Parish Events



ADVENT RETREAT * BECOMING INTENTIONAL DISCIPLES * DECEMBER 5TH-7TH


Schedule of Events:

Friday, December 5, 6pm

  • Dinner (provided)
  • Session 1: The Call to Discipleship
  • To be a Christian is to be a Disciple
  • The work of a disciple is to become like Jesus
  • Call to holiness and mission
  • Adoration
  • Guided meditation, silence, music

Saturday, December 6, 8am

  • Mass
  • Breakfast (provided)
  • Session 2: Becoming Intentional Disciples
  • Daily conversion and growing in life of prayer. Unceasing Prayer - Personal, Communal, and Spontaneous
  • Exercise: Conversation 1
  • Lunch (provided)
  • Session 3: Go Therefore and Make Disciples!
  • Simple ways to evangelize. Spontaneous prayer, sharing your faith, responding to God’s prompting
  • Exercise: Conversation 2/3




*Nate Schaff  serves as a Parish Transformation Coach for Amazing Parish. In this role, he helps parish communities grow and strengthen their faith. His work follows his previous experience as a missionary for Life Teen and a youth minister.  He is married, has five children, and he and his wife enjoy gardening, raising chickens and homeschooling their children.