[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.” ...
If you look around your parish and already see staff who are: highly engaged and motivated to do their jobs, keenly...
Have you ever felt like you had too many things going on in your life but you were afraid to cut anything out because...
It was the year 2019. Fr. Andrew Chung was the new administrator at St. Pancratius in Lakewood, CA. Fr. Chung was...
Bishop-Elect, Fr. Jorge Rodriguez of the Archdiocese of Denver, talks about how the Amazing Parish Program is revitalizing our parishes and bringing Catholics back to the pews.
Let's Do Something A friend of mine, I’ll call him John because that’s his name, decided to leave the consulting firm where he and I worked years ago, and on the day before his departure, an executive of the firm did one of those wonderful “exit interviews” with him. ...
Pastors bring their teams to Amazing Parish conference By Nichole Golden | The Georgia Bulletin | March 23, 2017 ATLANTA—Parish leadership teams from across the archdiocese, the nation and as far away as Canada visited Atlanta March 13 to 15 to learn how parishes can...
Pat Lencioni speaks to the 2017 Atlanta Amazing Parish conference participants.
Evangelization and Discipleship in the "Workplace" No, this short essay is not about bringing Jesus to the secular world, as crucial as that is. What I’m thinking about is the workplace that we call a parish. If parishes are ever going to teach people how to bring...
Building a Better Parish: A conversation with Pat Lencioni of Amazing Parish By Amy Marter | The Priest | December 27, 2016 Serving in a parish is one of the joys of priestly ministry, but it is also one that is fraught with challenges. In an effort to help pastors...
A webinar and Q&A session with New York Times best-selling author Pat Lencioni and Catholic speaker and author Jeff Cavins. Amazing homilies are the quickest way to improve your parish’s Sunday Experience. In this webinar, you'll learn four concrete ways to...
Something remarkably simple happened recently, and I want to share it with every parish in the world. I was at a convocation of priests recently where a handful of pastors who had attended The Amazing Parish conference presented to their peers many of the practices...
Doing something amazing for the Church By Brian Fraga | November 1, 2016 Every serious Catholic wants their parish to be amazing. But a vibrant parish that is on fire for the Catholic faith, that offers great opportunities for catechetical and adult faith formation,...