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EVANGELIZATION
Ascension Presents is an evangelistic platform bringing faith-filled, entertaining and dynamic presenters straight to your newsfeed. By providing engaging content for our audience that reflects the good, the true and the beautiful we hope to bring their hearts closer to Christ.
Website: www.ascensionpresents.com
YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCVdGX3N-WIJ5nUvklBTNhAw/
Bishop Robert Barron, Catholic theologian and author, shares brief and insightful commentaries on faith and culture via his YouTube channel. The videos complement his weekly sermons posted and podcasted on his website WordOnFire.org.
https://www.youtube.com/user/wordonfirevideo
Catholic Answers is an apostolate dedicated to serving Christ by bringing the fullness of Catholic truth to the world. We help good Catholics become better Catholics, bring former Catholics "home," and lead non-Catholics into the fullness of the faith.
https://www.catholic.com/
https://www.youtube.com/user/catholiccom
Seasons of Faith is a weekly online publication for faith sharing, prayer, and service issued throughout the year by the Diocese of San Bernardino Office of Evangelization. They follow the Sunday readings and are available in English and Spanish.
https://www.evanaff.org/bulletins
fundraisingTotally Catholic Fundraising will send you a gift shop in a box. All items are on consignment. You sell the items over two weekends. Your ministry keeps 50% of the profit.
http://www.totallycatholicfundraising.com
Research
The Research Group of Saint Mary’s Press is particularly interested in the personal narratives of youth and young adults and their reasons for affiliating and disaffiliating with the Catholic Church specifically, and religion generally. Our research is made available to the public with the hope of contributing to a common exploration across all religious traditions and people of goodwill.
http://catholicresearch.smp.org
Sexual Integrity and Morality
Chastity Project - a ministry focused solely on promoting purity by making chastity resources available to as many souls around the world as possible. Chastity Project believes that young people play a pivotal role in the new evangelization, and therefore invites them to launch chastity projects within their schools and churches to promote the good news of purity to their peers. Those who minister to teens today have unlimited needs, but very limited budgets. Through low-cost resource distribution, media appearances, seminars, and social media, Chastity Project exists to promote the virtue of chastity so that individuals can see God, and be free to love (Matt. 5:8).
https://chastity.com/
Fight the New Drug - a non-religious and non-legislative organization that exists to provide individuals the opportunity to make an informed decision regarding pornography by raising awareness on its harmful effects using only science, facts, and personal accounts.
https://fightthenewdrug.org/
Culture Project - an initiative of young people set out to restore culture through the experience of virtue.We proclaim the dignity of the human person and the richness of living sexual integrity, inviting our culture to become fully alive.
https://restoreculture.org/
speakers
Culture Project has 5 missionaries living in Archdiocese of San Francisco October 16, 2018 to mid-May 2019. They are available free of charge to speak at your parish on topics including Human Dignity, Sexual Integrity, and Social Media. They have English and Spanish speakers.
http://restoreculture.org
training
Catechetical Institute offers a Parish Catechetical Leader track that is the official training encouraged by the Archdiocese of San Francisco for young adult leaders. Several ministry tracks are available and more to come.
http://franciscanathome.com/sf
volunteering
Gabriel Project works to provide hope, spiritual support as well as material support to women with crisis pregnancies.
https://sfgabrielproject.wordpress.com/
https://facebook.com/epiphanysfgabrielprojectCatholic Volunteer Network offers a searchable database of volunteer opportunities which can be sorted by location, length of time, ministry, etc.
www.catholicvolunteernetwork.org
Comeback Youth Restorative Justice Ministry is a new ministry of support and rapport for Comeback Youth! Comeback Youth are young men and women who have been incarcerated ("small setback...) and are hoping to enter back into our community with a running start and trusted mentor (...for a major comeback"). Ministers share in the duty of delivering :Jesus: in Sunday communion services, designing :fire: small group activities, and opening up hope through real-talk with participants.
- Ministry is 3rd, 4th, 5th Sundays of the month, 12:45-2:15pm
- Looking for friendly, non-judgemental persons over 18 who are willing to bring Christ into deep conversations and out of Comeback Youth
- All ministers will be trained and supported by the St. Vincent de Paul Society of San Mateo
"I was in jail and you visited me...for what you do to the least of these, you do unto me"
Jesus of Nazareth
Contacts:
- (Coordinator) Matthew Gonzalez matthew.gonzalez@alumni.stanford.edu
- (Tech Volunteer) Jay Evans jevans2@alumni.stanford.edu
- (Logistics) Paola Moreno-Roman paolamr@stanford.edu
St. Anthony's Dining Room in San Francisco provides meals, clothing, medical care, addiction recovery assistance, technology access and training to those in need. Volunteers are welcome as individuals or in groups.
https://www.stanthonysf.org/dining-room/
St. Anthony's Padua Dining Room in Menlo Park provides meals, clothing, and medical advice to those in need on the peninsula. Volunteers are welcome as individuals or in groups.
http://paduadiningroom.com/
St. Francis Memorial Hospital is in great need of Eucharistic Minister Volunteers to distribute the Eucharist to Catholic Patients during their hospitalization. It is very meaningful for Catholics to receive the Eucharist while they are in the hospital and it contributes greatly to their healing. We are looking for volunteers that can donate about one hour of their time, one day per week. If you are interested please contact Preston at Preston.Becker@DignityHealth.org or by phone at 415-353-6343.