For adults of their 20s to 40s exploring religion or starting their non secular journey, Parramatta Diocese’s The FaithFeed affords a heat and welcoming place to begin. Supply: Catholic Outlook.
The FaithFeed creates area for open conversations about life, spirituality, and goal – grounded in authenticity and shared expertise. Greater than a ministry, it’s a motion of dialogue, encounter, and renewal.
“We wish to pitch it as a date night time or a TED Discuss meets a religion viewers,” mentioned Donnie Velasco, facilitator with the diocese’s Pastoral Formation – Mission Enhancement Workforce, which organises the occasions with the purpose of assembly individuals the place they’re at in life and religion.
The FaithFeed engages younger adults by means of dwell studio viewers periods that includes relatable storytellers – typically parishioners – who share on a regular basis religion tales.
“It’s within the ordinariness of those tales that others start to understand they’ll share theirs too,” Mr Velasco mentioned.
The FaithFeed extends its attain by means of its web site and social media platforms (Instagram, Fb and YouTube), sharing common tales to fulfill individuals wherever they’re.
After every occasion, the crew produces brief video packages with dialogue prompts, distributing them to the 45 parishes and 80 diocesan colleges to maintain the dialog going.
Established in 2017 to bridge rising disconnection between younger adults and Church life in Western Sydney, The FaithFeed affords a welcoming area the place questions are valued, tales matter and religion might be rediscovered personally and communally.
“We’ve engaged round 800 to 900 individuals face-to-face throughout Western Sydney by means of FaithFeed, however our attain is even larger on-line,” Mr Velasco mentioned.
The FaithFeed follows a three-step engagement course of: obtain, influence and identify.
“Contributors first obtain a narrative or expertise, then replicate on the way it impacts them – whether or not it challenges, conjures up, or uplifts – and at last specific that influence in their very own phrases,” Mr Velasco mentioned.
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Where storytelling, song and spirit connect (By Isabell Petrinic, Catholic Outlook)
