Mission Impact
Parish Leadership Team
Fr. Jaime Zarse Biography
My name is Fr. Zarse and I am the pastor of Sacred Heart of Jesus.
The two most important days in my life were 26 years apart. The first was my baptism, which occurred on the feast of the Holy Innocents, December 28th, 1986. The second was my ordination to the priesthood of Jesus Christ, which occurred on May 24th, 2014. The first of these events sealed my identity as a son of the Father. The second of these events sealed my vocation and mission.
The Holy Spirit has placed on my heart a mission for our parish in this time to put all hearts on a collision course with the Sacred Heart of Jesus. He has provided clarity on how we are to measure such collisions with our five foundation stones. These foundation stones are the most important work in our parish. They are the foundation upon which everything is built. We take them so seriously that we are measuring each of them on a quarterly basis. The five foundation stones are eucharistic encounters, rosary, fasting, Scripture, and confession.
Here at Sacred Heart our niche is the war on mediocrity. And we chose that because of the etymology of the word mediocrity (mediocris: meaning midway point up the rock face). Here at Sacred Heart we believe that Jesus meant what he said when he named that he came that we might have life and have it more abundantly (Jn. 10:10 NAB). We see this as a call to scale the rock face, rather than settling for the midway point. We do not want the midway point, we want to journey to the summit. We want the fullness of life. We want a collision with the sacred heart of Jesus. Friends, we will see you at the summit.
Emily Dumler Biography
Emily and her husband, Scott, joined Sacred Heart parish in 2006 and are blessed with three beautiful children. Emily was born in San Angelo, Texas but grew up in Wichita, Kansas. She comes from a big Catholic family, almost all of which attended Kansas State University. She followed in their footsteps and graduated from Kansas State in 2003 with a degree in Public Relations.
In May of 2016, Emily began to pray that God would transform her life, and within weeks Emily accepted the position of Director of Religious Education. “The Lord most certainly had a plan…far better than anything I could have planned for myself. This ministry has blessed me in more ways than I could ever explain. My prayer is that it will do the same for the ALL of the families enrolled in our School of Religion program.” Emily Dumler has worked at Sacred Heart since 2016 as the Director of Religious Education, First Sacraments Coordinator, and now as the Director of Parish Life.