Confessions of a Catholic Youth Minister

Questions for National Catholic Register blog post written by Susan Klemond  you can find the blog post at  https://www.ncregister.com/ You live in Sugar Grove? We have have lived in Sugar Grove, Illinois since 2003. You have five children? Yes, four girls and one boy. Bethany, Rebecca, Johnmark, Abigail, and Elizabeth. My wife, Jan, homeschooled four of the five, two through high school and two through eighth grade, so far, we have one with a Doctorate in Mathematics, one with a Masters in Library Science, one with a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Automotive, one who will earn a Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing in May and our youngest just started college and is studying Fashion Design. Since Jan was a home school teacher full time, I worked extra jobs to make up for the lost in income.Some years, I delivered Chicago Tribune newspapers, I taught two of the Theology classes at St Francis High School for one school year, for several years I recruited attorneys for possibl

Author unknown editing and updated by Mark Herwaldt  “Excuse me,” I said to the lady “but could I have a tract?” The lady's face beamed. “Are you saved?,” she asked. “Of course I am; I’m a believing Catholic,” I retorted. She continued, “I too was a Catholic - a Catholic for thirty-some years in fact. Now I've found Christ and I’m trying to tell everyone I know about salvation through Christ." "Could I ask Why you left the Church?” "You see,” she said, “I was born Catholic. I attended Mass every week, received the Sacraments and graduated from a Catholic school. Not once did I ever hear the gospel proclaimed. Not once! It was after the birth of my first child that a good friend of mine shared ‘the gospel’ with me and I accepted Jesus as my personal Lord and Savior and became a Christian. Now I belong to a ‘Bible-believing’ church and I’m sharing the gospel with whomever will listen.” This shocked me. “You mean you belonged to the Catholic Church for over

In 1984, on a cold December night as I drove passed empty cornfields on Interstate 57 heading towards a Happening in Christianity weekend at Saint Therese Church in Kankakee, God spoke to me in a quiet whisper."You are going to give the Holy Spirit talk." I put my life into God's hands that night. I have never looked back.  For the next six years, I worked full time in various jobs in the business world including sales,  banking, and retail management while volunteering with Jan in the Happening weekends in Kankakee. I took on several leadership positions within the Happening. One weekend. I was chapel Head. We took a classroom and transformed it into a holy prayer space. Then the Chapel team had at least one person in the chapel night and day for the whole weekend. Because the weekend was covered in prayer, we saw God change the hearts of many people. On a another weekend I was kitchen head. I know some of you are thinking "Mark in charge of the cooking?! Did anyo

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