Site Map for www.christmascarolfestival.com

Index Links to videos: of St. David's, new Festival Intro 2010, hello Mary

  prayer (and poem) before a manger

Comesing  list of 2009 festival contacts and links to new videos: Bordentown, Trenton,

  Charlestown WVA

FAQ           added pastoral assumptions

Shopper's prayer        pray with Christmas shopping lists

Guidebook  preface and sample story

Motionswasbabydiagram of motions for children's song

Nick play   How St. Nick Became Santa

Registrationcurrent training or online evangelization courses by the Bouchers (PNCEA)

Singingangels     CD contents, video links: St David's, Trenton, Bordentown, Charlestown WVA

list 8 new audio files also

Songsheethandouts    Christmas carols that can be printed (from the public domain)

Wasababy    lyrics (sheet music is unavailable)

xmaswitnessexercise for witnessing with carols before and during the festival

Xmasfestival vision of the festival, bright ideas

        under repair --information follows on this page

                      

                 The Christmas Carol Festival project assumes the following goals:

1. Invites people to faith and deeper conversion through the singing of

Christ-centered carols

2. Promotes faith sharing in one-to-one, small group and large group

settings

3. Promotes faith sharing and intercessory prayer as normal parts of

parish life and as the foundation for all other forms of evangelization

4. Uses a seasonal approach that can supplement what is happening in

groups and ministries

5. Reaches out to unchurched, and marginal or inactive Catholics

(This the majority of people who identify themselves as Catholic)

6. Implements the goals of Go and Make Disciples: A National Plan

& Strategy for Catholic Evangelization in the United States

(paraphrased below) http://www.usccb.org/evangelization/goandmake/index.shtml

Goal I:    To encourage an active faith & faith sharing among Catholics.

Goal II:   To invite believers and nonbelievers to join us in a personal & communal love for Jesus Christ,

    Savior and Lord

Goal III:  To foster the transformation of our culture, and all of its institution, in the light of the Good

     News, especially by promoting the dignity of the person, the common good & stewardship of the creation.

                    The Christmas Carol Festival itself is part of an evangelization project

with three phases over six months

Preparation      Proclamation     Preservation

  Training for ministriesChristmas Carol Festival      Follow-up faith sharing event

  Use of a steering committee     Gospel message thru carols (Jesus in January event)

  Parish-wide prayer   Faith sharing witnessesE-mail & postal contacts

  One-to-one invitations       Invitate to follow-up & parish Ongoing sharing groups

  Evangelization workshop   Act out the Christmas story         Catholic outreach programs                                                                                     

                                          For parish leaders' experiences carol festivals  

For training exercise one or for witness training

an endorsement

"The work that John and Therese Boucher are doing is essential to meeting people where they are for Christ.  Christmas Carols are a common link between the believer and the seeker.  What better way to build community than to sing together and testify to the greatness of God.  I know we will see much fruit for God's kingdom with this labor."

                                                                           Bob Talmage-Co-Director, One Way UP Ministries