiful day outside, and there was a lot of foot traffic from those enjoying the
Read More →New Evangelists, Pt. 2
We spoke to a young man whose family were devout Catholics, but he said that he just didn’t believe in the afterlife and God. He said he had known many church going people who were hypocrites and while he was always respectful of them and
Read More →New Evangelists, Pt. 1
We recently had a group training session for new evangelists on Saturday afternoon hosted by SPSE. After the training, two newly trained evangelists went out with three more experienced evangelists and hit Main Street in Somerville for a mini street evangelization session (30 minutes), wanting
Read More →Steady Traffic on Main Street, Pt. 1
We set up our table on Main Street and right away, even before we had started to pray our protection and evangelization prayers, someone took a rosary. We spoke to a mother and daughter who were Catholic. The mom had not attended Mass for the
Read More →God's Divine Providence
On a cold and dark Saturday afternoon, we were back on Main Street. With God’s Divine Providence, we expanded the Street Evangelization Team from just three to five evangelists and three Prayer Warriors, one of whom is a Spanish speaker, which this team needed desperately!
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