A New $250,000 Challenge Grant
We have Good News to share! Feeling blessed by God and inspired by our 50th Anniversary theme, "Looking Back with Gratitude, Looking Forward with Hope”, a parishioner family has just offered our parish a $250,000 gift to continue the process of encouraging and "challenging" all of us to pull together to both increase our giving and expand the number of families participating in Parish Sacrificial Giving through the pledging process.
In order for the Parish to receive the gift, we must meet all three of the following new “challenges” or conditions:
- Succeed in encouraging 1,500 families to complete and submit a Sacrificial Giving commitment card;
- Take a total of 1,000 “steps” as a parish community toward our giving percentage goal of 10 percent;
- Actually collect $2,500,000 in Regular Sunday & Holy Day Envelope Offerings during the next year.
The one year period begins on January 1, 2010. In our current situation, we could certainly use this $250,000! Please do what you can... The commitment card has a place for you to recommend (1 card per family) where you would like to see this grant money channeled. Thanks in advance for helping us to meet this "challenge". Sacrificial Giving: Planned, Proportionate, & Sacrificial.