Inside this Issue:
Q. When will each project be implemented?
A. Projects will be done by priority. Each project can begin when 75% of the cash is raised for that particular project, per Diocesan requirements. Example: Roof repairs will begin when 75% (approx. $229,000) of the $305,242 cost has been received.
Q. Will the parish take on any debt to accelerate work on the projects?
A. No. The fmance council does not want to incur any parish debt. Each project will be implemented as campaign funds are available from parishioner pledge payments.
Q. What will the "seed money" for a new parish center be used for?
A. Eventually, a new parish center will be designed and total cost determined. "Seed money" will be put aside for the parish center as a fundraising head-start toward whatever the total cost will be.
Q. When will more detailed plans about the new parish center be available?
A. .L\t this time we estimate the design of a new parish center may be in the next seven (7) years.
Q. Why is air-conditioning being added?
A. Installing air-conditioning while reworking the ventilation system is cost effective, adding approximately 15% to the total ventilation system rework cost.
Q. What will be done with donated campaign funds?
A. A separate bank account will be established for campaign funds and used only for the purposes outlined during the campaign. Parishioners will receive regular updates on the projects throughout the campaign.
Q. How extensive have the various capital improvements been studied?
A. A parishioner task force has reviewed and studied our capital improvement needs for over 1 year.
Q. Who was on the capital improvements task force?
A. Helping us be good stewards of the facilities entrusted to us, the following parishioners committed a tremendbus amount of time in reviewing our parish facility needs: Tom Blake, Camille Gabris, Kent Kiley, Paul Kuharevicz, Kevin Woods, Fr. Tom Simons and various architects, engineers, and specialists.
Q. How much will I be asked to give?
A. Everyone is first asked to reflect on his/her individual blessings and then pray about a sacrificial pledge to be paid over three years. Your pledge should be over and above your current giving to the parish.
Q. What does "sacrificial" mean?
A. A sacrificial pledge is one that requires you to change your lifestyle while fulfilling it.
Q. When will I have an opportunity to make my three-year pledge?
A. December 2 and 3 is "Commitment Weekend" -parishioners will be asked to confidentially register their 3-year commitments during the weekend Masses.
Q. How do I decide what I should commit to our "Fit at Forty" capital stewardship campaign?
A. Prayer and reflection! One of the campaign themes is "Not Equal Gifts, but Equal Sacrifice." Everyone is blessed differenty. Although everyone cannot give the same amount, if our gift is motivated by a genuine level of sacrifice. ..then the gifts are equal in the sight of God. ". ..but each of you with as much as you can give, in proporlton to the blessings which the Lord, your God, has bestowed on you." Deuteronomy 16:17
This chart illustrates the type of three-year pledges (committments)
needed to reach our financial goals.
"It is our peril as Christians that we forget giving is a response to the grace of God. Stewardship requires a change from imagining ourselves as owners to seeing ourself as trustees."
-Bishop Robert Morneau
