Building Our Faith, Our Family, Our Future...

8/11/2023 Letter

As we continue to work through the campaign timeline, we want to share with you the process and how you can be involved with your stewardship of time, investment, and prayers. Your participation is key to the campaign success with the end result – a new parish hall, a worthy sanctuary for worship, and adequate meeting spaces for our various activities.

Our campaign includes a campaign committee:  Glenna Borho and Von Hampton – co-chairs; Bryan Barnard, Diana Barnard, David Borho, Nicole Curtis, Julie Haas, Lorin Haas, Luke Kumberg, Susan Pixler, Joy Schmidt, Jeanette Siemens, Erin Sluss, and Father Charles. Betty Johnson is our campaign consultant.

In the next few weeks, you will be receiving a phone call asking you to volunteer to be a caller to recruit home visitors. Names, a short training session, and a phone script will be provided to you – and this role will only take you a few hours.

Home visitors will NOT ask for money. We will be using a sealed envelope to ask for the pledges and cash for our campaign. A home visitor’s role is simply to drop off a sealed envelope to no more than five assigned fellow parishioners. This will take place November 5^th, Campaign Sunday. The home visitor will return in 2 weeks to pick up the signed, sealed commitment card for the campaign. The home visitor will drop off and pick up, will NOT ASK for money, and will NOT know how much was pledged.

All of these roles are important and we hope you will say yes when you receive a call to be a caller and/or a home visitor, as well as welcome your home visitor when they reach out to you.

The committee is working on a campaign brochure which will be available in the next few months. These will be mailed to each parish family and will include details on the project and different assets to use for your commitment.

Campaign gifts may be made over a 3-year pledge period. We encourage you to think, pray and then make a family decision to invest in your parish for today and for future generations – as your forefathers have done before you.

Many questions are being asked about the actual project and when it can happen. This all depends on our parish participation in the campaign. The diocese has procedures we must follow to ensure the work is done properly. We must have money raised and in the bank, must have pledges to pay for the project, and we must have the final plans approved by the diocese. The final approval from the Diocese will be based on the dollars raised and the final plans. Construction cannot start until these steps are fulfilled. At that time, the building committee will work with the contractor to accommodate his schedule and the availability of materials.

We welcome your questions – please reach out to committee co-chairs, Glenna Borho (620-388-2655 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) or Von Hampton (620-672-3472 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.), or to the parish office.

We welcome your participation as a volunteer, a donor, and a prayerful parishioner for the campaign and project success.

If you do not receive a call and are interested in volunteering, please call the parish office.