The Fruits from God  

Evangelist Grace Huang

     It had been three years since I came to Taichung Immaculate Conception Parish on Fuxing Road and started the "One-Brings-One Evangelization Prayer Group". The Prayer Group members are primarily parishioners.   Currently we have about 34 people attending the weekly gathering and about 55% of them are recently baptized.  We gather three to four times every month.  Among the 105 baptisms in the past three years, 72 of them, about 70% were invited by the Prayer Group members using the One-Brings-One method.  Praise the Lord for the members’ conversion experiences and their joyful and courageous testimonies of their stories of the evangelization and companionship through their one-brings-one, one-brings-five, or one-brings-six experiences.  Their friends, colleagues, or family members came to our catechism classes and successfully accepted God’s salvation.

The development of the "One-Bring-One Evangelization Prayer Group":
The goal of the "One-Brings-One Evangelization Prayer Group" is to evangelize  non-Catholics and lapsed Catholics cheerfully and with less stress. I started the first year with a group of five to twelve parishioners.  Through an "evangelization training", we prepare parishioners to be disciples who can actively evangelize and also support other parish evangelization ministries by prayer and action.

How to train parishioners to become "disciples who can actively evangelize":
In the process of training, combining theory and practice is the key to enable them to actively evangelize, therefore:
(1) The objectives of the first four months are: to enhance the parishioners' spiritual and faith life, and to develop an evangelization consciousness, so that they can make a long term commitment to participate in the "Evangelization Prayer Group", to begin doing One-Brings-One Evangelization, and to provide other services to the group and the Church.
(2) The objective of the next five months: to invite more Catholics to join the "Evangelization Prayer Group." The formation includes the  development of the Catholics’ identification with the group and the ability of gradually leading the group.
(3) During the first four months of the evangelization training, parishioners are invited to begin the One-Brings-One process: they began with praying for three to five non-Catholic candidates for one to three months.  Guided by the Holy Spirit, at the right moment, they invite the candidates to participate briefly in the Evangelization Prayer Groups and then join a Catechumens class.
(4) Objective in the following five months: the parishioners begin to lead the following sessions in the meetings. They begin to lead praise and worship, intercessory prayers, discussion and sharing about lecture topic, and life experiences sharing; they also enhance their sense of mission, participation, leadership, and ability to face a large crowd. Thank God who kindles the desire for evangelization, sustaining the enthusiasm and active participation in One-Brings-One evangelization. Thank God for blessing them with the good fruits of conversion to Christ and His Church.