Evaluation Form for Small Group Leaders

Arise Together in Christ: Session One Evaluation



1. What was your personal experience with Season One? What did you achieve in Season One? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
2. Now that you have completed Season One of Arise, please tell us how your group worked out. Do you know of any changes we should make to improve Arise in Season 2? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
3. Did your group perform or hear about an impressive act of faith? If so, what was it? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
4. What other suggestions do you have, if any. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
5. What would you do to get even more parishioners to participate in Arise Together In Christ? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

6. Was there a particular moment in any one of the sessions when you were keenly aware that God was present within your group? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

7. What did you like best/least? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Season II begins Monday Feb. 23, 2009
Please return this form to Joe DePalo at depalo@comcast.net

Te Deum

Joe DePalo is the coordinator of "sign ups." The following quote is from the email he sent this morning.

"I am much more comfortable tonight than I was last night! In fact, I am VERY happy. We still need to determine if a number of people will be participating in Season 2, However, with the new sign up sheets I got last night, overall we have about a 30% increase in participation over season 1! That is FANTASTIC! The best part is that this increase does not even include the approximately 60 or 70 10th & 11th grade CCD students that will participating in Season 2."

You are God: we praise you;
You are the Lord: we acclaim you;
You are the eternal Father:
All creation worships you.

To you all angels, all the powers of heaven,
Cherubim and Seraphim, sin in endless praise:
Holy, holy, holy, Lord, God of power and might,
Heaven and earth are full of your glory.

The glorious company of apostles praise you.
The noble fellowship of prophets praise you.
The white-robed army of martyrs praise you...

And I, and the Arise Team,
And the entire parish of St. Mary's,
Franklin, Massachusetts, praise,
Give thanks and glorify You

Arise Team Meeting

Last night, the Arise Team met. One thing we are planning is a celebration at the end of Session II. We're thinking an Easter Egg Hunt would be fun to do. What do you think? Any other ideas?

Arise Meeting on February 10, 2009

It's an open meeting. It will be in the rectory. Just ask. It will start at 7:15 PM.

The Agenda

I. Prayer
Arise Prayer
Faith Sharing
Mark 1: 40-45

II. Assessment
Where are we?

III. Needs

IV. Immediate Next Steps


V. Plans for Evaluations and Celebration

VI. Closing Prayer
Invitation to Closing Prayer
PrayerTime, Cycle B, p. 156

Second Page

Arise Advertisement from the Catholic Extension Family Appointment Calendar

The Pilot's Arise Ad

The last page of the Pilot has a full page beautiful poster of Arise Together in Christ Program. There's a picture of a family on a ski lift. And the grabber is the sentence: It might be the mountain-top experience you have been looking for!

I like their reasons:

Experience the new approach to Catholic spiritual renewal that is spreading across the Archdiocese of Boston.

Arise offers the opportunity for new friendships, stronger faith, and a deeper relationship with Christ and others through prayer and the Scriptures in a small group setting.

Small groups now forming for Lent.

Sign Up Sunday

Success! Everything went off without a hitch. Sign Ups were taken at all the Masses. Since the sessions don't start until February 22nd, we'll probably have a few people contacting us to join. That's all right. We're flexible and can accomodate anybody.

Anyone on team can sign you up, but the one in charge of sign ups and assigning people to groups is Joe DePalo. (508) 528-6609 DEPALO@comcast.net