A Way Forward Retreat
St. Mary Catholic Community • Appleton, WI
As we prepare to create and implement a five-year strategic plan in early 2023, this retreat is an opportunity to integrate our mission, vision, and core values into our lives.
It's a moment for our parish to come together, to be inspired, to kindle the spark of the Holy Spirit as we begin to make our parish dreams a reality in our community.
If you would like to talk to someone about how to walk with others into conversion and discipleship, or want to talk with someone about where you are on your journey of discipleship please don't hesitate to contact us.
Share Your Story! Tell us about your experience of the Retreat!
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:
Session i: Mission & Identity
Downloads
Additional Recommended Resources
Forming Intentional Disciples
(Sherry Weddell) 
Evangelii Gaudium: The Joy of the Gospel (Pope Francis) 
Evangelii Nuntiandi: On Evangelization in the Modern World
(St. Pope Paul VI) 
Pray Your Way to an Evangelizing Heart Resources from Burning Hearts
Quotes
Evangelizing is in fact the grace and vocation proper to the Church, her deepest identity. She exists in order to evangelize.
Pope St. Paul VI, Evangelii Nuntiandi
Small changes to small things are a waste of time. Small changes to big things are dangerous because they create the illusion of progress. Big changes to small things are great - we need lots of them! But big changes to big things…now that will change our trajectory!
Roger Enrico, CEO Pepsico
Session iI: The Evangelization Process: What is a Disciple?
Downloads
Additional Recommended Resources
Living as Missionary Disciples: Resource for Evangelization (USCCB) 
Disciples on the Way: An Invitation
(Bishop David Ricken) 
The Kerygma For Catholics: What is the Kerygma? 
Video: All We Have to Do Is Say Yes - using Ultimate Relationship from Catholic Christian Outreach
Quotes
Pope Francis is urging all of us to reach out; to be deeply rooted in prayer by developing an intimate friendship with Jesus Christ. He asks us to share the fruits of the spiritual intimacy we have with Jesus with everyone in our lives, so others see the joy of Christ shining forth in us. Joy comes from living a life fully rooted in Christ so that ‘it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me, the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me’ (Galatians 2:20).
Bishop Ricken, Disciples on the Way
“It is necessary to awaken again in believers a full relationship with Christ, mankind’s only Savior. Only from a personal relationship with Jesus can an effective evangelization develop.”
St. John Paul II, Dec. 4, 1992
Session III: 5 Paradigms for parish renewal
Downloads
Additional Recommended Resources
Ablaze: 5 Essential Paradigm Shifts for Parish Renewal (Strohm) 
Made for Mission: Renewing Your Parish Culture (Tim Glemkowski) 
Start With Jesus: How Everyday Disicples Will Renew the Church
(Julianne Stanz) 
An Examination of Conscience for Evangelizers (Burning Hearts Disciples)
If you would like to continue the conversation about making disciples in your parish, please don't hesitate to contact us.
Share Your Story! Tell us about your experience of the Retreat!