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Find tools to equip and support your call to live as a misisonary disciple in your home, workplace, and community. We have combed through the thousands upon thousands of available books, videos, CDs, websites, podcasts, DVDs, and more to help you grow in your relationship with Jesus and share faith more effectively with others.  

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By: Loyola Press

Themes: Forming Missionary Disciples • Kerygma for Kids

This chart pairs the five core movements of the kerygma with Scripture passages, traditional prayers, and children’s literature. Titles include classics like You Are Special by Max Lucado, Horton Hears a Who by Dr. Seuss, and The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats, as well as Catholic resources like Dear Pope Francis and the Loyola Kids Book of Saints. Each selection offers a creative way to proclaim the Gospel story to children through images, narrative, and age-appropriate language.

 

By: CRU

Themes: Forming Missionary Disciples • Kerygma for Kids • The Kerygma

A short, visually striking video that creatively tells the Gospel story using images of creation, brokenness, sacrifice, and redemption. Its purpose is simple: to start the conversation. Paired with thoughtful follow-up questions, it opens the door for youth to reflect on their own spiritual journey and consider where they stand with Jesus. Also appropriate for middle and high school students.

 

By: Alpha USA

Themes: Forming Missionary Disciples • Kerygma for Kids

A high-quality, interactive video series designed to help teens discover and deepen a relationship with Jesus. Across 13 episodes (about 23 minutes each), filmed in global cities from London to Jerusalem, the series explores the basics of the Christian faith in a way that speaks to middle and high school youth. Each session includes engaging stories, dynamic teaching, built-in discussion starters, and downloadable leader guides to foster honest conversations about life, faith, and God.

 

By: Anita Houghton

Themes: Forming Missionary Disciples • Kerygma for Kids

A series of evangelization lesson plans designed to integrate the proclamation of the Gospel into existing faith formation programs. Each grade level (K–8) has one 60-minute lesson built around a unique theme. Lessons include age-appropriate proclamations of the kerygma, guided meditations on Scripture, animated videos, engaging activities, and opportunities for children to open their hearts to a personal friendship with Jesus. Each session also provides kids with language and confidence to share the Good News with others

 

By: Joyce Denham

Themes: Forming Missionary Disciples • Kerygma for Kids

Written under the playful pen name Sir Wyvern Pugilist, this imaginative handbook invites kids to see sin as dragons and faithful Christians as dragon slayers—equipped and led by the Chief Dragon Slayer, Jesus Christ. With humor, adventure, and engaging storytelling, the book presents the core truths of the Gospel in a way that resonates with children who love knights, weapons, and quests. A companion Study Guide is available to support leaders, teachers, or parents in using the book with individuals or groups. Especially suited for elementary and middle school students, it also makes a creative resource for First Reconciliation prep.

 

By: Tales that Tell the Truth

Themes: Forming Missionary Disciples • Kerygma for Kids

This beautifully illustrated picture book takes children on a journey from Eden to God’s perfect new creation. With simple storytelling and vivid artwork, it explains that “because of our sin, we can’t go in”—but because of Jesus’ victory on the Cross, an even better garden awaits. It is a simple yet profound proclamation of God's Love and Jesus' redemption appropriate for children. Perfect as a bedtime read-aloud or a Baptism gift.

 

By: Blessed Is She

Themes: Forming Missionary Disciples • The Kerygma

In this short video from Blessed Is She, viewers are invited to hear and respond to the heart of the Gospel message: Jesus is knocking on the door of your heart, offering His love and life fully and forever. The video includes a simple prayer of commitment—adapted from Catholic Christian Outreach’s Ultimate Relationship resource—that guides anyone ready to place (or re-place) Jesus at the center of their life.

 

By: Ascension Presents

Themes: Forming Missionary Disciples • The Kerygma

In this short but powerful video, Fr. Angelus and Fr. Mark-Mary of the CFRs remind us of the most important truth we can ever know: God the Father loves us. Through a personal story of a young man moved to tears by hearing that simple message, they invite viewers to pause, reflect, and let God’s love sink in.

 

By: Kristin Bird

Themes: Forming Missionary Disciples • The Kerygma

In this inspirational talk, Catholic speaker Kristin Bird unpacks the not-so-secret identity of every baptized Christian: we are beloved sons and daughters of God, set free by the One who is Love. Jesus not only breaks the power of sin in our lives but shares His divine life with us. With clarity and warmth, Kristin explains what it means to live in the true freedom of Jesus’ Kingdom. Available as an MP3 download.

 

By: Kristin Bird

Themes: Forming Missionary Disciples • The Kerygma

In this powerful audio talk, Catholic evangelist Kristin Bird proclaims the life-changing truth that we are deeply loved by a God who delights in us—simply because we are His. With honesty, humor, and practical stories, Kristin helps listeners recognize the obstacles that keep us from saying “yes” to the Father’s love and offers a new way of approaching relationship with Him. Available as an affordable MP3 download.

 

By: Alpha USA

Themes: Forming Missionary Disciples • The Kerygma

Alpha is an 11-week small-group experience that creates a welcoming space—online or in person—for people to explore life’s biggest questions and the basics of the Christian faith. Each session includes a talk (video) on a central faith question followed by open conversation. Alpha in a Catholic Context adapts the internationally recognized Alpha format for Catholic audiences, with particular attention to session eleven, which focuses on the Church.

 

By: Bobby Garabedian

Themes: Forming Missionary Disciples • The Kerygma

Most (Czech for “The Bridge”) is an Academy Award–nominated short film directed by Bobby Garabedian. Shot on location in the Czech Republic and Poland, it tells the gripping story of a devoted bridge operator and his young son, and the tragic day when they face an unthinkable decision to save hundreds of unsuspecting train passengers. The film, at once heart-wrenching and redemptive, powerfully portrays themes of love, sacrifice, hope, and forgiveness. A discussion guide is also available to help viewers process and reflect on its deeper meaning.

 

By: Fr. John Ricardo

Themes: Forming Missionary Disciples • The Kerygma

Led by Fr. John Riccardo, The Rescue Challenge is a 14-day podcast journey designed to help listeners rediscover true hope through the Gospel. Each day offers a short reflection that invites prayer, renews the mind, and strengthens trust in the only One who makes all the difference—Jesus Christ. Rooted in The Story proclaimed by ACTS XXIX’s Rescue Project, this challenge makes space for a daily encounter with Christ in the midst of ordinary life.

 

By: Catholic Christian Outreach

Themes: Forming Missionary Disciples • The Kerygma

The Ultimate Relationship is a small, accessible booklet created by Catholic Christian Outreach to help anyone share the Gospel clearly, simply, and personally. In just a few minutes, it presents the core message of God’s love and Christ’s invitation to relationship, while giving the listener an opportunity to respond in faith. Training videos are available online to help users share the booklet with confidence. It is offered in many languages and as a free digital download.

 

By: Barbara Mason Reed

Themes: Forming Missionary Disciples • The Kerygma

Kerygma: A Proclamation of the Gospel of Jesus Christ is a Catholic, Bible-based retreat designed to help participants personally encounter the living Lord. Through Scripture, prayer, and Church teaching, it announces the Good News in a way that invites renewal of the gifts and graces received in Baptism and Confirmation. Unlike an academic study, this retreat focuses on encounter and response—giving Catholics who may never have heard the basic Gospel message the chance to experience its life-changing power.

 

By: Joe Paprocki

Themes: Forming Missionary Disciples • The Kerygma

Many Catholics feel catechized but not “evangelized”, meaning they know about Jesus but do not feel they know him personally. The bridge between where we are and where we want to be in our faith journey can be confusing without the right guidance. In Under the Influence of Jesus, best-selling author Joe Paprocki explains complex spiritual concepts with engaging discussion so that “everyday” Catholics can integrate and articulate their faith and live the Gospel in a way that is simple, compelling, contemporary, liberating, and life-changing.

 

By: Catholic Christian Outreach

Themes: Forming Missionary Disciples • The Kerygma

The Catholic Christian Outreach (CCO) Faith Study Series is a set of five thematic small-group studies designed to clearly explain the truths of the Catholic faith and outline practical principles for Christian living. The first study, Discovery, is a six-week journey through the core Gospel message. With clear leader guides, reflection questions, and intentional structure, it helps participants not only understand the kerygma but also personally respond to it.

 

By: Acts XXIX

Themes: Forming Missionary Disciples • The Kerygma

The Rescue Project is an eight-week small group experience of the Gospel—shared over food, conversation, and prayer. Each week’s session proclaims the Gospel message in a clear, compelling, and deeply human way, inviting participants into authentic dialogue and personal encounter with Jesus Christ. Designed for accessibility and beauty, it’s adaptable to nearly any context: parishes, homes, workplaces, schools, prisons, dorms, or even bars. And it’s completely free to use.

 

By: Burning Hearts Disciples

Themes: Forming Missionary Disciples • The Kerygma

This handout defines the term kerygma and explains its biblical and theological foundations. It highlights examples from Scripture, quotes from popes, and a simple five-part summary of the Gospel message. Reflection questions invite participants to consider their own experience of the kerygma and how they might proclaim it to others.

 

By: The Diocese of Green Bay

Themes: Forming Missionary Disciples • The Kerygma

This guide introduces the kerygma—the core proclamation of the Gospel—through five key movements: Creation, Fall, Redemption, Salvation, and Re-Creation. Each section includes Scripture, reflection questions, prayers, and sacred art to help participants encounter Christ personally and reflect on His saving work.  Also available in Spanish.

 

By: Catholic Christian Outreach

Themes: Forming Missionary Disciples • Share Your Faith: The Power of Story

This video is a clip from a parish mission where Kristin Bird explores why storytelling is essential for evangelization. Drawing on Scripture, developmental psychology, and real-life examples, she shows how story bypasses debate, captures attention, and opens hearts to the Gospel. From Jesus’ parables to modern movies and family life, the talk illustrates how stories communicate truth in ways argument alone cannot.

 

By: Catholic Christian Outreach

Themes: How to Evangelize • Share Your Faith: The Power of Story

This episode of the Missionary Disciple Podcast (S2 E24) unpacks what CCO means by a “personal testimony” and how to share it clearly. The team walks through a simple structure (before → encounter/decision → after), emphasizes naming the concrete moment of decision to follow Jesus, and shows how to keep the kerygma at the center. They model right-sized versions (three sentences, three minutes, thirty minutes), offer do’s and don’ts (be vulnerable but concise, avoid unnecessary detail, end with an invitation), and explain why authentic witness breaks through debate and builds trust in accompaniment.

 

By: University of Mary Press

Themes: Share Your Faith: The Power of Story

From Christendom to Apostolic Mission offers a clear diagnosis of the cultural moment we live in and why the Church can no longer rely on the assumptions of a Christendom culture. Instead, it calls us to embrace the mindset and strategies of an apostolic age — one in which faith must be shared person-to-person, heart-to-heart, through authentic witness and intentional evangelization.

 

By: Michael Gormley & Dave VanVickle

Themes: How to Evangelize • Share Your Faith: The Power of Story

Every Knee Shall Bow is a podcast hosted by lay Catholic evangelists Michael Gormley and Dave VanVickle, equipping Catholics to confidently share their faith at home, at work, and beyond. In the episode The Power of Storytelling, they explore why narrative is essential in evangelization. From contextualizing doctrine with stories to inviting others to share their own experiences, they highlight how stories make the Gospel come alive. The Gospel itself is an adventure story meant not only to be lived, but also to be passed on from generation to generation.

 

By: Chris Kostelc and Kory LaCroix

Themes: Share Your Faith: The Power of Story

The Storydram Podcast is all about the power of small stories with big impact. Hosts Chris Kostelc and Kory LaCroix share short, real-life stories as a way of practicing evangelization and encouraging others to do the same. Instead of quick soundbites or arguments, they model how a simple story can open hearts and make conversations more authentic.

 

By: William A. Barry, SJ

Themes: Share Your Faith: The Power of Story

In God’s Great Story and You, Jesuit spiritual director William Barry invites readers to see their lives as part of God’s larger story of love and salvation. Drawing on Scripture, Ignatian spirituality, and everyday experience, he shows how God’s story is not abstract history but an ongoing relationship that includes each one of us. Barry helps readers reflect on their personal experiences of grace and connect them to the broader narrative of God’s work in the world.

 

By: Bishop Robert Barron

Themes: Share Your Faith: The Power of Story

In Seeds of the Word, Bishop Robert Barron explores how God’s truth, goodness, and beauty are reflected in the culture around us — in films, books, music, and everyday life. Drawing on the early Church Fathers’ idea of “seeds of the Word” scattered throughout creation, Barron demonstrates how popular stories can serve as entry points to deeper conversations about the Gospel.

 

By: Bishop Louis Kihneman

Themes: Equipping Leadership • Forming Missionary Disciples • Mission

Bishop Kihneman wrote Missio Nostra to serve as a guide to help all the parishes, schools, families and minsitries in the Diocese of Biloxi make  the "shift from maintenance to answering the Great Commission of Jesus."  It is a practical guide that takes the time to explain and define foundational concepts, provides practical suggestions and recommendations for implementation, and encourages all Catholics to reflect on how they can better live out the Great Commission in their personal lives & families as well as in their schools, parishes, and ministries.  It is available in English, Spanish, French and Vietnamese.  

 

By: Gary Chapman

Themes: 5 Love Languages

Learn your love language. Take the profile that suits you & discover your primary love language, what it means, and how you can use it to connect with your loved one with intimacy and fulfillment.  ...

 

By: Gary Chapman

Themes: 5 Love Languages

In the #1 New York Times bestseller The 5 Love Languages, you’ll discover the secret that has transformed millions of relationships worldwide. Whether your relationship is flourishing or failing, Dr. Gary Chapman’s proven approach to showing and receiving love will help you experience deeper and richer levels of intimacy with your partner—starting today...

 

By: Kristin Bird

Themes: 5 Love Languages • The Kerygma

The truth is that we are loved by a God who delights in us - simply because we are His. In this powerful talk, noted Catholic evangelist Kristin Bird breaks open the message of God's unconditional love and mercy for us. Using practical examples and humor, mixed with Kristin's honest and direct approach, this moving presentation will reveal the obstacles that get in the way of our saying "yes" to the Father's love and present us a new way of approaching our relationship with God...

 

By: Burning Hearts Disciples

Themes: 5 Love Languages

If you were certain that the God of the universe delighted in you, would it change your life in any way? We hear others say that God loves us, yet sometimes we may feel unloved. We all have a deep longing, a desire to know that we are loved deeply. With an awareness of unchanging love, we find a settled security for our lives.  This download offers prayer suggestions and reflections for each of the different love languages...

 

By: Mark Hart

Themes: How Do You Pray?

Many would say the most important prayer we can say is the "Our Father" Why? Because Jesus himself taught us this prayer!  And yet, it is so easy to fall into the rote repetition of the words of this classic prayer without really engaging our hearts with it. More than a series of petitions, the Lord's Prayer is a way for us to connect deeply with the heart of our heavenly Father.  In The "R" Father, popular Catholic author Mark Hart reflects on each of the words and phrases of the Our Father, he emphasizes the intimate relationship that God desires to have with us...

 

By: Katie Warner)

Themes: Discipleship at Home

Husbands and wives. Fathers and Mothers. Breadwinners and Homemakers. As men and women, we have many ways of approaching our roles in family life. But what if we could find even deeper meaning in our God-given vocations by viewing ourselves as the spiritual head or the spiritual heart of our family?  In Head & Heart: Becoming Spiritual Leaders for Your Family, author Katie Warner unveils seven characteristics of strong spiritual leaders and provides practical tools for leading and loving our families toward heaven.

 

By: Joe Paprocki

Themes: Forming Missionary Disciples

A Church on the Move offers 52 practical strategies for moving parishes forward, principally by focusing on the one thing the Church can offer that the world-at-large cannot: Jesus Christ.  Joe Paprocki believes that with the right plans in place, the Catholic Church—and the local parish specifically—will not only survive, but thrive.  Each chapter begins with a quote from Pope Francis, and each helpful strategy falls within one of five key categories: how a Church on the move thinks, functions, worships, forms disciples, and engages the world. Every chapter takes an honest look at a particular problem in the Church before moving to a creative, redemptive, and achievable solution...

 

By: Fr. John Ricardo

Themes: Forming Missionary Disciples • The Kerygma

Fr. John Riccardo lays out the kerygma with urgency and clarity in this 45 min video.  Using vivid images (D-Day, “ambush predator,” the “strong man” bound, Col 2:15’s Roman triumph), he shows that Jesus didn’t come mainly to tell stories—He came to fight for us and rescue us from powers we cannot defeat on our own. The result is a Gospel that overwhelms the heart and sends us out with hope.