Discipleship

New Years Journey

About this Journey

This journey is an opportunity to invite parishioners to set spiritual disciplines as they make their new year's resolutions. This journey gives parishioners a great foundation and attainable practices from Fr. John O'Brien's The Six Daily Habits For Spiritual Resiliency.

The goal is to inspire and challenge your parish’s personal spiritual life in order to gain deeper resilience and motivation in their relationship with Jesus. This is also a great preamble to invite parishioners into ministry opportunities you want to launch in the new year.

What would this full journey require of me?

Copy and paste emails, and send right to your parishioners
Download images and post on social media
Request for New Years content to be added to your website

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Customize for your parish

Everything in this package is ready-made for you to use as is or edit to make it more your own. We've created fully customizable templates in the free-to-use online design tool, Canva. Use all the assets together or pick and choose what makes sense for your community.

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Parishioner emails

Intentional resources for the first month of the year.

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Social post

Promote new years & discipleship resources.

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Daily Habits Guide

A simple guidebook for growing in spiritual resiliency.

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Resource page

General resources for starting the new year.

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Parishioner emails

Celebrate New Years with your parishioners, offering them resolution ideas and a prayer. Throughout the month of January, provide resources and encouragement to implement simple but transformational spiritual disciplines.

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Email: New Year Guides & Reflection Q’s

Prep parishioners to reflect on their relationship with God.

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Email: Happy New Year! A prayer for you

Begin the new year with a prayer.

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Email: A little inspiration for you & your family

During the first weekend of the new year, inspire your parishioners with stories and resources from Behold.

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Daily Habits Guide

This book breaks down six, easy-to-impelent steps for someone’s daily discipleship to God. It gives resources to use and ways to integrate into your life.

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Six Daily Habits book

This book breaks down six, easy-to-impelent steps for someone’s daily discipleship to God. It gives resources to use and ways to integrate into your life.

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Resource page

Request to have a New Years content feed added to your website for those who want to explore more.

Customize to meet your needs

Resource page

Set up New Years resources on your website to make it easy for people to engage deeper.

Welcome to the New Years Journey

Below is the recommended rollout plan and also a list of all the deliverables available to you. This isn’t the only way to do it! But we think it might be really effective.

When should I roll this out?

This journey is meant to be run for the beginning of the year, starting just a few days before New Years Day. We recommend planning it alongside Christmas initiatives. This journey will pair well with the Rule of Life Journey or the Six Daily Habits Journey after.

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Part 1 - Update your website

The first step is refreshing your website homepage with content that highlights spiritual disciplines and starting the new year well. This is a good chance to also highlight any new programs and ministries in the new year!

Part 2 - Get parishioners excited for the new year

Schedule this email and social posts prior to the new year to give them time to prepare. Offer different ways for them to intentionally grow in the coming year. Additionally, you can print off free resources and leave them at the back of the parish for anyone to access.

Part 3 - New Year’s Day resources & prayer

On New Year's Day, send an email with a New Year’s Prayer to your parishioners. As well, provide a reminder of the resources they have available to them: guidebooks, recommended prayer apps, and more. If your parish is running other initiatives like Alpha or studies in the new year, this could also be added to the email.

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Part 4 - Encouragement in the first week of January

As people start the new year and slowly start getting back into (or creating new ones) rhythms, this is a chance to inspire their hearts and encourage them in areas that they may be wrestling with.

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As people start the new year and slowly start getting back into (or creating new ones) rhythms, this is a chance to inspire their hearts and encourage them in areas that they may be wrestling with.

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