You did it!!!
Though the pledges keep trickling in, at this stage we are at just under 117% of our goal in the Beyond Sunday Campaign. EVERY gift, from great to small and every-thing in-between, will make a difference, not just here at St. Ann, but across our Archdiocese. Thank you, not just for your gifts, but for the faith behind your gifts. That is what makes my heart proud as a pastor – to know that you are willing to make sacrificial gifts, not just for our St. Ann parish, but for Catholic education throughout the Archdiocese because of your love of the Lord. What a treasure that is as I pray at night for all of you.
So, when do the repairs start?
Block one of the campaign runs from this past June through Dec 31st. They will take final stock of the pledges, payments and what is still owed. From the money they actually have ON HAND from those pledges as of that day, they will determine our 40% for this first period of the pledges. An electronic transfer of funds will hap-pen for that initial 40% somewhere around the beginning of March. I suspect that first transfer to be around $20,000. On June 30, 2016, they will look at what has been collected SINCE Jan. 1, 2016, and transfer those funds around the beginning of September. That pattern will repeat, twice a year, until all the pledges are fulfilled.
In the mean time, though we have some rough estimates on one method of replacing the roof over the center part of the church, I will seek advice and bids from at least three companies. Combined with some Sponsor’s dinner dance funds, I hope to have the best solution for roofing scheduled and in place before the end of this fiscal year in June…
And then we will proceed with the repairs to the window framing behind our stained glass window that protects it from the elements. And so it goes, down the list as our priorities’ needs for the funds. Thus, the work with the St. Ann’s portion of the funds will proceed as the funds are made available to us, twice a year, because of your ongoing faithfulness to your pledges. Once again, thank you for your AMAZING generosity. To quote one of my students: “You make my heart happy!”
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Finally, thank you for your patience with the boiler re-pairs. We think we have isolated the last needed change to the system and have made those repairs. God willing, all that remains is routine maintenance…