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’s vision is to see every parish fully alive—faithfully living out all that it is called and created to be. With more than 30 years of ministry experience in small groups, missions, outreach, hospitality, and counseling, he brings both breadth and depth to his consulting. Over the past decade, John has walked alongside more than 100 pastors and parish teams, helping them discover breakthrough, renewal, and sustainable growth.
Outside of ministry, John thrives in the great outdoors. Whether hiking, camping, fly fishing, kayaking, playing tennis, or cycling, he finds joy in staying active and exploring new places.
John graduated Cum Laude as the 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“The parish is not an outdated institution; precisely because it possesses great flexibility, it can assume quite different contours depending on the openness and missionary creativity of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
