I teach Catholic churches, businesses, and ministries how to market like Jesus. Every Monday, I send out the latest musings on Catholic marketing from my position as a Catholic marketing professional, former parish employee, and regular old Catholic mom trying not to lose my mind while raising saints. Subscribe if you want to learn how to apply the strategies Jesus and the apostles used to grow the Early Church to your own marketing work today!
Use this to get more catechists this year.
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Opinion: I think trying to find catechists is more stressful for Faith Formation staff than sacrament season. Sacrament season certainly has its challenges, but there's also a joy and Holy Spirit electricity that keeps you going. Trying to avoid playing Tetris with your most popular class session that you still don't have a catechist for? Not as inspiring. If you're like most Faith Formation/PSR programs I've encountered, you struggle to find catechists to teach your classes. You put out bulletin pleas, post on social media, and maybe even get up to speak after all the Masses. But before you write off a lack of catechists as a lack of faith and willingness in your congregation, there may be another reason: How you're asking for them. To help, I put together a guide uncovering the three communication reasons parishes don't get more catechists - and the good news is they're easily fixable! (Especially when I give you the copy and paste version of exactly what I'd change in your bulletin and newsletter promotions!) Tips #1 and 2 can help you get more catechists this year; tip #3 is to help you so you won't have this struggle next year. So go download your copy of this free guide now - I'll be praying it helps bring more wonderful catechists to help you lead young souls to Christ this year! For His greater glory, Emily |
Market Like Jesus: The Catholic Marketing Newsletter
I teach Catholic churches, businesses, and ministries how to market like Jesus. Every Monday, I send out the latest musings on Catholic marketing from my position as a Catholic marketing professional, former parish employee, and regular old Catholic mom trying not to lose my mind while raising saints. Subscribe if you want to learn how to apply the strategies Jesus and the apostles used to grow the Early Church to your own marketing work today!
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I had a lot of big goals this summer. Clean our home office. Go to a daily Mass with the kids once a week. Visit each of our area farmer's markets to see which one we like the best. While I continue to write these newsletters to you in a very cluttered office having gone to maybe 4 daily Masses and exactly zero farmer's markets this summer, I decided to rectify the latter by taking all three kids with me to our town's new farmer's market last week. It was...kind of a let down, after all of...