Speaker at black congress sees cyberspace as new evangelization tool

Published: 2007-07-18

BUFFALO, N.Y. (CNS) -- Yvette Wilson-Gardner's parents helped build Chicago's Holy Name of Mary Church, the first black parish to construct its own building in the Archdiocese of Chicago. Now she wants to build a new, digital church to reach out to today's young, digital generation. Wilson-Gardner said the parish Web site's information on the parish's youth ministry is bare-bones and needs help to expand it. She picked up several ideas from a July 13 workshop at the 10th National Black Catholic Congress on "Communication, Education and Evangelization Through Modern Technologies." At the workshop, Christopher Boudy of St. Joseph the Worker Parish in New Orleans who is co-author of the soon-to-be-released "Technology in Youth Ministry: Guidelines for Effective Communication and Evangelization" said today's young adults and youths are building entire communities of friends online, including people they have never met.

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