Parish Transition To Making Disciples Part 3: Tooling Up Disciples First
I frequently get asked about the process of making disciples. While I believe that we critically need to start making disciples, I get the sense that we are not ready […]
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Parish Transition To Making Disciples Part 1: All Aboard
For those parishes that are really serious about wanting to fulfill the true mission of making disciples, there is a question constantly before them. “How do we transform our parish […]
Planning For Success
The best part about working for the Catholic Church is that you really don’t need to plan much to succeed. God does it – right? If you have ever been […]
Pain in a Parish
No pain, no gain is a persistent maxim not only in personal exercise, but also in life. The good things we want in life seem to only come through some […]
The Secret Sauce for True Community
There’s a huge emphasis for our parishes to be welcoming communities, and this emphasis is good! Yet, do we recognize the missing piece to community? It is the one critical element […]
Too Big to be Effective
I have had the pleasure of visiting several parishes that are not only large in size and membership, but also in the number of ministries. There is an amazing fruit […]
Why won’t people sign up for our Programs?
Just about every Parish Staff has received this memo from their parish membership. “We are not coming!” Despite the numerous pulpit announcements, bulletin inserts, signs posted around the parish and […]
At the Service of Evangelization
For years, I have been wondering why all the efforts of our local parishes to catechize our youth have brought about so few results. After spending four years on the […]