Welcome to No Soul Left Behind.

Sadly, many in our churches today don't understand God's message of love and mercy to a fallen world or feel ill-equipped or afraid to share it.  Many parish evangelization efforts don't produce the intended fruits because they go directly from concept to program without engaging in a healthy prayer effort.  In Go and Make Disciples, we are told:

"These goals are meaningless unless they are steeped in prayer. Without prayer, the Good News of Jesus Christ cannot be understood, spread, or accepted. These goals can be accomplished only by opening our hearts to God, who gives to his children everything they seek, who responds when we knock, and who answers when we persevere in asking. At Mass, in the Liturgy of the Hours, in prayer groups, and in individual prayer and devotions, we must ask unceasingly for the grace to evangelize. The moment we stop praying for the grace to spread the Good News of Jesus will be the moment when we lose the power to evangelize."¹

Through God's grace, St. Ladislas Parish in Westlake, Ohio, developed a program of prayer that engages their parishioners in their lifesaving mission to evangelize, so that it’s a part of who they are and who they are becoming.  They've found that this program is sowing the concept into the spiritual fabric of the parish so that it’s part of their community, not just a program that will be forgotten about in a year.   

They've found these to be the benefits of the No Soul Left Behind Parish Program:

• People come to understand that evangelization is their call too.
• Praying for others  helps to fashion their hearts to love others in the way that God loves us and to see the world the way He sees it.
• People get to see that everyone needs to grow in their faith in some fashion:  those who don't know Jesus, those who have fallen away from practicing their faith, and those who want to deepen their faith.  

¹ Go and Make Disciples, US Conference of Catholic Bishops, 1992, #83.