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A New $200,000 Challenge Grant 

We have Good News to share!  Feeling blessed by God and inspired by our “Year of Gratitude”, a different family from last year has just offered our parish a $200,000 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 inspirational “challenges”:

(A) Succeed in encouraging 1,600 families to complete and submit a Sacrificial Giving commitment card; 

(B) Take a total of 1,500 “steps” as a parish community toward our giving percentage goal of 10 percent;

(C) Actually collect $3,000,000 in Regular Sunday & Holy Day Envelope Offerings during the next year. 

The one year period begins on January 1, 2008. In our current situation, we could certainly use this $200,000! 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.

P.S.  Although this unprecedentedly large Challenge Grant is fantastic news and a wonderful opportunity for our parish in this special time of need, I must admit to you that it will be tougher to fulfill the conditions for this grant than those offered in the past.  However, I feel confident we can do it if we stick together like we always have and each fill-out a new Sacrificial Giving Commitment Card for 2008 and try our very best to take another step or 2 in the amount of our pledge.  I want you to know that since beginning our Sacrificial Giving process three years ago, we have always pulled together as a parish community and met the conditions for each and every challenge grant we have been offered.  We are also right on pace to fulfill last year’s $100,000 challenge grant which relates to our giving through the current calendar year ending 12/31/2007.

PROGRESS REPORT:  $200,000 Challenge Grant