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As fundamental preparation for evangelization, be sure you're an authentic Catholic Christian. Remain faithful to even the smallest things that God has called you to in your life. Then you'll be ready when the Lord calls you to share the Gospel.

One of our biggest concerns when holding a Light of the World Retreat is whether we can get the attendance we're looking for. So here are some helpful tips to get more people on your retreat... and what to do if you're having trouble.

You may be tempted to feel like only certain types of "special" Catholics are able to evangelize. But the Lord uses our own personalities and temperaments to help lead people to Himself. Turns out you can evangelize after all. It just looks different.

Your committees don't come up with the mission of your parish. God already set that in stone long ago. Every parish's mission is and ever will be to bring souls back to Himself.

Whether it's justified fears or irrational ones, we Catholics are usually just not used to evangelizing. It's hard. So where do we start?

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The driving force behind all our parish evangelization efforts should be a personal encounter with Jesus Christ. The Light of the World Retreat provides an encounter "engine" that powers the rest of a parish evangelization process.

Fr. Bakkelund has a few personal evangelization tricks up his sleeve. They may seem a little unconventional, but evangelization usually feels awkward at first, no matter how you do it.

Before we attempt to plant the Gospel, we need to prepare the soil. That's where pre-evangelization comes in. Our parishes need to seek out opportunities for pre-evangelization if we hope to invite each of the people in our community into a relationship with the Lord.

Many of us Catholics are passionate about our faith, but struggle to evangelize because we don't feel qualified. We assume there's always someone better and smarter who can share their faith with friends and family. But there's a very specific and unique reason the Lord chose to make you His disciple and calls you to evangelize.

We can't expect to see renewal in our parishes if we continue to add a myriad of disconnected programs. We need to be more intentional and each parish develop an evangelization strategy based on an effective evangelization process.