Gente Puente: Catholic Hispanic Ministry Best Practices

Gente Puente: Catholic Hispanic Ministry Best Practices


38. Children’s Religious Education in a Shared Parish

February 21, 2020

Patti Gutiérrez Chris Corrice Show Notes: Patticc.com/38 Notas del Programa: Patticc.com/s38 Chris Corrice, Director of Religious Education at a shared parish, tells us about their religious education programs. Recommended Resources: From Patti’s Catholic Corner: Podcast episodes about Hispanic traditions of popular piety Are Hispanics not showing up for your program? Check out Patti’s blog post: The Key Strategy to Getting People to Show up Episode 14 Holistic Well-being for Ministers and my blog post “Why Can’t you Just Say No?” Free eBook about Hispanic culture and how it affects ministry Blog series about Building Intercultural Competence for Ministers Catholic Translation Services by Patti’s Catholic Corner team – if you mention this podcast episode you can get 20% off your first project with us!             Some of our recent projects have been * Jesuits West Province’s Faith Doing Justice Discernment Series (we translated the guide, handouts & PowerPoint presentations)* Knights of Columbus’ upcoming video series “Into the Breach” (we translated the scripts for the Spanish audio)* The Divine Worship and Sacraments office of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati (we are translating their extensive formation resource for training Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion)* The V Encuentro Team (we help translate, prepared closed captions for the national event videos on the page of E-resources for the Proceedings and Conclusions document)* The Claretian Missionaries’ yearly publication The Claretian Mission. I’m also putting the final edits to my 4th book I’ve translated for them, a Biography of their Co-Founder, Fr. Josep Xifré. Right now they are celebrating a Claretian Year with daily reflections that we translated as well. These translations are from Spanish to English. Resources Chris recommends: * Finding God Faith Formation program by Loyola Press* Lectionary for Masses with Children – One-Volume edition* Bilingual Children’s Bulletin Resources – sermons4kids.com, www.catholickidsbulletin.com, catholicmom.com* Called to be Catholic by Joe Paprocki, Loyola Press* Decision Point from Dynamic