{"href":"http://player.captivate.fm/services/oembed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.captivate.fm%2Fepisode%2F9d2d71ae-91a3-43fd-b12a-245034657acb","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Captivate.FM","provider_url":"https://www.captivate.fm","width":600,"height":200,"type":"rich","html":"","title":"Hitting the Streets With St. Paul","description":"(00:03) Narrator sets the scene of what a typical St. Paul Street Evangelization outing may look like at Comerica Park in downtown Detroit.\r\n\n\n(01:00) Listeners are introduced to Steve Dawson, founder of St. Paul Street Evangelization, a Detroit-based grassroots nonprofit that focuses on evangelization and meeting people where they are \u2014 literally.\r\n\n\n(03:43) Steve explains how in 2012, he and his wife were noticing a lack of Catholic evangelists in Portland, Ore., where they lived, and wanted to do something about that.\r\n\n\n(04:51) The narrator describes those first days of evangelizing in Portland, and the reaction he received evangelizing in what might be the \u201cleast religious city in America.\u201d\r\n\n\n(06:13) Listeners learn about Steve\u2019s youth. Raised without any religion at all, Steve got in a lot of trouble. He doesn\u2019t even remember how many times he\u2019s been arrested, he said. \r\n\n\n(07:44) Steve talks about how his mother re-verted to the Catholic faith, but he wasn\u2019t interested in the Church. \r\n\n\n(08:20) Steve describes his conversion to the faith, how God \u201cgave him a supernatural grace to have the desire to search for Him.\u201d That grace led to his desire to share God\u2019s grace with the world. \r\n\n\n(11:07) Steve discusses those first evangelization opportunities, handing out Miraculous Medals and having conversations with random people about the faith, and how St. Paul Street Evangelization took off from those simple early conversations to form an apostolate spread across four countries. \r\n\n\n(15:02) Listeners are introduced to Bob Wilson, present-day director of St. Paul Street Evangelization, who describes his first evangelization outing at a \u201cNoel Night\u201d in downtown Detroit. \r\n\n\n(17:03) Evangelist Carol LaPalm describes how she got involved in street evangelization in Royal Oak. Evangelists rarely get the chance to follow up with the people they encounter with on the streets, the rest left in God\u2019s hands.\r\n\n\n(19:59) Donna Spivey describes how she came into the faith because of the witness of St. Paul Street Evangelization. Donna describes how the interaction sparked something in her: a desire to explore the Catholic faith. \r\n\n\n(22:32) Donna describes previous experiences that turned her off to the Church, but adds how St. Paul Street Evangelization helped her feel welcome, explaining the faith in a way that is warm, inviting and enticing. \r\n\n\n(24:53) Donna says how much St. Paul Street Evangelization changed her life, her family\u2019s life, and what it means to find faith in Jesus and wanting to share Jesus with others. \r\n\n\n(25:46) Steve and Bob talk about the great urgency for Catholics to evangelize, with God guiding each and every Catholic to proclaim the Gospel and further the Kingdom of God. \r\n\n\nReporting by Daniel Meloy; narration and production by Ron Pangborn; script by Casey McCorry\r\n\n\nListen to \u2018Detroit Stories\u2019 on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Fireside. Podcasts also will be posted biweekly on DetroitCatholic.com.\r\n","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/60806a22-68ad-48c6-b9bd-b8cf904e858d/cover.jpg"}