Review
An enjoyable template for the challenge of evangelization - Lisa Hendey
Evangelization just got easier. - Melanie Rigney
God's choicest blessings on Nancy as she answers this call - John Michael Talbot
A der Keg of Evangelizing Zeal -- Michael Seagriff
Nancy Ward can help us learn to tell our faith stories, and that is the beginning of converting this culture -- Rebecca Hamilton
A book that needed to be written - Gary Zimak
The world is hungry to hear your story! - Dave Palmer
Sharing Your Faith Story is about what God is doing in our lives and the good things God has for us that he brings to others by the gift of who we are. - Pat Gohn
Nancy Ward can help us learn to tell our faith stories, and that is the beginning of converting this culture. -- Rebecca Hamilton
Sharing Your Catholic Faith Story removes a Catholic's fear of the word evangelism and equips them to step out with confidence and simply share the joy of the Gospel. - Melanie Jean Juneau
Nancy's sharing of her journey gives me encouragement that I, too, can get through the arid deserts of life and find renewal through the Holy Spirit. Virginia Lieto
About the Author
After a varied career that has included college teaching, graphic design, and working with non-profits, Lisa Nicholas, Ph. D. (University of Dallas), now works as freelance writer (including ghostwriting), editor, translator, and book designer. Many of these activities are reflected in her occasional blogging efforts, which are aggregated on her omniblog at https: //lanicholas.com She particularly enjoys working with Catholic writers. Some of her writing clients and collaborators include T. M. Doran, Colleen Drippé, Andrew M. Seddon, C. D. Verhoff, and Dr. Lisa Petronis. She is the English translator of the work of Spanish writer Jorge Sáez Criado and an editor of Shared Things, the journal of the Anglicanorum Coetibus Society.
Nancy Ward's training in journalism, experience in writing, conversion to the Catholic Church, and maturity of spirit qualify her to write Sharing Your Catholic Faith Story at this time. She has seen the results in others and deeply experienced conversion and spiritual renewal in her own life in astounding ways. Nancy has been writing since her childhood and earned a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism at the University of North Texas. Her media experience includes three years with the Texas Catholic newspaper and two years with the Catholic Diocese of Dallas Television and Evangelization Office. Throughout her 25 years as an entrepreneur of The Word Works, a writing and editing consulting service, her clients included corporate, technical, educational, and nonprofit organizations. She has written more than 200 articles for commercial, nonprofit, and Catholic publications. Her Christian magazine credits include Charisma, Our Sunday Visitor, New Covenant, St. Anthony Messenger, and Vocations Magazine. She has taught church newsletter seminars at Southern Methodist University, helped teach non-credit courses in technical writing at the University of Texas at Dallas, and presented public relations mini-workshops for civic organizations. Born in Fort Worth and educated in El Paso, Texas, Nancy has lived on the west coast in Seattle, San Francisco, San Diego; and the east coast in Boston and Washington, D. C. (during 9-11). All these experiences, plus foreign travel (including to the Holy Land, Rome, and Assisi), along with her Protestant childhood, give her a unique picture of the many facets of the Catholic Church. Nancy's own struggles and victories have brought her from Protestantism to the fullness of faith in Catholicism and given her the impetus to use her talents, training, and insights to create Sharing Your Catholic Faith Story: Tools, Tips, and Testimonies. She shares about Catholicism, her conversion and Christian community at http: //JoyAlive.net as well as on Catholic Mom, Spiritual Direction, Catholic Writers Guild, and New Evangelizers. She facilitates the Dallas/Fort Worth Catholic Writers and a nonfiction critique group for the Catholic Writers Guild, where she serves as a board member. She contributed four chapters to The Catholic Mom's Prayer Companion (Ave Maria Press, September 2016). Through her award-winning Sharing Your Catholic Faith Story: Tools, Tips, and Testimonies workshops, retreats, book, and DVD, she shares her conversion story at Catholic parishes and conferences, equipping others to evangelize by sharing their own stories. See http: //NancyHCWard.com.
