This article deals with the problem of evangelization in Christian family in the teaching of John Paul II. First of all it shows the origin of the word “evangelization” and its meaning. Then the article describes evangelizational problems, a relation between evangelization and catechesis and the particular role of a family in the evangelizational mission. Finally, on this background, it presents the teaching of John Paul II as concerns evangelization in Christian family. A family, according to the Pope, is the first and fundamental evangelizational environment. In this particular community all the members evangelize and are evangelized. And the future of evangelization depends in great part on a family.
