February 2, 2012

Dear friends in Christ,

We are less than a week away from our national conference (Feb 8-10) at St. Louis parish in Clarksville, MD. Our article "St. Louis Parish to host ChristLife conference on evangelization" appeared in the latest edition of The Catholic Review.

Will you join us in praying for the conference? Can you commit in a concrete way to praying for us next week? Email us, and let us know!

At this point we have over 40 participants from more than 15 parishes and ministries across the country and overseas. Please pray for traveling mercies and for open hearts and minds to the Holy Spirit!

As we prepare for the conference, dozens of parish communities across the U.S. and in Slovakia are running
the ChristLife process. In addition, the first Discovering Christ course in Canada was completed! The course was recently featured in the article "Maple Ridge 'Discovering Christ' over dinner" in The B.C. Catholic.

Finally, a few updates on our work with young adults. First, the ChristLife young adult community will begin
Freedom to Love, a 5-week series exploring Pope John Paul II’s theology of the body, on Wednesday, February 15. Please spread the word! Second, the young adult community will be helping run the Discovering Christ series on the
UMBC campus, beginning Sunday, February 26. Please pray for us!

Your brother in Christ,
Pete Ascosi
Assistant Director