The Archiocese of New Orleans has developed excellent definitions of "Evangelization" and
"New Evangelization":

THE DEFINITIONS ABOVE WERE DEVELOPED AND APPROVED FOR USE BY THE ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW ORLEANS.
BISHOP FABRE APPROVED THEM FOR USE BY THE DIOCESE OF HOUMA-THIBODAUX IN 2015.

The Houma-Thibodaux Diocesan Office of The New Evangelization is here to serve all parishes, schools and/or ministries in the diocese to reach their particular vision, goals and/or strategies directed toward the evangelization of others. This service does not have to be a high-profile production or a program of great effort. Parishes are now evangelizing in so many ways. Parish bulletins clearly evidence that.

Evangelization services offered by this office in a parish are so much more about:

• Identifying the current actions of evangelization
• Helping to expand current actions of evangelization
• Helping to develope one-on-one personal relationships between parish leaders, persons called to evangelize, and others in crisis or headed into a crisis so that evangelization is much more likely to occur.
• In all the above, the most important relationship we try to help build is a personal relationship with Jesus. We always evangelize in the Holy Name of Jesus.

It is not unusual, even with the best of personal intentions, for our minds to be full of fears and doubts that keep us from effectively evangelizing. We all feel so inadequate - especially due to our own individual flaws and imperfections and the storms raging around us. Even the apostles dealt with that and those insecurities.

Regardless, Jesus commissioned the Church to:

"Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, until the end of the age.” (Matt 28: 19-20)