The Diocesan Evangelisation Team is a network of people who are committed to evangelisation and are conscious of their own need to be constantly evangelised. They, in collaboration with others, offer opportunities for evangelisation, training and support to parishes, groups and individuals in order to encourage evangelisation.
The photo opposite shows Bishop Peter Doyle with some members of the Diocesan Evangelisation Team at their formal commissioning at the Cathedral, 25th January 2009. Click here for the text of Alex Heath's talk at that Service.
The following members currently serve on the Diocesan Evangelisation Team:
Teresa Brown
Alex Heath (Chair),
Frances Hooper
Grainne Morris
Fr. Simon Penhalagan
Gerard Pomfret
Mags Reilly
Fr Andrew Richardson
David Smith
Matthew van Duyvenbode
Henry Worthy (Secretary)
The Diocesan Evangelisation Team seeks to serve the evangelising mission of the Diocese by making a contribution in three main areas;
Evangelising, Forming Evangelisers and Forming Formers.
For more information on each of these areas of activity please follow the relevant sections on this website or see the Diocesan Evangelisation Team Vision Statement which you can download from here (search Evangelisation in the Categories menu).
Below is a list of some of the specific services and events that are offered by the team:
- An annual Diocesan Evangelisation Day on different aspects of evangelisation.
- Consultancy, offering advice and support in order to help parishes and groups develop a strategy for evangelisation.
- Training Courses in Evangelisation.
- Encouraging the formation and resourcing of Parish or Area Evangelisation teams and local, practical initiatives for evangelisation. Wherever possible seeking to work ecumenically.
- Partnering and networking with groups directly involved in mission.
- Raising the profile and developing understanding of evangelisation as well as publicising evangelisation initiatives by means of Diocesan communications.
- Supporting and encouraging those already involved in evangelisation in the Diocese by developing a supportive network and publicising the good work that is already going on.
- To explore, with others, the role and benefits of small communities in the life of the Church as a means of evangelisation.
- To provide a forum for ongoing reflection on evangelisation in our Diocese, in our culture(s) and in our time, and to explore how, together with others, we can best respond to that call. In particular to explore the ongoing implications the Church’s option for the poor raises for our evangelisation.