| How does a child grow up Catholic? Well, one thing we know for sure is that Growing up Catholic cannot be the outcome of a few weeks of preparation for the sacraments! It takes an entire childhood - steeped in Catholic life, to reach adulthood as a well-formed Catholic. We know from studies that most active adult Catholics today were formed in faith in their household. Providing the support for this isn't as difficult as it sounds! Catholic parents need only a small amount of help to do this - with the support of parish leaders and staff. Catholic parents - including those married to people of other faiths - want to help their kids grow up Catholic! As you'll see when you look through these materials, Growing Up Catholic is a formation process which begins at baptism and results in adult Catholics of mature faith. It's "lifelong." Growing Up Catholic is a user-friendly resource for Sacramental Formation that webs into daily life and lasts a lifetime! This web site and these resources are your tools to assist parents in this process. You're gonna love the cost, the ease, and the way your parents respond. To see more features, click here. |
| Dear Father, We welcome to Growing Up Catholic. We are the Team which provides support for lifelong faith formation through the web site known as PastoralPlanning.com. We are committed to supporting you and we share with you the hard work and great joys of parish ministry. We know how difficult it can be to find and train good leaders, how difficult to prepare catechists. If you're the pastor of a group of parishes all clustered together under your leadership, then your time is limited and you depend on those all-important volunteers to assist you. We know it can be very frustrating to bring parents into the learning circle of the parish. But you know, Father, as well as we do that without those parents, we cannot succeed in forming the faith of their kids. It's that simple. Every year we repeat what we did last year, hoping for better results. But some of the approaches we're currently using, we know, just don't work. In Sacrament Prep, for example, what we do does not succeed in deepening the faith of the parents. To see why we believe that, click here. And that's where we come in. Growing Up Catholic is a carefully tested and well-crafted formation process designed for use within the parish or in home schooling. It provides the immediate preparation for First Reconciliation, Confirmation-in-restored-order, and First Communion. But it does far more than merely prepare a child for these sacraments. It also prepares children and their parents for a lifelong journey of faith as Catholics. And it does so in a way that is enjoyable, easy to do, and powerfully effective. To see more features, click here. When you buy Growing Up Catholic from us, you get us with it. Your catechists will be thrilled because this is so easy to use. You'll save tons of money because our cost is so low. But most of all, you'll know that those parents are being coached to form their own kids. Growing Up Catholic has a lot of features and benefits. To read a little about the three key elements, go here. To talk to us, simply call us at 612.220.6943 or click here to write to us. For a simple order form, easy to use, click here. And to see the Guide for Pastors & Liturgical Leaders which is part of the program, click here. We know you're busy and we don't want to take more of your time. But thanks for working with us, and thanks for joining with all the parishes using Growing Up Catholic, coaching parents to form their own kids. Thank you for everything you do for your parish! You're the key link for those parents. You're the one to whom people turn in their hours of need. So much of your ministry is unseen by anyone, but Father, we are grateful! With all good wishes and blessings, Bill Huebsch PastoralPlanning.com |
| What does it take to help a child grow up Catholic? Engaged parents + The Right Resource + Parish Help = Fabulous Results! |
| Kids love Growing Up Catholic! It's actually fun to use! See a Sample. |
| Growing Up Catholic helps parents form their own kids! Which every parent really wants to do but most don't know how! See a sample. |
| Parish leaders: Growing Up Catholic is a dream come true! You get everything you need - and it's all electronic. It is sent to you via postal mail on a CD. It makes life easy for your catechists! Go to the Leader Pages |
| For ordering information, click here. To see more features, click here. |
| The Growing Up Catholic Philosophy The faith formation of every child is found in the faith of the parents. We must coach the parents to form their own children in order to have formation that lasts a lifetime. By forming their own children, the parents themselves are formed more deeply in their own faith. We know that almost every active adult Catholic today is active because his or her parents had faith. Their faith did not come from a textbook, no matter how excellent it may have been. So we must shift our focus from placing everything in the hands of trained catechists to a real partnership between parish and household. That partnership needs resources. Growing Up Catholic is that resource and it is truly fantastic. No matter how well we may do with teachers and catechists (with the parents absent from the process) if the child goes home to a household that is lacking in faith, that child will - in the end - be formed by that household. Why not coach the household into greater faith? |
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| The Pastor plays the role of "holy order maker" in the parish. The way in which you empower your leaders creates the environment in which faith can grow. Thank You! |
| Questions? Use the Growing Up Catholic Hotline: 612-220-6943 8 AM to 4 PM CST, Monday through Friday |