What products is he selling that you aren’t buying?
I called them "products" because anything you are trying to convince people of doing for you is like a "product" you are selling.
For example, he wants people to go to his Ignatian Retreats in Sanford, he wants people to go on the parish pilgrimage, people to set up booths at the parish International cooking festival..... He wants people to clean, repair, maintain the property, plant trees, cut down trees...….
Those are activities that are done in St. Mary's which has 5000 parishioners, not 200 like Sanford.