The Great Commission - Catholic efforts?

[Sawyer_Seeker]

Greetings,

This is my first post to the Catholic.com forums. I have become a recently listener to Catholic Answers Live, and have become incredibly fascinated with the historic Christian faith as preserved in tradition through the Roman Catholic Church.

A quick recap of my spiritual journey:

I was raised in Christian Science/Religious Science and various other ecclectic spiritualities including unitarianism. With the influence of my father, I also was influenced by fundemnetalist evangelical Christianity of the “pentecostal” or “charismatic” persuasion. At the age of fourteen, I joined the Mormon Church. At the age of 18, I left the Mormon church and returned to a traditional/orthodox view of Jesus Christ and had a profound conversion experience. I then studied ministry with a focus on world missions, but did not finish my studies due to a fragmentation in the organization I was a part of which was a result of moral failure in leadership.

I am now twenty-six years old, and work in Hotel management. I have just emerged from a season of studying various other world religions seriously including Islam and the Baha’i faith. During this time, I also began to seriously doubt the existence of God. About a year ago, I began the journey through daily repentance back into fellowship with Christ, and have been attending a fairly “balanced” evangelical church. I have also become very involved in a world missions organization that attempts to reach unreached people groups with the message of Christ.

Lately I have become convicted in my heart by the stability of doctrine and history which can be traced through the modern day Catholic church to the early apostles. I am in a place where I am even considering getting in touch with a local Priest in order to find out more about the faith.

My question for anyone is this: Does the Catholic church have any modern day missionary efforts which strive to reach the nearly 2.7 billion unreached people groups with the message of Christ’s atoning sacrifice?

I would be very curious in this answer before I begin any further deep investigation into the church.

God Bless -

Sawyer

 

[BryPGuy89]

Sawyer Seeker:

Greetings,

This is my first post to the Catholic.com forums. I have become a recently listener to Catholic Answers Live, and have become incredibly fascinated with the historic Christian faith as preserved in tradition through the Roman Catholic Church.

A quick recap of my spiritual journey:

I was raised in Christian Science/Religious Science and various other ecclectic spiritualities including unitarianism. With the influence of my father, I also was influenced by fundemnetalist evangelical Christianity of the “pentecostal” or “charismatic” persuasion. At the age of fourteen, I joined the Mormon Church. At the age of 18, I left the Mormon church and returned to a traditional/orthodox view of Jesus Christ and had a profound conversion experience. I then studied ministry with a focus on world missions, but did not finish my studies due to a fragmentation in the organization I was a part of which was a result of moral failure in leadership.

I am now twenty-six years old, and work in Hotel management. I have just emerged from a season of studying various other world religions seriously including Islam and the Baha’i faith. During this time, I also began to seriously doubt the existence of God. About a year ago, I began the journey through daily repentance back into fellowship with Christ, and have been attending a fairly “balanced” evangelical church. I have also become very involved in a world missions organization that attempts to reach unreached people groups with the message of Christ.

Lately I have become convicted in my heart by the stability of doctrine and history which can be traced through the modern day Catholic church to the early apostles. I am in a place where I am even considering getting in touch with a local Priest in order to find out more about the faith.

My question for anyone is this: Does the Catholic church have any modern day missionary efforts which strive to reach the nearly 2.7 billion unreached people groups with the message of Christ’s atoning sacrifice?

I would be very curious in this answer before I begin any further deep investigation into the church.

God Bless -

Sawyer

Quite a spiritual journy. My friend the Catholic Church has so many missionary and outreach programs that I couldn’t describe it to you. I would say that the Catholic Church is the biggest and most expanded organization in he world in aspects of helping and sharing the faith with others.

 

[Will_Pick]

BryPGuy89:

Quite a spiritual journy. My friend the Catholic Church has so many missionary and outreach programs that I couldn’t describe it to you. I would say that the Catholic Church is the biggest and most expanded organization in he world in aspects of helping and sharing the faith with others.

AMEN

 

[puzzleannie]

there are dozens, nay hundreds of religious orders dedicated to evangleization and to overseas and domestic missions, every diocese has missionaries and also an evangelization program. The Catholic Church has the most extensive and most successful missionary program in history.

 

[Della]

Welcome, Sawyer Seeker to the board and to inquiry into the Catholic Church! My own spiritual background is similar to yours except I never looked outside of established Christianity for answers to life’s mysteries. I too came to the conclusion that the Catholic Church was the Church of the 1st century that has existed from the time of Christ. There’s so much to learn in the Church of history, art, culture, and spirituality–it’s a real banquet!

An author who also was brought up Unitarian (in the early days of Unitarianism when it hadn’t yet embraced Wicca and every other such thing) was the wonderful author G. K. Chesterton. His book on St. Francis of Assisi (who traveled to the Holy Land in order to try to convert Muslims) is the best every written. Unfortunately, it’s not online, but several of his other writings are, including his classic defenses of Orthodoxy (traditional Christianity as opposed to modernism, etc.) and of Jesus as the center of history, The Everlasting Man. His own story of conversion is also there: The Catholic Church and Conversion. You can get 3 great works: St. Francis, St. Thomas Aquinas, and The Everlasting Man in one volume at Ignatius Press.

 

[henryl]

Dear Sawyer Seeker,
The Catholic Church has many different types of Missionaries around the world in different organizations. I volunteered a year to the Church through the Regnum Christi Movement. It was this year that changed my life and got me to where I am today. I have a close friend who became consecrated in the movement and is now in the phillipines. There are many opportunities out there if you research. Check out the website: regnumchristi.org The missionaries are called Co-Workers. The program I went through was a very extensive one. It is personal in the way that there was individual testing and discerning, and a lot of prayer to determine where each of us would be sent. I recommend you use google. I’m sure you would find something. God Bless you in your incredible journey, if I can help in any way, let me know.