Quarterly Adult Faith Formation Workshops

Quarterly Adult Faith Formation Workshops

Purpose:

1) Support our AFF Teams in parishes and all those who work in the area of Adult Faith Formation.

2) Provide opportunities for dialogue between parishes and a time for sharing faith spiritual formation programs, methods, marketing skills and prayer.

3) Our most recent workshop was attended by 39 persons representing 12 parishes and contained reports by three adult faith formation teams (St. Andrew the Apostle, St. Gregory Barbarigo and St. Francis Xavier) and much lively discussion.

Why Should I Attend:

Top five reasons:

1) Families and singles are under great stress and look to the Church for guidance and opportunities to strengthen their faith.

2) Our Lord wants the "lukewarm" to catch the fire of love that comes with intimate communion with Him.

3) "Were not our hearts burning . . . while he opened the scriptures to us?" (Luke 24)

4) Many of our parishes are doing great work in adult faith formation and want to share their successes.

5) We want to share our diverse talents and gifts, all given by a loving God to serve one another in Christ.

Who Should Come? Anyone working in adult faith formation or aspiring to do so.

When? Thursday, January 26, 2012 6:45 PM-9:00 P.M.

Where? St. Therse Parish, 7207 NW Hwy. 9, KCMO 64152

"Adult faith formation, by which people consciously grow in the life of Christ through experience, reflection, prayer, and study, must be "the central task in [this] catechetical enterprise." (OWHB, no. 5)

Proposed agenda:

6:30-6:45 Registration and Snacks

6:45-6:55 Prayer

7:00-7:40 Presentation by an Adult Faith Formation Team

7: 40-8:00 Discussion

8: 00-8:10 Refreshment Break

8: 10-8:40 Presentation by another Adult Faith Formation Team

8: 40-8:50 Discussion

8: 50-9:00 Announcements by Office of Evangelization and Catechesis

“. . . evangelization begins with adult faith formation that produces conversions of heart. We seek to enhance and develop parishes that are centers for adult faith formation. We seek to form adults who utilize to the fullest extent their Baptismal graces and Eucharistic communion to become apostles, sent by Christ into the world. Nourished by the Word of God, the sacraments and communal life, they will share the Gospel in their homes, neighborhoods, places of work and centers of culture” (Bishop Robert W. Finn, 2007).

Office of Evangelization and Catechesis

Phone (816) 714-2308