Good News Ministries welcomes you to more faith!

Ralph and Terry Modica at a conference

About This Catholic Ministry:

Visit the Good News Ministries home page as your go-to place for helpful, healing daily reflections , podcasts, videos, personal messages from God, daily prayers with Saints, books by Terry Modica, weekly faith-building articles, prayer-of-the-week, and more!

Our Good News Mission:

While “Good News Ministries” is a common name, we uniquely provide the true teachings of the Catholic Church and Holy Scripture in a way that increases your faith and empowers to you grow stronger spiritually. Good News Ministries is an antidote to the challenging times we live in.

Good News Ministries is Catholic, preaching Jesus adored in the Host in the Monstrance

Our Motto:

Keep Christ at the center, the Word of Truth in your heart, and the traditional teachings of the Catholic Church as the guardian of your soul.

Good News Ministries’ most popular feature:

The daily Catholic Good News Reflections make the scriptures meaningful
for your everyday life. Subscribe free by email and text message. They are life-enriching, short and thought-provoking messages about the readings from the Catholic Mass, always in compliance with the Magisterium of the Catholic Church.

Our Availability:

Good News Ministries on your phone

We’ve been pioneering the use of technology since 1996 to deliver Catholic faith-building services. With the vision to identify how to use it early and often, we have been successfully giving Jesus Christ to people who are not otherwise reached by traditional methods, on a global scale.

Download: Who We Are, What We Believe, How We Serve, & our By-Laws

We change the world by changing hearts for Christ:

We inspire Catholics to become fully alive as Christians, growing in holiness, deepening their prayer life, and developing a personal relationship with Jesus who gives us salvation and with the Holy Spirit who empowers us to live the way Christ calls us to live.

First we help Catholics to discover how passionately Jesus cares about them. Then we teach them to share their faith by using the gifts and talents and experiences and skills they already have. Join with us in renewing the face of the earth!

See “Succeed in mission work without leaving home” (how to worship God more deeply by giving of yourself).

We teach the 3 callings of all Catholics:

Every Catholic can be activated in the ministry of evangelization!

  1. The Call to Holiness
    Who you are as a Catholic Christian: Because of your baptism and your belief in Christ, you are a saint who can grow in holiness daily through the Holy Spirit’s power.
  2. The Call to Mission
    Identify your divine purpose: You have gifts and talents that can attract others to Christ.
  3. The Call to Change the World
    How to evangelize by living the Good News: Grow stronger in living and sharing the unconditional love of Jesus in everyday life and in the parish.

We teach from:

  • Scripture
  • The Nicene Creed
  • The Sermon on the Mount
  • The Lord’s Prayer
  • The Catechism of the Catholic Church
  • Decree on the Apostolate of Lay People of Vatican Council II
  • On Evangelization in the Modern World by Pope Paul VI
  • Pope Saint John Paul II’s writings on the Eucharist
  • Pope Francis’ encyclicals
  • Personal experience

 

SpiritFMHear the story of Good News Ministries from an interview of co-founder Terry Modica on her diocese’s radio station.

Good News Ministries of Tampa Bay was founded in 1995 by Terry and Ralph Modica in the Diocese of St. Petersburg, Florida. Our staff and volunteer team serve from across the US and around the world. The Executive Director Terry Modica is an international speaker and author. (Ralph unfortunately passed away in 2024.)

Terry Modica Catholic Speaker from Good News MinistriesTerry Modica in New Zealand > Hear it!

Why we are passionate about our mission

Good News Ministries gnm.orgThere are too many people who are turning their backs on Christ and Church and their own salvation. The numbers have been increasing and the world is worse off for it. Meanwhile, there are too few passionately committed disciples of Christ embracing the mission with their whole heart and soul and life. If we allow Good News Ministries to slow down or shrink (there is no such thing as plateauing and staying there), we sin greatly and we will be accountable for the souls that we could have reached but did not. (Wow, ouch! Imagine dying and discovering how many souls failed to reach heaven because of you.)

The word that the Lord has given to us and confirmed and re-confirmed down through the years is that we must reach out and find people who are not being served well by their local churches, and those who are not interested in going to church, and those who are hurting and seeking the Lord. Since 1999, we have relied heavily on the written word via email broadcasts and several websites, but younger generations are not using these tools like older generations do.

God is a God of more. There is much, much more that needs to be done for his kingdom in this world today. So much darkness, yet so few are spreading the Light of Christ! The founding director, Terry Modica, says, “I will work hard to spread that light all the way to my dying breath.”

The question is, can we afford to keep doing this work? After going deep into prayer about it, the Lord reminded me: With the current level of faithlessness in the world, we cannot afford to not do this.

Join the Good News Ministries team

Please pray about becoming part of the Good News Ministries team one way or another. Will you give God your enthusiastic, whole-hearted yes?

More about Good News Ministries:

Connecting with the disconnected

Connecting with the disconnected

We are connecting with those who are disconnected from the Catholic Church! Almost from the beginning, Good News Ministries has been active on the internet to reach the hearts and souls of people who struggle to discover that Jesus is real and that he really does care -- including those who are not...
Copyright Protection & Permission

Copyright Protection & Permission

Permission to copy the works of Good News Ministries of Tampa Bay, Inc. Everything at gnm.org and wordbytes.org is provided free for personal use . You will be granted permission, soon after submitting your request, to print what you're requesting for yourself. Submitting the request helps us learn...
Frequently Asked Questions

Frequently Asked Questions

How can we help? Asking for prayers? Please direct your prayer request to gnm.org/prayers/post-a-prayer so that the entire Good News Prayer Network can get involved. Asking about signing up for the Good News Reflections? To sign up for your subscription to the Good News Reflections, please go...
How to be a Good News Ambassador

How to be a Good News Ambassador

Be a missionary without leaving home! A few suggestions Join us (or become more involved) in the apostleship of the mission of Good News Ministries. You can be a Good News Missionary, serving the Lord with us, changing the world one soul at a time. Here are some ideas on how to do it, but of course...
How to succeed in mission work without leaving home

How to succeed in mission work without leaving home

How to worship God more deeply by giving of yourself A story about feeling cheated Some years ago, I learned a valuable lesson about the connection between worship and the work of the mission of Christ. Ralph and I helped a family in our church by giving them much-needed financial support to pay...
Meet the Good News Team!

Meet the Good News Team!

+ Administrative Board: Terry Modica, Bill Snyder, Beth Solis + Staff: Kathy Taylor, Graciela Ribot, Fernando Ramos, Lily Cañon Valverde + Priest/Advisor: Mons. Joseph Kimu + Volunteers: Champions of the Good News who give their time and talents. Terry Modica Terry is cofounder and ...
Mother Mary Our Primary Patron Saint

Mother Mary Our Primary Patron Saint

We're under the protection of Our Lady of Lilies Before I tell you how Mary as Our Lady of the Lilies became the primary Patron Saint of Good News Ministries, it's important to point out that, in Scripture, the lily is recognized for its beauty and fragrance. It's often used to designate: royal...
Our Faith-Building Mission and Vision

Our Faith-Building Mission and Vision

How can we serve you today? We are delighted that you’re here! Come on in and explore our many opportunities to understand more fully God’s love for you. Become more certain of the saving power of Jesus Christ. And receive the miraculous anointing of the Holy Spirit. We will help you learn to ...
Our Imprimatur: Is This Ministry Trustworthy?

Our Imprimatur: Is This Ministry Trustworthy?

Is This Ministry Trustworthy? ~ Ecclesial Approval ~ Although an imprimatur is impossible due to the ever-growing number of writings available here and the fluid nature of many of these resources, rest assured that Church authority does oversee and approve of the works of Good News Ministries of Tampa...
Our Privacy and Anti-Spam Policy

Our Privacy and Anti-Spam Policy

To better protect your privacy, we provide this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. All of the mailing lists for Good News Ministries of Tampa Bay, Inc., are opt-in, meaning that no one can be added to...
Paid and Volunteer Help Wanted

Paid and Volunteer Help Wanted

Join the Team! If you want to make a world-wide difference for the Kingdom of God, join the Good News Ministries Team! We are here to open wide the door for you. Download and read our Mission and Principles PDF document, Who We Are, What We Believe, How We Serve the Lord . Download our 9...
The Good News Cross of Saint Benedict

The Good News Cross of Saint Benedict

Designed by artist Patrick Campbell In a collaboration between Good News Ministries and Patrick Campbell, founder of the Cross of Saint Benedict Society, the Good News Cross of Saint Benedict was designed in April of 2017 to protect your home and family from evil. It is shaped like a simple monstrance,...
The Story of Good News Ministries

The Story of Good News Ministries

"Do Whatever He Tells You" Hear the story of Good News Ministries from an interview of co-founder Terry Modica on her diocese's radio station. The story of Good News Ministries reveals God's amazing ways PHASE 1 The year 1993 was a real bummer for Ralph Modica. The company he...
Who is Ralph Modica?

Who is Ralph Modica?

Co-founder of Good News Ministries June 20, 1955 - February 5, 2024 Hear Ralph Modica interviewed on Young Catholics Respond (July 18, 2019) How God introduced me to the man I would marry by Terry Modica Ralph and I were high school sweethearts. We met in Public Speaking Class. At...
Who is Terry Modica?

Who is Terry Modica?

Co-founder of Good News Ministries Terry Modica is co-founder and Executive Director of Good News Ministries, author, international speaker, retreat director, photographer, podcast host, and faith formation teacher. Short Biography Mrs. Modica joined the Roman Catholic Church in 1977, drawn...

About Our Speaking Ministry:

Good News Ministries Inspirational Catholic Speakers

Good News Ministries Inspirational Catholic Speakers

Terry and Ralph Modica are Faith-building Catholic Speakers Terry Modica and her husband, Ralph, are Catholic Lay Evangelists -- Catholic parish mission speakers -- who provide inspirational, faith-building retreats, contemporary parish missions, and other adult faith formation events. They have...
Terry Modica, Catholic Speaker

Terry Modica, Catholic Speaker

Terry Modica Catholic Speaker, Evangelist, Author, Retreat Director Themes include: The Holy Spirit, Marriage, Relationships, Marian Life, Prayer, Evangelization, Bible study, Catholic Culture, Her Conversion Story from a Protestant upbringing and from the occult, Ministry Discernment, Pro-life ...
What do we teach as Catholic Evangelizers?

What do we teach as Catholic Evangelizers?

OUR FOCUS Good News Ministries is an international Catholic evangelization and faith formation ministry that teaches people to "Love God with your whole heart and your whole mind and your whole soul, and love others as you love yourself; love even your enemies, and do good to them." This is done ...
Catholic Speakers offer faith-building topics

Catholic Speakers offer faith-building topics

Suggested Themes for Good News Retreats and Parish Missions Mrs. Terry Modica (author, podcaster, founder and director of Good News Ministries since 1995) and her husband Ralph are Catholic speakers who can build faith and energize your people. Download our brochure and Terry Modica's...
Interested in hosting a Good News event?

Interested in hosting a Good News event?

Find out if Terry Modica is available to come to your event. For other reasons to contact us, please switch to the generic form . Speaker Press Kit >> More About Us >> Good News Ministries home page >>
Recommended Stipends for Good News Speakers

Recommended Stipends for Good News Speakers

The following suggested donations for speaker stipends may be discounted for small budgets; contact us for a solution that fits your group's needs. In some cases, we are able to do it at no cost by obtaining sponsorship from our own benefactors. Keynote conference presentation: $1,000 Non-profit...

See Terry’s Speaker Press Kit >>

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