I hope all is well with you and your family. As fall arrives, we prepare to enter the final year of our capital campaign: Our Parish, Our Future: Building to Serve.

To date, we’ve surpassed our first two milestones and are within striking distance of our campaign goal. Great progress has already been made. So far, we rebuilt (and paid for) the parish house and a new multi-purpose room, accelerated repayment of our mortgage (to be extinguished in December 2019), and started the renovation of the school bathrooms. However to finish the campaign projects we must reach our $4 million goal.

If we do not receive further support we will not be able to complete the critical tasks that are part of this campaign. As the condition and structure of each bathroom was assessed, costly issues were uncovered that were not part of the initial estimat...