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Give your parishioners two days devoted to discovering the gifts God has given them and where the Holy Spirit is calling them to serve and build the Church in your parish.
Anyone in the parish who wants to be there. Grandparents and teenagers, daily-Mass regulars and the couple who slip out after Communion, people who have led ministries for thirty years and people still wondering whether the parish has a place for them.
Day one lays the foundation: who God says you are, and what a charism is. That night, everyone takes the charism assessment at home, on a phone or a computer, from a link we give the parish.
Day two starts with their results in hand. All your parishioners are encouraged to bring their questions as we go through all possible charisms and answer questions specific to them. Day two ends with how to finish discernment, so nobody goes home with results and no idea what to do with them.
Day one
We start with what we believe about ourselves, God, and the relationship between us. This then leads into a deeper conversation about how this identity impacts how we live service and mission in our lives, and why clarity in this area has to come first.
Then we'll get into the theology of grace, charisms, and how these gifts differ from talents and from the Gifts of the Spirit discussed in sacramental prep. Everything is grounded in Scripture, Vatican II, and the Catechism, with easy-to-understand framing.
How to take it, what it can and can't tell you, and why it gives you a most-likely list rather than a final answer.
Day two
A walk through each charism on our list — both hallmarks of the gift and what it looks like in daily life.
We end by breaking open how discernment works, starting with a most-likely list, not a definitive answer. We'll explain how to create test scenarios, the steps of the process, how long to take, and what commitment means.
Our recommended methodology is our half- or full-day parish workshops, instead of a two-night mission, as it allows for continuity in the day that often serves parishioners best. It is not uncommon when we run a parish mission for people to not realize that they need to attend both days, leading to incomplete information for people who only come one night or the other.
The half-day Parish Charism Workshop covers the same four sessions in a single morning or afternoon, and it costs $1,500.
The full day costs the same as the mission and adds what there's no time for across two shorter days: time to reflect on identity, the three stages of identity, the assessment taken together in the room, small groups where people tell each other what gifts they see, and a finished discernment plan.
That said, if you are excited about the two-day mission model or believe it will support your vision or parish best, we are happy to accommodate you.
We can lead your parish mission any two days in a row: Saturday and Sunday, Sunday and Monday, two weeknights, whatever fits your parish calendar. Each day runs about two hours, with a break and time for questions. If you'd like to pair it with a Mass your parish already has planned, we'll build the schedule around that.
| What | Cost |
|---|---|
| Two-day parish mission — about two hours each day | $1,800 |
| Travel | at cost |
| Charism assessment, per person | $6.99 |
That's $900 a day. Assessments are billed after the mission for the people who actually took one — never a guess at attendance, and never a block you have to buy up front. If your parish has already taken the assessment, that line is simply zero.
Their own results, a most-likely list of three or four charisms to test, and a plan for finishing discernment — so nobody walks out with a good feeling and nowhere to put it.
A charism assessment is a starting point, not a verdict. It tells someone what they most likely have; using it is how they find out.
These two days help your parishioners discover the gifts God has given them. The next question is what your parish does with those gifts, and there's a lot Many Parts can help with: small-group studies, books your parishioners can keep going with, and the parish programs, which build charism discernment into how your parish engages with parishioners all year. We'd love to help cast a vision for where charisms can take your community in the months and years to come.