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Sharing YOUR Faith Story: Interview with Nancy HC Ward

As Catholics, most of us have a difficult time sharing our faith story with others. Unlike our Protestant brothers and sisters, we have not been taught to evangelize. Nevertheless, people today are hungry to hear how God is working in and through others. There is a yearning for the truth and a longing for hope in our wounded world. But how can we help others if we cannot even share how God is working in our lives?

Today I would like to share a conversation I had with Nancy HC Ward, a Catholic convert, journalist, blogger and speaker who offers a solution to this dilemma. In her new DVD "Sharing YOUR Faith Story," she tells her own conversion story while coaching her viewers on how to share their stories.

Nancy, I have been enjoying your blog, JoyAlive.net for years. It is both uplifting and inspirational. Now, you have a wonderful new resource, a DVD, entitled “Sharing YOUR Faith Story.” I recently viewed your DVD and it is an excellent resource for evangelization! What motivated you to make this DVD?

Last year Tami Kiser brought together a group of 27 mostly women but a few men in the on-line Catholic Conference for Moms. Each of us recorded a video session. The idea was to provide encouragement to mothers as they watched the videos at home. I’d written about my conversion in bits and pieces on my blog, JoyAlive.net. In fact, conversion stories are an on-going theme of my blog. I wanted to encourage Catholics to share their stories. To do that, I had to share mine. For the Moms conference, I developed a workshop of three talks with a study guide on Sharing YOUR Faith Story. Then I created the DVD to make the workshop available to a wider audience.

Read the rest of the interview on CatholicFire.com