The goal of the "E-Cat" Encounter Catechesis sections of this website is to provide a relevant and timely resource for all "essential personnel" dedicated to raising our Preschool through 6th grade children in the Catholic faith. Dictionaries define the word "essential" as "absolutely important" or "extremely important." Undoubtedly, "essential personnel" are those individuals without whom the SJN Religious Formation Team cannot operate effectively. 

As a parent, grandparent, aunt/uncle, brother/sister, neighbor, catechist, potential catechist, mentor, or  someone who desires to lead our young people ​into a life-changing encounter with Jesus Christ and form them into joyful missionary disciples, have you ever thought of yourself as "essential personnel" leading our young people into a life-changing encounter with Jesus Christ and forming them into joyful missionary disciples?

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The Call to Catechetical Leadership: Discerning the path of growth into a new role
     Every so often a major snowstorm here in Michigan, we hear on the news that all but "essential personnel" are asked to stay at home and off the roads so that road crews and emergency vehicles can work unimpeded. Dictionaries define the word "essential" as "absolutely necessary" or "extremely important." Essential personnel are those individuals without whom an organization cannot operate effectively.

As a parent, grandparent, aunt/uncle, brother/sister, neighbor, catechist, potential catechist, mentor, or  someone who desires to have our young people experience ​into a life-changing encounter with Jesus Christ and become joyful missionary disciples, have you ever thought of yourself as "essential personnel?" Th. In the Church does. In the National Directory for Catechesis, we read:
​"The service of catechists to God and to the Church is truly irreplaceable. No catechetical materials, resources, or tools -- no matter how excellent -- can replace the catechist" (NDC, 66).

So whoever is in Christ is a new creation: the old things have passed away; behold, new things have come.
And all this is from God, who has reconciled us to himself through Christ and given us the ministry of reconciliation, namely, God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting their trespasses
against them and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. So we are ambassadors for Christ, as if
​God were appealing through us. (2 Corinthians 5:17-20)

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