"Let My People Come" in Catholic Post

The Catholic Post published an good article on the “Let My People Come” lecture series in the January 3rd edition. The article explains the concept behind the program and includes a detailed schedule for all the events occurring throughout the diocese. Here is a link to an online copy of the article.

Power Point Presentations

Some of the RDRE’s have developed a series of PowerPoint slides for the Office of Catechetics to assist DRE’s with tasks like running a First Communion Parent Meeting or teaching Creative Lesson Planning. These are designed to help DRE’s give catechist training, provide a bit of standardization across the diocese, assist DRE’s in performing common tasks. The people that developed these presentations are extremely experienced as catechists and DRE’s and have a wealth of information to share. This is a valuable resource. Again, see the letter on the front page of December’s Leaven for additional details.

I have many copies of these CD’s and can make more for anyone that wants them. There is no charge.

Here is a list of the presentations currently available:
Chastity
Christology
First Communion
First Reconciliation
Classroom Management
Lesson Planning
Parent Meetings
Confirmation
Text and Curriculum

“Let My People Come”

This is a series of lectures to be held throughout the diocese in the coming year.  There is a letter from Dr. Vincent McClean, the Director of Catechetics, on the front page of the December Leaven with additional details.

“Let My People Come“ is an initiative from the Office of Catechetics to offer continuing education for catechists and DRE’s in spiritual development and practical teaching skills. The plan, for now, is to offer one training lecture a month rotating around the  different regions of the diocese. Since there are six regions, that  means we in the Champaign/Danville region will have two training lectures in the coming year.

A schedule of lectures was published in the December Leaven but that schedule is wrong. It has a lecture happening here in February and in April. The February 25th date is correct but the April date is in error. Instead, there will be a training session in October....more on that below.

The February training lecture is on Lesson Planning. It will be at the Holy Cross Parish Center at 6:30 pm on Thursday February 25th. Alan Anderson, the RDRE for the Lasalle-Peru area, has put together a presentation for catechists and DRE’s. It has a dual purpose. It is primarily intended as a practical guide for catechists. However, it is also intended to show a DRE how to conduct training on lesson planning using the format that Alan has developed.

We will hand out an accompanying CD that contains the Power Point lecture Alan will be presenting. This way, a DRE attending this lecture will be able to give the training to his or her catechists in the future. The Office of Catechetics has developed several of these training lecture Power Point presentations on a free CD (see below).

The other training lecture on October 21st at 7:00 pm is not a lecture at all. It will be an Explanatory Mass at Holy Cross Church done by Bishop Jenky himself! I’ll have more details on that as we get closer to the date.

I could really use some help with hospitality and set up for the lecture on February 25th. Please consider helping out, and also please pass this along to all your catechists.