Hundredfold: A Guide to Parish Vocation Ministry

Hundredfold is designed for the ordinary Catholic who wants to encourage an extraordinary new wave of vocations to the priesthood, consecrated life, and sacramental marriage! It is a 288-page comprehensive manual on how to start and sustain an effective Vocation Ministry in the typical Catholic Parish, including a step-by-step guide for each of the highlighted 67 activities that will help a parish create a vocation-friendly environment.

Rhonda Gruenewald, from her experience of leading a successful parish vocation ministry, has written Hundredfold: A Guide to Parish Vocation Ministry providing information, activities, and inspiration to anyone starting, reviving, or refreshing a Vocation Ministry, and to make those ministries thrive. It is designed to inspire parishes to get involved in vocation work, to help new ministries start strong by providing a clear guide to the nuts and bolts of the ministry, and to reinvigorate long-standing committees with fresh ideas that attract new workers to God’s vineyard.

This book gives the reader:

• an overview of vocations: why we need to promote good vocations to the priesthood, religious life, and sacramental marriage, and why the parish is the perfect place to promote vocations;
• direction on the aspects of administering a Vocation Ministry: praying for its effectiveness, recruiting people to be involved, leading efficient meetings, tapping into additional resources, and funding the ministry;
• a prayerful guide to how to implement up to 67 different vocation activities that involve some aspect of prayer, awareness and education, youth, and affirmation, including step-by-step instructions for each activity, so that a ministry, new or established, has exactly the tools needed to foster vocations in a parish.

Rhonda Gruenewald understands how each parish vocation committee/ministry must reinvent the wheel when it comes to vocation work.

Treading her own path for vocations, she has written Hundredfold: A Guide to Parish Vocation Ministry so that your ministry does not have to start from scratch, making that path easier and more fruitful for you.