Creating Small Faith Communities

This is the story of a pastor's vision of church and a parish's journey to renewal. Father Art Baranowski brought the church into the homes of his people by restructuring his parish into Small Church Communities. The people of his parish do not just go to church, they are the church.

His story can become your story. He says: I believe that our deliberate pastoral attempt to bring parishioners together into small groups can serve as a model for any parish, for all parishes. This book is an effort to share the vision which inspired us as well as the nuts and bolts of how we did what we did.

Church leaders say the time has come to renew Catholic life through the faith and love discovered in the small group experience.