Adult Faith Formation, Outreach Ministries and Pastoral Care to the Sick and Bereaved.

Lifelong Faith, outreach ministries, RCIA and Maturing Adult Ministry coordinating formation and training programs for leaders.

Lifelong Faith, outreach ministries, RCIA and Maturing Adult Ministry coordinating formation and training programs for leaders.

Lifelong Faith Formation

Responsible for the direction, oversight, and coordination of parish educational and sacramental ministries and the planning, development and management of the parish faith formation programs.

Coordination of Archdiocesan Evangelization and Adult Faith Formation programs, Small Faith Communities and the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA).Responsible for introducing and conducting workshops on the United States Catechism for Adults. A new Immigration Education initiative was created. Welcome Home Catholics was introduced to reach out to inactive Catholics with Archdiocesan Guidelines for Returning Catholics being published,

Directing all diocesan religious education and faith formation programs. The Office for Religious Education certified five hundred twenty (520) Catechists since 1998 and implemented the Religious Education Institute for Continuing Catechetical Formation. Pulblished "A Catechist Companion, A Curriculum for Catechesis and Religious Education." General responsibilities included program development for DRE/CRE/Catechist, supervision and evaluation of the total religious education program and implementation of a sequential catechetical program for all age levels. Responsibilities also include directing adult faith formation programs, the R.C.I.A. and the Spring Hill Graduate Program in Theology.

Directed the Parish School of Religion and Adult Faith Formation programs, a parish of 2400 families. Responsibilities included religious education and sacramental preparation for grades K-8, recruiting, training and supervising 60 Catechists and coordinating R.C.I.A., (Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults). PSR enrollment, 737 students. Catechetical formation includes training and orientation, age-level curriculum meetings, annual retreat and Paul VI classes for catechist certification. Implemented parent groups, music program, celebration days, human sexuality course, Little Rock Scripture Study, PSR II for the mentally and physically challenged children and Vacation Bible School. I also worked with a regional group of Directors of Religious Education on Share the Spirit, a continuing adult religious education institute.