Father Bob Stagg is the pastor of The Church of the Presentation in Upper Saddle River, N.J., located in Northern Bergen County, with over 4,700 families and 100 ministries. Community service and volunteerism are hallmarks -- as diverse as growing a parish garden for soup kitchens in Newark and New York City, to the funding of a fully-staffed health clinic in Haiti. Father Bob is the best example of how preaching inspires and helps forward a cooperative model of pastoral leadership.

Father Manuel de Jesus Rodriguez is the pastor of Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church in Jamaica, Queens. Born in the Dominican Republic, Father Manuel is a priest of the Diocese of Brooklyn, N.Y. In this episode of Sunday to Sunday, we witness Father Manuel’s apostolic zeal that marks his every move. In preaching, he says: “It’s all about Jesus. It’s about his values, and the more we witness to that, the better.”