Not Alone on the Journey: A Story from New Zealand
A year ago Father Sherwin’s blood pressure was unstable. Within 5 weeks he had lost a significant amount of weight. Then an ECG showed that he had had a minor heart attack. Next, his childhood asthma came back, and he struggled with diverticulitis. A diagnostic journey began as he was sent from one specialist to the next, through test after test.
All of this happened within a year of Father Sherwin becoming the new Pastor of St. Mark Catholic Mission Parish in Pakuranga, New Zealand. “This is where Divine Renovation came in,” he says.
The Parishioners of Springfield – A Testimony of Parish Renewal
Fr. Philip Conner’s Story – A Testimony of Parish Renewal
For the last 6 years Father Phillip Conner has been the parish priest at St. Joseph’s in Lancaster, UK. Watch how a deep desire to evangelize his community led him to focus on renewal and change the parish culture.
At the Door: A Story from New Zealand
Emily Sit would define herself as a door stop.
From the function of the pews to the beauty of the stained-glass windows, the church building is a metaphor for the diversity of the gifts of the people that make it up; the people who transform it from a building to the Church. Just as each support beam and every floorboard are needed for the building to be whole, so too, the Church: people individually gifted, collectively called.
And Emily is a door stop.
