My name is Fr. Charlie Garza and I grew up with Amazing Parish as a pastor. I was made a pastor in April of 2014 at St. Martin de Porres in Dripping Springs, TX. I quickly realized I did not know what I was doing and cried out to God asking for help in a vulnerable...
Every Person Deserves an Amazing Parish Almost exactly thirty days ago, I began this new role as the Executive...
Tim and his wife Maggie live in Littleton, CO with their four young children, Eva (8), Theo (6), Charlie (4), and Vera...
Fr. Mike Schmitz delivers the keynote welcome at the San Antonio Summit in 2024.
Amazing Parish Announces New Executive Director Tim Glemkowski will take the reins of Denver-based parish apostolate...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Strategy Takes Courage One of the biggest differences between leading a parish during the age of Christendom vs. Apostolic Mission is strategy. In the old days of Christendom, parishes were largely the same, operating like...
What Are We Assuming? I love a saying that I heard recently. “What is assumed is often what is most important.” The idea is that in so many situations in life, we erringly assume that something is understood or true, and we are left wondering why our plans...
Have you ever felt like you had too many things going on in your life but you were afraid to cut anything out because they all felt important? Fr. Nathan Dail, chaplain of St. Paul’s Catholic Student Center on the Boise State University campus, certainly felt this...
If you look around your parish and already see staff who are: highly engaged and motivated to do their jobs, keenly aware of the huge impact that they are having, and are deeply known by you and their coworkers, then you should probably skip this post. If you are...
It was the year 2019. Fr. Andrew Chung was the new administrator at St. Pancratius in Lakewood, CA. Fr. Chung was feeling very alone and confused as a leader before he encountered the Amazing Parish movement. He knew something needed to change but was not familiar...
The War on Mediocrity Mediocrity is one of those words that seems relatively innocuous but gets people’s attention. I suppose there is something particularly stinging about the prospect of being called mediocre. There are those who say that the opposite of love is not...
The parish leadership team (PLT) at Our Lady of the Lake Parish in Hendersonville, TN had a hunger to make their parish excellent leading up to the Amazing Parish Summit in Phoenix, AZ. During their three days in the desert, the team realized that unceasing prayer is...
Dara Stephens felt a sense of meaninglessness and misery working in a money-driven insurance sales job prior to accepting the business manager role at the City of St. Jude Parish in Montgomery, Alabama. Her new position working with the parish leadership team at City...
Annie Deters is a member of the PLT at Sacred Heart Parish in a small town called Sabetha in Kansas. Prior to attending the Amazing Parish Summit in Phoenix, Annie felt pressure to be a perfectionist at work. "I was driven by perfection and the need for affirmation at...
Without clarity on which “hat” you are wearing in a given moment as a leader in your parish, staff and volunteers are left wondering things like, “Does Father really want that new ministry to start or was he just brainstorming? Is he telling me this as my boss or as a...