Becoming an evangelizing parish community to new homeowners in your area can be very easy. Using a neighborhood member outreach service, such as the one described below can help you identify and target new neighbors in your parish boundaries with information about your local Catholic parish.

Once you have the listings, a simple parish welcome card or flyer could be sent to these new homeowners.  Flyers could contain information about your parish mission, upcoming activities, resources, formation programs, parish phone contacts, and daily-weekend liturgy schedules.  What a wonderful evangelizing communication tool! Perhaps such a simple gesture from your parish will open a welcoming door to a practicing, returning, or new Catholic in your local area.  The PNCEA New Movers program offers the lists, strategies for evangelizing in ways sensitive to non-Catholics who already have a church and more. There is a fee for this service, however, there is no contract to sign.  This could be a great way to reach out and welcome the Catholic, or potential Catholic, in your neighborhood. 

PNCEA New Movers Mailing List 

This a program from the Paulist National Catholic Evangelization Association specifically targeted for Catholic parishes. Sample mailings and suggested approaches to evangelization provided on the website are very useful. A parish can participate in two easy steps: