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Tackle Hunger: Leading a Leader Towards Meaningful Community Service
(2012)My design is to hold a food drive for Human Services, Inc. to be held during a home football game. | plan on meeting and talking to the head coach of the football team and the Athletic Director beforehand to finalize ... -
Taking the Time to Make a Difference / Tomarse el Tiempo para Hacer la Differencia: A Dual-Language Introduction to the Christian Family Movement
(2011)This pastoral project proceeded through several stages of theological reflection involving the directors of CFM and friends of CFM working in Hispanic ministry: a planning stage reflection; implementation stage reflection; ... -
A Teacher Handbook for Grade 7
(1994)The designing and planning of a teacher handbook for the Seventh Grade catechists of the religious education program at St. Francis Assisi Parish in Teutopolis, Illinois, is a response to a significant pastoral need of ... -
Teaching Those you Reach: A Response to the Growing Adult Education Needs of the American Baby Boomer Population in a Mega-Church
(1996)Churches are faced with increasing demands for services and support from regular attendees and visitors alike. As a teacher and program planner in the adult education training ministry of Willow Creek Community Church, ... -
Team Building Workshop for Parish Staff Members
(2005)To begin my planning for the workshop I contacted several of my Christ Renews His Parish reach out team members. These groups of Christ Renews team members go into new parishes to start the program. Christ Renews is a ... -
Teens in Religious Education Plan Proposal
(1994)My pastoral concern is two-fold. 1. As a DRE, one of my responsibilities is to provide educated, energetic, spirit-filled teachers for our ‘Religious Education Program. This year I needed a teacher for the first ... -
Theater as Transformance
(1995)As contemporary American Christians we have a secular/religious dichotomy ingrained in us. This reflects the principle of the separation of church and state upon which our nation was founded. We are comfortable with the ... -
A Theological Reflection Process on Communal Prayer in the Ursuline Community of Youngstown, Ohio
(1992)Communal prayer is an essential element of religious life. The Constitutions and the Mission Statement of the Youngstown Ursulines affirm the basic need for communal prayer in the lives of their members. These ministerially ... -
The Therapeutic Aspects of Life Review for the Hospice Patient
(1995)Working with the dying person in hospice ministry, I see a great need for the dying person to reminisce. Most of the hospice patients that I work with are in mid-life or in or past the fifth decade and thus have a high ... -
The Three R’s: Re-member, Renew, Respond: Nurturing a Lay Spirituality For Certified Lay Ministers of the Rockford Diocese
(2005)This project was born out of my participation in the Ministry Formation program in the Diocese of Rockford, IL. This is a two-year program that provides a basic formation experience fostering adult faith and the skills ... -
Truth and Love: The Message of the Pro-Life Movement
(2009)Roughly one quarter of all American pregnancies end with an aborted life (USCCB Publication no. 5-714). How can I, in a positive manner, deal with this evil and offense to God in my ministry? I propose to assemble a ... -
The Understanding Care-Giver
(1988)This project consists of a seven-hour workshop and a two-hour follow-up session for lay care-givers who serve in various institutions, churches and agencies of Rochelle, Illinois. Because of the varied schedules of ... -
The Use of Creative Process in Theological Reflection
(1994)Recently, I have been privileged to be on staff at a retreat and reflection center in Ossining, New York, and have been involved in providing processes using art media as an adjunct to retreats and workshops held there. ... -
Vocational Discernment to the Holy Order of Deacon: A program for the Diocese of Austin and the Diocese of San Angelo
(2000)This project is the attempt to design, implement and evaluate a program that addresses spiritual and pastoral concerns of such discernment. In an age that demands quick responses, quick action and accurate information ... -
The Volunteer Ministry Institute: A Process of Formation for Volunteers in Ministry
(1994)The purpose of this project was to respond to an urgent need within the Catholic Diocese of Cleveland. Over several years an attempt had been made to provide an umbrella (i.e. diocesan standard) formation program for ... -
We Come to the Table Together...Refining a Parish Communion Rite
(1991)The Pastoral concern being addressed by this project proposal is that of developing a faith community which sees itself as the "primary minister" of our Sunday liturgies. Virtually all liturgists writing today agree ... -
Weaving Threads of Peace in Our Parishes: A Journey from Fear to Love
(1989)I propose then for my pastoral project to show how the impact of Vatican II's rearrangement of our Catholic themes (identity) and emphases (mission) can provide Catholic adults with the opportunity to forge new trails, ... -
Welcoming Returning Catholics: Beginning a New Parish Program
(1992)During the last two years while working with the R.C.I.A. program at St. Francis de Sales Parish, Holland, Michigan, a special need has become evident. A program which was intended to serve people who desired to become ... -
What Does it Mean to Bring Eucharist? A Theological Reflection and Skill Development Formation Retreat for the Healing Ministers of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish in Newport News, Virginia
(2004)Pastoral care is a ministry of presence and listening. The pastoral care of Catholics must include attention to sacramental desires. There are three sacraments commonly requested or desired by persons homebound or ... -
When Hello Means Goodbye... When a baby dies: Living with Perinatal Loss Understanding the Grief Process Through Miscarriage, Still-Birth or Infant Death
(2009)In our modern culture, we live in a time of conflicting beliefs. Many people and faiths have and promote a strong belief in the “right to life,” participating in marches and campaigns that go along with this stance, yet ...