069: Door to Door with Sent Evangelization

Do Catholics go door to door? Should they? Eric sits down with Austin Habash, founder of Sent Evangelization - a ministry that helps pastors and parishes reach out to those within their parish boundaries.

Sent Evangelization:
Here to serve.

It began in 2016 on a whiteboard at the Saint John Paul II Center for the New Evangelization in Denver, where a visiting priest drew a large rectangular border with a church at its center and some little houses drawn around it. “This,” he said, “is the parish territory, of which all the souls living within it the parish is responsible for.”

Then drawing a much smaller circle around the church, he said, “And this is how many people within that territory who actually exist within the Church’s walls as Catholics. In the Archdiocese of Denver that’s only about 15%, so what are we doing for everyone else?”

No one had an answer, because to be honest, many of us had never heard the question before. So after a long pause he said, “Well, we just go knock on their door.” Sent Evangelization was born.

Today, out of its headquarters in Denver, Colorado, Sent coordinators travel across the country equipping Catholic parishes with the tools they need to be ""Sent."" And sent not to foreign missions but to the vast majority of souls who live within their parish boundary yet are outside its spiritual walls.