"On Nov. 5, 350 parish leaders from across the archdiocese learned how to share this story as they gathered at St. Camillus Church in Silver Spring for an Evangelization Conference, featuring keynote speaker Sherry Weddell, author of Forming Intentional Disciples. The conference, which was the first of its kind held in the archdiocese, was designed to further the mission of the Archdiocesan Synod to increase parish evangelization, and to continue thinking about how to go out to the peripheries after the visit of Pope Francis, said Susan Timoney, archdiocese’s secretary for pastoral ministry and social concerns, as she opened the conference."