This year's Parish Day of Renewal focused on the second step of our threefold evangelization paradigm
Encounter/Grow/Witness
: Grow. The virtual event included bold and innovative ideas and resources to further help every one of our parishes — and families of parishes — truly become hubs for evangelization in the Archdiocese of Detroit and beyond.
View the talks below and
download the conference packet here.
Keynote Speeches
Author, retreat leader, speaker, and Director of Parish Life & Evangelization for the Diocese of Green Bay Julianne Stanz presented the keynote speeches for this year's Parish Day of Renewal. View her talks at learn.egwdetroit.org and download her presentations and resources here :
Sow: Prayer in the Life of Community
Grow: Community in the Life of a Disciple
Go: Engaging Disciples in Building Community
Archbishop Vigneron's Address
A Year of Scripture and Small Groups
Speaker: Sean Calvin, Coordinator of Ministerial Certification and Fr. Steve Pullis, Director of Evangelization and Missionary Discipleship
At the virtual 2020 Parish Day of Renewal, the Department of Evangelization and Missionary Discipleship invited parishes to engage in the year of "Grow" by taking on a challenge of reading and reflecting on Scripture either individually or in a small group.
The Detroit Model of Evangelization Course Launch
Speaker: Anita Houghton, Associate Director of Evangelization
At the virtual 2020 Parish Day of Renewal, the Department of Evangelization and Missionary Discipleship launched The Detroit Model of Evangelization Course. Anita Houghton, the Associate Director of Evangelization for the Archdiocese of Detroit explains how the free online course can assist parishes in being more effective in their evangelization efforts and where to access the new resource.
