Catholic Evangelization Outreach: Catholic Witness Stories

The Fall and the Call

From his immigrant roots in Philadelphia, Tom Keating was raised Catholic. Tom shares after falling away as a young adult how he rediscovered his faith that eventually led him into a leadership role in Catholic education.  Mr. Keating is the principal of Xavier Catholic High School in Cedar Rapids. 

From Judaism to Catholicism

Joan Hackbarth was raised in a faith-filled Jewish home. She was introduced to the Catholic faith by her husband, Dan. After the death of her daughter, Rebecca, she encountered Jesus through their church community and God continued to reveal Himself to her through many other life challenges. 

Marriage is not a 50/50 proposition: It is 100/100!

Marriage is not easy. Actually, it can be very hard. Dave and Cindy Glynn’s faith helped them through the ups and downs of their marriage. They shared their story and how God is the key to this Sacrament

God's Whispers

Mike Alt was very busy with work and life in general, but not hearing the whispers of God. Mike never left the church…just wandered with a shallow faith with little direction until some of life’s challenges opened his ears and heart and pointed him to true North. Hear how that call at 2:00 a.m. changed a life. God speaks in whispers. Are we listening?

Finding Truth in an Unexpected Place

Matt Selby grew up in a faith-filled home. He learned to love God and make his faith a priority at an early age. During college he decided to become a pastor. While serving as a missionary in the Middle East he encountered the truth, beauty and goodness in the Catholic church and his path was changed. His faith was taken to a new depth in a place he never expected: the Catholic church. Listen to his personal witness of how God is present in his life.

A View of God through the hearts of Teenagers

Hear how three teens from St. Joseph’s Parish began their connection with the movement of the Holy Spirit in their lives. So many messages are being sent to our young people today. Living a life in relationship with God is not prevalent in those messages. 

Intentional Faith

Archbishop Michael O. Jackels gave his personal witness to an overflow crowd at St. Matthew church on Feb. 10, 2014. He tells us that he had begun studying Buddhism and was washing dishes at his job at a country club when an encounter with a Protestant co-worker helped put him on the road to having what he called “intentional” faith

Surrounded by the Light of Christ

Invited on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 2009, Diana Richardson expected the trip to be a wonderful site seeing tour of the historical sites in the bible. God had other things in mind however. Her visit to Mt. Tabor, the Mount of Transfiguration, would trigger a series of supernatural life changing events that would transform her faith and her life forever and bring her to a new understanding and appreciation of the Sacraments of the Catholic Church.

Do We See God in Everything and Everyone?

Jacob Stewart was introduced to the power of the Holy Spirit at a Healing Mass. The amazing healings he saw changed his life at the early age of 13. Hear Jacob’s personal witness, “Believing is Seeing” at the first CEO gathering on the Mt. Mercy University campus.

The Door to my Soul was Opened

Michael DeClerck turned to God while still in grade school in a most unusual way. Hear what led him to the Catholic faith as a freshman college student. While sitting in the back pew, trying not to be noticed as a non-Catholic, he had an amazing encounter with Christ.