“Come Holy Spirit With Your Fire”

Catholic Charismatic Renewal of Birmingham AL, Inc. 25th Annual Conference on July 25 and 26, 2025

The Catholic Charismatic Renewal of Birmingham AL, Inc. is excited to share our 25th Silver Jubilee Conference for the Diocese of Birmingham. It will be held on July 25 and 26, 2025 at John Carroll Catholic High School, 300 Lakeshore Parkway, Birmingham, AL 35209. This promises to be one of the most Spirit filled conferences with the theme “Come Holy Spirit With Your Fire,” an acronym for Faith, Intercession, Repentance and Evangelization. It will feature world renowned Ralph Martin as the main speaker along with Father James Hedderman and Father Frankline Fomukong, both dynamic and charismatic speakers. Father James Hedderman will celebrate mass on Friday and Fr. Paul Asih will celebrate a vigil mass on Saturday at 4:00 P.M. Sister Anne Marie Schreiner D.C. will offer spiritual direction during the conference.
Ralph Martin is the president of Renewal Ministries, an organization devoted to Catholic renewal and evangelization. It engages in a wide variety of mission work in more than 30 countries. Renewal Ministries is the sponsor of “The Choices We Face,” a widely viewed weekly Catholic television and radio program distributed throughout the world.

Ralph is also the Director of Graduate Theology Programs in Evangelization and a professor of theology at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in the Archdiocese of Detroit. He holds a doctorate in theology from the Angelicum University in Rome. Pope Benedict XVI appointed Ralph as a Consultor to the Pontifical Council for the New Evangelization where he served a 12 year term. He was also appointed as a theological expert for the Synod on the New Evangelization.

He is the author of the widely read The Fulfillment of All Desire: A Guidebook for the Journey to God Based on the Wisdom of the Saints, and many books on spirituality and evangelization as well as many articles in scholarly and popular publications. His latest book is A Church in Crisis: Pathways Forward. Ralph and his wife Anne reside in Ann Arbor, Michigan and are the parents of six and grandparents of nineteen.

Registration fee for the conference is $50 for individuals and $130 for a family of 3 or more. For further information email Jeannie Wade at Jwade3585@outlook.com or call Ray Makofsky at 205-999-8947. To register, visit www.catholiccharismaticrenewal.org. We hope you will join us for an exciting faith-filled weekend. Everyone is Welcome!