EnCouragING Faith and BuildING Fervency

GIFT focuses on two faith pillars:

1) GIFT:  Everything and everyone are GIFTs from God, and we should receive these GIFTs in humble appreciation; reciprocate to God for all His marvelous GIFTs by allowing God to transform our lives in accordance with His will; and reGIFT  the  GIFTs we've received to transform lives and communities

 2) TRANSFORMATION:  We're called to be transformed by the renewing of our minds and to become the image of Christ, so we'll live and love more like Jesus.

GIFT has been developing and sharing innovative faith-based content to evangelize, disciple and build fervency, including:

- Document on the two faith pillars of GIFT and Transformation which the Vatican's Laudato Si Action Platform published as a Resource on 1/2023

- Scripture Artwork conveying key Bible teaching developed using NIV text, which has also received an Imprimatur.  Fulfils the goals of the Synod on the New Evangelization which proclaimed, “A new evangelization means that the Church must convincingly sustain her efforts at uniting all Christians in a common witness to the world of the prophetic and ‘transforming power’ of the Gospel message.“

- Celebrate Our Creator Curriculum to address a foundational aspect of faith -- realizing that this world and everything in it didn't just happen but were provided as a GIFT from God

- "Sheep & Goat Go to the Ice Cream Parlor" children's book rendering the Parable of the Final Judgment in Matthew 25  -- what Pope Francis indicated was "the one thing" we must learn if we could only learn one thing -- which was covered on Catholic TV and endorsed by www.catholicmom.com. Significantly, Mr. Rogers, of children's TV fame, a trusted friend to many of us, and a Presbyterian Minister asked his wife on his deathbed, "Am I a Sheep?" referring to the same message this book conveys.

- Spiritual Transformation Path explaining the Parable of the Sower -- which GIFT was encouraged to develop by the USCCB Secretariat of Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs -- that addresses the need for our hearts to be humble before God, realizing everything is a GIFT from Him, in order for the Word/Seed of God to reach good soil  (Note: the word for good soil is Humus, which the root word of Humility.)
- Spiritual Transformation Guide capturing what key milestones and metrics would constitute our transforming to live and love more like Christ, which has received an Imprimatur

- "GLOW" ministry: conveying the need for Godliness, Love, Obedience & Witness.