2016 HORIZON No. 4 Fall -- Communications | Volunteers

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2016 HORIZON No. 4 Fall digital edition and pdf -- Communications | Volunteers

Editor's note

Build relationships

By Carol Schuck Scheiber

Once people meet you and your community members, they can begin to understand who you are; they have a chance to sense your charism and experience the joy of religious life. Read more...

Updates

NRVC seeks executive director; religious at World Youth Day; brothers raise profile; and more

The National Religious Vocation Conference is seeking applications through December 15, 2016 for a new executive director, due to the September departure of its longtime leader Brother Paul Bednarczyk, C.S.C. Read more...

Create a vocation communications plan

By Cheryl Aughton

A strategic plan for communications can help vocation directors be more focused and effective. Read more...

Develop high-quality social media content

By Fr. Larry Rice C.S.P.

High-quality content on your social media sites is key to fulfilling your goals for those sites. Read more...

From Facebook to face time

By Siobhán O’Neill Meluso

Use social media to engage with your vocation contacts authentically and to encourage them to meet you face-to-face. Read more...

The vocation impact of full-time volunteering

By Carol Lackie and Katie Mulembe

Faith-based, full-time volunteering encourages vocation discernment and allows religious communities to build relationships with volunteers. Read more...

How we nurture vocations among our volunteer teachers

By Fr. Lou DelFra C.S.C.

The Alliance for Catholic Education never intended to be a vocation incubator, but over the years it has embraced a strong culture of vocation. Read more...

Vocation options

HORIZON presents vocation alternatives beyond religious life and diocesan priesthood. Perhaps one is right for a discerner you know. Read more...

Feed your spirit

Hearing the voice of the beloved

By Father Joseph Nassal C.PP.S.

One of the challenges in inviting others into discernment to listen to the voice of the Beloved is the cacophony of other voices clamoring for attention. Read more...

Book notes: Praise for a God at home in the world

By Daniel Grippo

The author of Grounded has her finger on the pulse of spiritual life today, and anyone who wishes to understand which way the Spirit is blowing should pick this book up. Read more...

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