CatholiCity Podcasts The Mary Foundation

Today’s episode features Keith Nester, a former protestant pastor and youth pastor with more than 20 years in full-time ministry. In 2017, Keith converted to the Catholicism. He has since authored two books: The Convert’s Guide to Roman Catholicism: Your First Year in the Church along with Unpacking the Mysteries of the Rosary. He also hosts a daily livestream of the rosary at 5:00pm central, which has occurred without fail since 2020 and is now called the Rosary Crew. He also shares lessons on his YouTube channel and podcast.
We discuss how the Mary Foundation ended up helping edit his latest book, the beginnings of the Rosary Crew, why he wrote another book after thinking never again, the power of the Rosary, Mary, and lessons that Catholics could learn from a former protestant pastor.
You can find Keith on his website, Down2EarthMinistry.Org, and on the Rosary Crew Youtube Channel.
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To order powerful tools for evangelization for your family, friends, and parish, head to the Mary Foundation website at CatholiCity.com.
 

Today’s episode features Gabe Kessler, president of the Cleveland Chapter of Young Catholic Professionals (YCP). Gabe is a graduate of Ave Maria University, where he lived in an intentional catholic “household”, and he is now a husband, a father, and a business development professional. He got involved with YCP as a way to give back and be connected to Catholic community and ministry.
We discuss his background and path into ministry, what YCP is and how it’s structured, the human dynamics of social-professional gatherings, Gabe’s mindset on growth and his strategies to achieve it, the future of Young Adult ministry, and more.
You can find Young Catholic Professionals online here and on Facebook and Instagram.
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To order powerful tools for evangelization for your family, friends, and parish, head to the Mary Foundation website at CatholiCity.com.

Today’s episode features Joe Hopkins, the Director of Adult Formation for Mission in the Diocese of Nottingham, England. Joe spent two years in university ministry, then eight years as a high school chaplain before taking on his current position, which includes the Christus Vivat young adult ministry among many other responsibilities.
We discuss the challenge of “restarting” after pandemic lockdowns, Joe’s role doing “spade work” as he calls it—that is, the logistical leg work required to make anything happen—the four critical ingredients in the recipe for starting a new Young adult group, the importance of providing community opportunities for people after they "age out” of young adult years, and more.
You can find Christus Vivat online here and on Facebook and Instagram.
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To order powerful tools for evangelization for your family, friends, and parish, head to the Mary Foundation website at CatholiCity.com.

Today’s episode features Robert Wines, leader of The Ark young adult group at St. Ann parish in Washington, DC. He’s been running it for nearly two years while maintaining a full-time 9-5 Job. After college and a year of service with the Saint John Society, Robert and a close friend wanted to get into young adult ministry in a big way. 
We discuss the founding of the group, how the Ark leverages the Alpha program, the “Call, Form, Send” mantra of the Saint John Society, the benefits of a set repeating curriculum and small groups, and the importance of keeping God as the center no matter what. 
You can find Ark online at thearkdc.org and on Instagram.
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To order powerful tools for evangelization for your family, friends, and parish, head to the Mary Foundation website at CatholiCity.com.

Today’s episode features Jose Pulido, professional evangelization coach and founder of At The Service. He has coached at universities, Fortune 500 companies, and non-profits. He received an MBA from Yale University and spent over a decade practicing what he calls “ultra-difficult evangelization”. 
We discuss how Jose effectively invented a new niche for “coaching” evangelization, the problem of poor execution of the “traditional methods” of evangelization,  the importance of practical, learnable skills, Jose’s novel approach of combining modern “behavioral economics” with the beautiful depth of scripture, and more. 
By the end of this episode, you’ll have an idea of what it means to Talk Like Mary, Dream Like Saint Joseph, and Make Things New Like Jesus.
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To order powerful tools for evangelization for your family, friends, and parish, head to the Mary Foundation website at CatholiCity.com.
 

Today’s episode features Kenn Demoll, the director of the Youth and Young Adult ministry at St. John Catholic Church in Westminster, Maryland. He is a convert to the faith, and was called to ministry after college while thinking about becoming a police officer.
We discuss the challenge of “restarting” a young adult ministry, drawing in and retaining people, the importance of relationships, the grand vision of young adult ministry, how to help a priest get a ministry going, how to avoid the atmosphere of a desperate social/singles club, and more.
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To order powerful tools for evangelization for your family, friends, and parish, head to the Mary Foundation website at CatholiCity.com.
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Time Stamps
(00:01:15) Intro and Conversion
(00:06:36) Inheriting and Restarting a YA Group
(00:08:46) Drawing and Retaining People
(00:20:51) Why are Relationships So Important?
(00:26:46) The Grand Vision of Young Adult Ministry
(00:33:53) How to Help a Priest Start a YA Ministry
(00:40:01) Avoiding the Desperate Social/Singles Club
(00:51:44) The Hard One-On-One Conversations
(00:57:50) “Thank God I Did This”
(01:00:53) “I Wish I Hadn’t Done This”
(01:08:26) Be Bold