Updates for Capital Campaign
9/17/2023
Parishioners – if you have not received your phone call to be a home visitor to assist in our Building Our Faith, Our Family, Our Future… capital campaign, please call the parish office and let us know you are interested in being a home visitor - - your participation is appreciated and welcomed!
As you know, Sacred Heart has embarked on a Capital Campaign to enhance our worshipping space and our facility. An important aspect of this campaign involves volunteers contacting
members through a personal visit. Each visitor will be asked to simply deliver sealed envelopes, with campaign information, to approximately 5 households of the parish on Sunday, November 5. Within the following two weeks, and by Sunday, November 19, visitors will return to the same parish households and pick up their commitment card in a sealed envelope.
This task should only take about one hour of your time each Sunday. Visitors will be fully trained on how to make these contacts and the best part is you will not have to ask people for
money! The success of this campaign depends on our ability to visit all of our fellow parishioners.
Callers – if you have not returned your home visitors list to Betty Johnson & Associates, the deadline is September 22nd. Your time on this is appreciated.
Your continued prayers for a successful capital campaign important as we work together to enhance and grow our parish.
9/11/2023
Please be open to calls from fellow parishioners and yes to being a home visitor. It will only take you a few hours, you will have no more than 5 homes to drop off and pick a sealed packet, and you will not have to ask for money. This capital campaign is important for our parish and our Catholic faith. Many are working hard to make it happen after we have talked about it for many, many years. We hope you will join in and be a part of this exciting time in your parish and do all you can to make it happen.
Just a reminder of what the project is and why it is so important.
Create a peaceful, quiet, reverent Holy environment of worship, including narthex, nave, choir space and sanctuary.
Beautify our space that is worthy to display God’s gifts.
Accessible bathrooms for all.
The new parish hall will seat 300, more with no tables.
Classroom and meeting spaces for our many activities.
Increased outreach to grow our church and our faith.
Although we do not have a timeline on when the renovations will start, the building committee continues to meet with the builders and the diocese to finalize the details. The final cost will be determined once the project starts, but we will continue working with the contractors and diocese to ensure the parish finances are not in jeopardy.
Your continued prayers and support are greatly appreciated - together we will make it happen!
8/27/2023
A big shout out to the parishioners who said yes to help recruit home visitors for our Capital Campaign – Thank you! And another shout out to the capital campaign committee members for recruiting the volunteers who so graciously said yes. For those who are helping with this next step in the campaign process, packets and information will be handed out on Wednesday, September 6 th , at 7:00 pm at the church. A short training will be included. We appreciate all your support and prayers as we all work together to make our church more welcoming and inviting through the renovations to modernize our parish facilities.
Please pray for God’s guidance throughout this process as well as the campaign volunteers and our entire Sacred Heart parish community.
8/20/2023
Volunteer recruitment will be ongoing over the next few months, please be open to being to committing some of your time to help as we all work together to restore our church. Together we can grow our parish, our church community, and our faith. We will be asking for volunteers to help in 2 ways, short trainings will be provided, as well as
necessary materials:
To help recruit home visitors
To be a home visitor.
Home visitors will not have to ask for money, but simply drop off a sealed packet to about 5 homes, and return the following week to pick up their signed and envelope and bring it by the parish office. As a parishioner receiving a home visit, you will not be pressured to give, but to read the materials, think and pray about your commitment to this parish project, complete your commitment card, and hand it back to your home visitor the following Sunday in a sealed envelope. Your home visitor will not know what you were asked to give, nor will they know what you decide to give.