Catholic Evangelization Training Center

The Catholic Evangelization Training Center (CETC), located in the Archdiocese of Denver, was founded in 1983 by the Sisters of the New Covenant, Inc. a Private Association of the Christian Faithful.

Evangelization, spreading the Good News of Jesus Christ, is a new challenge for our Catholic people today. The CETC is a valiant attempt to help you meet this challenge. Its purpose is twofold:

1. To facilitate personal conversion.
2. To equip individual Catholic men and women with a practical "know how" approach to evangelization with an emphasis on one-to-one relationships.

It is out of the deep conviction that each of us can only give what we ourselves have, that the CETC has taken a particular approach in its training for the NEW evangelization.

What our Catholic people need is a deep personal relationship with Jesus and the desire and ability to share Him with others. For our people to be evangelizers, they need to deepen their relationship with the Lord and their life in the Spirit.

From the Bible, we see the Master's plan and strategy.

First, He selected a few.

• developed friendship with them,
• evangelized them,
• trained them,
• sent them out, and then
• supervised them.

Lastly,

• He entrusted to them the mission that He Himself had undertaken, and then empowered them to carry it out effectively through the power of the Holy Spirit (Acts 1:8).

The online ACTS II Evangelization Training is an attempt to do the same.


By discovering

• the richness of the Good News of Jesus Christ and personal conversion.

By learning how

• to give the Gospel Proclamation.
• to express your own personal witness to the Lord Jesus simply and directly.
• to minister to all who are in need of evangelization: your family, friends, strangers, the alienated/inactive Catholic, the unchurched.

The ACTS II Evangelization Training online enables the trainee to acquire the tools and skills of how to share one's faith based on the Scriptures; how to talk about Jesus without turning people off and doing this in accord with the Catholic tradition. How we, as Catholics, approach the Scriptures, how the Bible came to be, and much more; giving and receiving support, encouragement and nurturing within the small groups that form within the NEW Evangelization training; growing in one's relationship with the Lord as one progresses in the training; studying some of the Church documents and the R.C.I.A.