Dear parishioners, As usual, I would like to provide the highlights of our most recent finance council meeting, which reviewed our finances through the end of February. At the end of February, our savings account held a little over $26,000. Second collection accounts. At the end of
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Hello everyone! Many thanks to everyone who has approached me to offer some feedback since I made the announcement about doing some long-term planning for our parish. Please know that I appreciate your input! I was sincere when I mentioned in that announcement that I feel everyone
Read more →Dear Parishioners, +JMJ Canon Law requires us once a year to make a “financial disclosure” to the parish. That is the purpose of this bulletin letter, along with the condensed end-of-year balance sheet, profit and loss statement and major projects list. Although I consider this
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 The Code of Canon Law requires that pastors make a financial disclosure regarding parish finances once a year. On a weekly basis we show in the bulletin how the collections measure up to the budget. But in this week’s bulletin you have the
Read more →Dear Parishioners, +JMJ We had a finance council meeting this past week, and with this bulletin letter I really want to focus primarily on what is happening with school finances – i.e., the vision. This is
Read more →+JMJ Dear Parishioners, On November 19th we had another finance council meeting. We began by looking at the balance sheet, the profit-and-loss statement, and the payables statement. The balance sheet showed $279,752 in usable savings, although about $25,407 of this money was given specifically for the moisture
Read more →Dear Parishioners, Here is a smorgasbord of parish activity/news that I am thinking of: -This past week the Paulding campus air conditioning committee met to finalize our decision to ask the Diocese for permission to upgrade the air conditioning system, fixing the problem of loudness, and lack
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