by St. Ann Staff | Oct 26, 2014 | Pastor's Pen
From the Pastor’s Pen: Many thanks to all who helped to make our annual garage sale such a huge success. Rough estimates put the funds raised at about $3,000. As always, a huge thanks to Bob Reid for organizing the affair, arranging the pick-up of large items, and...
by St. Ann Staff | Oct 19, 2014 | Pastor's Pen
of Gratefulness and Stewardship… After my stewardship report of a few weeks ago, a parishioner put it upon herself to start the “21 Club” to help reduce the deficit. In her own words, she said: “All I could think was this, if 21 people gave $1000 it would cure...
by St. Ann Staff | Oct 12, 2014 | Pastor's Pen
The challenges before us… Diocesan wide… So an interesting thing happened at our Deanery meeting this past Monday. Our dean had but one topic of discussion for us to begin to mull over. But it is a doozy. If you remember more than a few years ago, there was a small...
by St. Ann Staff | Oct 5, 2014 | Pastor's Pen
The challenges before us… St. Ann is a part of the Northwest Deanery of the Archdiocese. When demographers speak of our deanery, they speak of 3 separate deaneries – the West-comprised of stable but aging parishes, the Middle – with the highest concentration of...
by St. Ann Staff | Sep 28, 2014 | Pastor's Pen
Parish Stewardship Report – the short version… Though we will mail out a complete version of the parish financial report with your year-end statements, and will have that report online within a week or so, I wanted to give you the ‘thumbnail sketch’ of the parish...
