Discovering Christ
Discovering Christ is a seven-week evangelizing process. It is a course that provides a relational context in which members of a parish, campus ministry, etc. can bring family and friends to hear the good news and personally encounter Jesus Christ.
The Course
The course consists of seven sessions and a retreat day. Each session includes four components: a dinner (if the course is offered in the evening), a prayer time, a teaching, and a small group discussion. Each component is vital to the evangelizing process of Discovering Christ.
A Typical Evening Schedule
6:45 – Dinner
7:30 – Welcome and Prayer
7:45 – Teaching (video-based or live)
8:30 – Break and Small Group Discussion
9:15 – End
Catholic Way Bible Study
The Catholic Way Bible Study is a curriculum resource offering individual sessions, short-term series, and long-term series focusing on particular biblical topics. The curriculum is easy and user friendly to implement in a parish or individual setting, offering a life changing journey through the Sacred Scriptures.
All Studies and Series are appropriate for parish use, RCIA, adult education programs, retreats, parish youth ministries and continuing education for Catechist and Deacon Formation.
Once a study is purchased, it becomes a part of the parish’s library and can be used over and over again. Just print out the needed materials.
Rediscover Catholicism
by Matthew Kelly, with Study Guide
This is a six-session program that includes how to live an authentic Catholic life via “the seven
pillars of Catholic spirituality”: Confession, contemplation, the Mass, the Bible, fasting, spiritual reading, and the rosary.
Target audience is Catholics who are ‘in-between’…they know they want to come back have decided to or are considering a return to the faith, and want more information and spiritual guidance. This may serve as a logical follow-up to CRH (Catholics Returning/Come Home).
Copies of the book are available from the Dynamic Catholic website Catholic Book Program for a discounted price ($2 or $3 per copy). Participants may be asked to purchase their books from the program for a small fee or the program may provide complimentary copies.
Hardcopies of the study guide may be printed by parish or may be left to the responsibility of the program participant (PDF of Study Guide may be downloaded from Dynamic Catholic Website.)
CATHOLICISM:
An Adult Formation Program
with Father Robert Barron
Who: Introduction and orientation [for session leaders] by members of Diocesan Evangelization Committee. Study sessions would be led by designated member(s) of the parish.
Cost: Study Program Leader’s Kit: DVD Box Set (5 DVDs, each containing 2 episodes), Leader’s Edition: Study Guide and Workbook, Catholicism: A Journey to the Heart of the Faith, set of 40 prayer cards and Faith Clips DVD (50 questions and answers on faith.) $249.95. Student Study Guide and Workbook $24.95
For order inquiries, call toll-free 866-928-1237 or email sales@wordonfire.org.
Target Audience: Series can serve in ministry to RCIA and other adult lay formation; in training adult catechists; diaconate and other ministerial training; and mature high school or college/university coursework.
Suggested program structure: Foundational – Twenty-two 60-minute sessions; Intensive – Twelve 2-2.5 hour sessions or Streamlined – Twelve 1.5 hour sessions.
Great Adventure Bible Study
by Jeff Cavins
What: Parish Religious Education Program utilizing the Great Adventure Bible Timeline Video Overview of Salvation History to provide teaching the fourteen narrative books of the Bible covering each period of salvation history (24 part series). Each 50-55 minute presentation has an accompanying lesson in The Bible Timeline Study Kit.
Who: Study program leader(s) designated by the parish.
Cost: Study Program Leader’s Kit: DVD Box Set and a leader guide, provided upon request, $399.99. The Bible Timeline Study Guide. $40.95
Target Audience: Series can serve in ministry to RCIA and other adult lay formation; in training adult catechists; diaconate and other ministerial training; and mature high school or college/university coursework.
Adult Faith Formation: Catholic Small Groups and Resources
On the website of the Diocese of Sioux Falls, you’ll find:
Tips for starting and structuring small groups; recommended books for small group ministry, small group ministry programs, and recommended books for reading in a small group format; small group bible study programs;
women’s small group programs and recommended reading for women’s small groups; and finally, men’s small group programs and recommended reading for men’s small groups and websites for Catholic men.