My most popular presentations are Sharing YOUR Faith Story retreats, seminars and workshops on evangelization which:

  • Explain why baptized Christians are meant to be evangelists
  • Demonstrate through examples how to know, prepare and deliver our faith story
  • Provide strategies and resources for evangelization through our personal witness
  • Guide you through workshop exercises to write your faith story.
  • Give ten tips for sharing a conversion, reversion or renewal story

My workshops, retreats and seminars answer the question: “How do I give my personal witness?”

As I tell my conversion and renewal stories, I demonstrate how to witness effectively and authentically. Workshop exercises get you started in preparing your faith story. Then I explain tips and cautions to help you focus your story and tell it succinctly. These tips also apply to stories of healings, miracles and answered prayers. I conclude with many ways to share your story in person, in print or online.

Here’s a Sharing Your Faith Story YouTube video on encouragement from “Sharing Your Faith Story, a three-part seminar for evangelization” DVD.

“Sharing Your Catholic Faith Story” is perfect for:

  • Workshops
  • Women’s Conferences
  • Evangelization programs
  • Book Group and Bible Study leaders
  • Faith Formation staff and RCIA teachers
  • Prayer group leaders
  • Youth ministry leaders
  • Peer ministry and cell group leaders
  • Program chairpersons for parish organizations
  • Priests and deacons giving parish missions
  • Everyone with a faith story to share

TOPICS for TALKS:

Like the Sharing Your Catholic Faith Story retreats and workshops, all single talk presentations are adapted for the needs and interests of each organization. Two or three single talks can be combined for a custom workshop or retreat. Some of the most popular topics for talks are:

  1. Pandemic Evangelization
    How we share our faith in crises.
  2. Why Keep a Spiritual Journal?
    The basics and benefits of keeping spiritual journals of different kinds.
  3. Ten Ways Journaling Makes You Happier
    How scientific research and personal experience prove keeping a gratitude journal raises your happiness level.
  4. Five Ways Mary Helps Us Share Our Story
    How the Holy Spirit works through our story as he did through that of Mary, the first evangelist.
  5. How I Discovered I Belong in the Catholic Church
    Nancy Ward’s childhood and young adult faith journey from a devout Protestant to a Catholic convert.
  1. The Gift of Conversion
    How the Holy Spirit helps us unwrap the gift of a life-long conversion, treasure by treasure.
  2. How to Share Your Renewal Story
    How cradle Catholics and converts have more to share than an initial commitment.
  3. How to be a Bridge to Catholicism
    How to help non-Catholics and former Catholics cross over to Catholicism.
  4. Always be Ready to Share Your Catholic Faith Story
    Tools, tips, and strategies to discover, clarify, and prepare to evangelize through your conversion and renewal stories.
  5. Implementing a Sharing Your Catholic Faith Story Ministry
    How to organize and facilitate a Sharing Your Catholic Faith Story ministry in your Catholic parish or organization.
  6. How to Form and Facilitate a Writers Group
    How to find and befriend other Catholic writers for peer support, mentoring and critiquing.

Compensation for all presentations is customized to meet the needs of the audience, and also depends on the location in relation to Dallas, TX. Special consideration is given to non-profit organizations.

Contact: NancyHCWard@verizon.net


Seminars, Workshops, and Days of Renewal

  • January 22, 2020 – Evangelization Workshop – St. Agnes Church, Naples, FL
  • February 9, 2019 -“Sharing Your Catholic Faith Story” Women’s Day of Reflection, St. Martin of Tours Parish, Forney, TX
  • September 24, 2016–Evangelization Workshop, Mary Immaculate Catholic Church, Farmers Branch, TX
  • August 14, 2016–”My conversion story in three steps” – Mount St. Michael Catholic School Gym, Dallas, TX
  • August 13, 2016 –Evangelization Workshop – St. Michael Catholic Church, Garland, TX
  • April 25, 2015 –”Sharing Your Faith Story” –  Women’s Forum – Mount St. Michael, Dallas, TX

Live Conferences

Catholic Writers Guild Conference Live

I  present writing workshops and serve on panel discussions. As a Board member, I welcome conference attendees and staff the CWG booth the Catholic Marketing Network Tradeshow.

Margaret Rose Realy, Nancy Ward, Pat Gohn, Heidi Hess Saxon, Claudia Volkman and Donna Marie Cooper-O’Boyle make up the Nonfiction Panel at 2015 Catholic Writers Guild Live Conference
  • August 2, 2019 – “Authentic Catholic Marketing” – Catholic Writers Conference Live. Lancaster, PA
  • July 30, 2019 – “Non-Fiction Critique Workshop” – Catholic Writers Conference Live. Lancaster, PA
  • July 31, 2018 – “Non-Fiction Critique Workshop” – Catholic Writers Conference Live. Lancaster, PA
  • July 20, 2017 – “Non-Fiction Critique Workshop” – Catholic Writers Conference Live, Chicago, IL
  • July 28, 2016 – “Non-Fiction Critique Workshop,” Catholic Writers Guild Conference Live, Chicago, IL
  • July 27, 2015 – “Welcome to the Catholic Writers Guild” Panel Presentation, Catholic Writers Guild  Conference Live, Chicago, IL
  • July 24, 2015 – “Non-Fiction Critique Workshop” – Catholic Writers Guild Conference Live, Somerset, NJ
  • July 23, 2015 – “Blogging Panel,”  Catholic Writers Guild Conference Live, Somerset, NJ. Video (My intro at 2:42; mission at 6:50, why I blog at 17:20, security at 45:00 and readership at 46:00)
  • July 23, 2015 – “Non-Fiction Panel Discussion,” Catholic Writers Guild Conference Live , Somerset, NJ
  • August 1, 2014 – “Non-Fiction Critique Workshop,” Catholic Writers Guild Conference Live, Chicago, IL

Live Speeches

Q&A during Nancy Ward's presentation of Five Ways Mary Helps us Share Our Story, Our Lady of the Lake Parish, Rockwall, TX, 2-9-17 (photo by Diane Roe) Q&A during Nancy Ward’s presentation of Five Ways Mary Helps us Share Our Story, Our Lady of the Lake Parish, Rockwall, TX, 2-9-17 (photo by Diane Roe)

My speeches range from fifteen-minute talks on how to implement a witness ministry to one-hour talks to inspire parishioners to evangelize.

  • February 25, 2023 – My Testimony – Magnificat Prayer Breakfast,  Grapevine, Texas Chapter
  • January 3, 2020 – “Journaling into 2020” – Women of All Saints Parish, Dallas, TX
  • April 23, 2019 – “Five Ways Mary Helps Us Share Our Story” – St. Mark Catholic Church, Plano, TX Moms Group
  • April 28, 2018 – “What’s Your Faith Story?” – 50th Anniversary of Altar Society of St. Francis of Assisi, Lancaster, TX
  • April 10, 2018 – “Ten ways Journaling Makes You Happier” – Texas Business Women of Oak Cliff – Celebration Restaurant, Dallas, TX
  • February 27, 2018, – “Why Keep a Spiritual Journal?” – Diocese of Dallas Council of Catholic Women Quarterly Meeting of Deanery – St. Bernard of Clairvaux Parish, Dallas,  TX (Hear the interview on Broadcasts page.)
  • November 1, 2017 – “The Gift of Conversion” – Women’s Guild, St. Philip the Apostle, Dallas, TX
  • February 10, 2017 – “Five Ways Mary Helps us Share Our Story,” Women’s Bible Study and Faith Sharing, Our Lady of the Lake Parish, Rockwall, TX
  • August 14, 2016 – “My conversion story in three steps,” Mount St. Michael Catholic School Gym, Dallas, TX
  • May 4, 2016 – “Always be ready to share your faith in the Year of Mercy,” Sisters in the Spirit, St. Agnes Church, Naples, FL
  • April 17, 2016 – “Implementing Sharing Your Faith Story Ministry,  Ten-minute Talks series, Community Gathering of Christian Community of God’s Delight, Dallas, TX
  • February 3, 2016 – Toastmasters International Competent Communicator Award
  • November 10, 2015 – “Sharing YOUR Faith Story,” Sister’s Intercessory (Andrien Farquharson, facilitator) St. Pius, Dallas, TX
  • September 17, 2015 – “How Microphones Work,” Toastmasters of Rockwall, TX, Best Speaker Award
  • August 20, 2015 – “The Missing Toastmaster Role,” Toastmasters of Rockwall, TX
  • August 13, 2015 – “Toastmaster Roles in the Real World,” Toastmasters of Rockwall, TX
  • June 26, 2015 – “Heroic Perseverance,” Toastmasters of Rockwall, TX. Awarded Best Speaker
  • May 21, 2015 – “How to Raise Your Happiness Set Point,” Toastmasters of Rockwall, TX. Awarded Best Speaker
  • April 9, 2015 – “The Power of God and GPS,” Toastmasters of Rockwall, TX
  • March 19, 2015 – “What’s Next? Video?” Toastmasters of Rockwall, TX. Awarded Best Speaker
  • January 8, 2015 – “What Brings Me to Toastmasters” – Toastmasters of Rockwall, TX – Awarded  Best Speaker
  • October 15, 2014 – “Sharing Your Faith Story,” Book Study Group, St. Michael’s Catholic Church, Garland, TX
 
 
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