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...
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,...
This webinar features New York Times best-selling author Pat Lencioni and Catholic speaker and author Jeff Cavins. In this webinar, you’ll learn 4 best practices that help a parish leadership team build a thriving parish. In working with parishes across the country,...
A friend of mine who works in a parish recently asked me to help him assess how well his parish was doing in regard to what it learned during the Amazing Parish Conference. I responded by asking him a series of questions which provides something of a self-assessment...