What are your dreams for your parish?
Like most parish leaders, you are daily facing the challenges of adapting to an ever changing culture and increasingly busy parishioners. Add to this the pressure of leading an over extended staff with scarce volunteers, and it’s easy to get discouraged. As we strive to manage our daily demands, hopes and dreams begin to feel like a luxury. We want to help. Drawing on decades of ministry experience, Great Catholic Parishes founder John Poitevent accompanies leaders on an inspiring journey from good to great. Let us help you discover new vision while gaining valuable tools, coaching and confidence to pursue it. Click here to set up a call and explore new ways to create a great future.
Our Founder/Director
John Poitevent
John has a passion to see the local parish fulfilling all that it is called and created to be. His consulting draws from 30 years of experience in a variety of ministry roles including small groups director, missions and outreach, hospitality coordinator, and pastoral counselor. In the last decade he has helped over 100 pastors and parish teams experience breakthrough and revitalization.
In his free time you can find John enjoying the great outdoors. Whether it's hiking, camping, fishing, kayaking, tennis or cycling, he loves nothing more than being active, outside and discovering new places.
John is a Cum Laude, Outstanding Graduate of the MacArthur School of Leadership at Palm Beach Atlantic University.
“The parish is not an outdated institution; precisely because it possesses great flexibility, it can assume quite different contours depending on the openness and missionary creativity of the pastor and the community.”
Pope Francis
