Southern Tier family of parishes go bananas at evangelization training

Three Catholic Sisters in the Foothills, also known as Family of Parishes #25, are in the process of doing an evangelization outreach entitled Make Every Person Count. This is a phone outreach to build community, answer questions, update registration, and reconnect with inactive Catholics.

On Saturday, June 14, Sister Louise Alff, OSF, did the training for the phone visitors. Part of the training was to role play the phone calls. Participants broke up into pairs and practiced calling one another. With the use of bananas as their phones, they followed the script given to them and practiced calling one another. A lot of laughter and conversation were heard in the room.

Each person will make 10 calls over a two-week period starting June 17. They have 30 volunteers from the three parishes: Holy Name of Mary, Ellicottville; Our Lady of Peace, Salamanca; and St. Philomena, Franklinville. A total of 300 parishioners will be contacted.