Religious Education > Training for Parish Adult Faith Formation Teams

The Pastoral Plan for Adult Faith Formation, Our Hearts Were Burning Within Us, a document published by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, provides a vision for adult faith formation for the parishes and dioceses of the United States. 

The Religious Education Office offers a series of workshops as a resource to help implement the plan.  The goal is to build parish adult faith formation teams who afterwards would return to their parishes to implement the plan. 

Pastors, Directors of Religious Education, Adult Religious Educators, Parish Council Representatives and Pastoral Ministers and other interested adults would be viable candidates for participation. 

The facilitator for this series of workshops would normally be a diocesan staff person or parish adult religious education professional who has attended a training session.

The goals of the workshops are as follows:

• to introduce the Pastoral Plan for Adult Faith Formation to the participants,

• to motivate participants to increase their commitment to adult faith formation,

• to educate participants to the various principles and goals of adult faith formation,

• to help participants to assess the present status of adult faith formation in their parish

• to enable participants to make decisions regarding the specific strategies that would enable their parish to strengthen its program for adult faith formation

• to create a network of adult religious educators among the parishes who can support and resource one another

• to create parish teams with the resources to build a stronger adult faith formation program

Contact the Religious Education office if your parish is interested in this process.