Hello everyone! I would like to thank everyone who donated to make the recent rectory foundation repairs possible. Because of your generosity, we were able to raise the entire amount needed for both the interior and exterior foundation repairs. All of these donations were restricted gifts specifically
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Hello everyone, Our parish finance council met recently and the following is a summary of what we discussed. The first item we discussed is that the Diocese of Toledo recently conducted an audit of our parish. This is standard practice whenever a new pastor is assigned to
Read more →Dear parishioners, In last weekend’s bulletin, you noticed that this week, we will begin our parish-wide viewing and discussion of “The Search”, a seven-video series through FORMED. I would like to re-extend an open invitation to everyone in our parish to join me virtually this Wednesday, Jan.
Read more →Dear Parishioners, +JMJ Two weeks ago we had another finance council meeting. The following are highlights. -We looked at the parish financial reports, as usual: the balance sheet, the profit and loss statement, the Accounts Payable statement.Also, two members of the council reported on their
Read more →Dear Parishioners, +JMJ First off, a couple of our extraordinary eucharistic distributors at the Antwerp campus encountered some significant circumstances that prevent them from taking Holy Communion to our shut-ins from that campus. If there is anybody out there willing to be trained, please come forward.
Read more →Dear Parishioners, +JMJ Well into the summer now, I thought I’d give you the news that the rectory improvements accomplished over the past year or so are very much being appreciated! We used the new and improved second guest room upstairs for the weekend that Father
Read more →Dear Parishioners, +JMJ I’m happy to let you know that a couple weeks ago I got a call from the Fr. Phil Smith, Vocations Director for the Diocese, asking us to take a seminarian for a couple summer months. Of course, I said yes, because our
Read more →Dear Parishioners, +JMJ Last month, on November 16th, we had another finance council meeting. Other priorities kept me from putting the notes in the bulletin until now. Here are the highlights from that meeting: -We reviewed the balance sheet, profit and loss statement, and accounts payable
Read more →Dear Parishioners, +JMJ We have been making some modest, inexpensive, yet very effective changes to the feel of the rectory in Paulding. First, the extension tiles that we connected to the downspouts of the house – taking the water runoff away from the house and out
Read more →Dear Parishioners, +JMJ Last week we had our first finance council meeting of the new academic year. Below are the highlights: -We welcomed two new members, Beth Coughlin and Jon Knepper. Then we reviewed the purpose of the finance council, i.e., to give advice to the
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