In 2022, our Immaculate Heart of Mary parish family is celebrating our 75th anniversary. During the last 73 years, our physical church has seen a number of changes, from the small wooden church in 1947 to the current church building from 1962, and the addition of the parish hall, classrooms and offices in the early 1990s. Generations of our parish family (including a few original parishioners still around) have supported the mission of the church and the upkeep, repair and expansion of the physical plant that facilitates our carrying out that mission.
Even in just the past few years, we have seen and experienced some major repairs and improvements, including replacing the sanctuary floor, improving our sound system, changing the church heating to natural gas and replacing the huge air conditioners that serve the church, replacing the heating and air conditioning for the parish hall, and of course, replacing our roof. All this and more has been accomplished with existing funds and unsolicited donations, to the tune of $560,000.
Yet there are still a few more physical plant improvements, some more glamorous than others, needed to ensure that we are ready for our next 75 years, including:
Our parish finance council recommended, and we have received permission from the Archdiocese to conduct a three-year Capital Campaign to raise at least $400,000 to address these needs.
Please reflect prayerfully about making a two-year pledge to the Capital Campaign, beyond your generous commitment to our operating budget through the offertory collections. Confident that God is never outdone in generosity, we hope that each household will make a sacrificial gift towards this Campaign. Our parish has been built on the generosity of so many people since our founding, a generosity which is our legacy to carry forward.
Always what is most needed is your prayers: please pray over your response to this invitation to help shape our parish’s future, but also pray for your fellow parishioners, and for the parish clergy and staff, as all of us together look to God for direction and strength as we prepare for our next 75 years as a parish family. The obviously visible part of this preparation is the physical plant projects mentioned above, but an even more important target of prayer is the spiritual regeneration and growth as a community on which we as a parish need to embark, and which these physical improvements will facilitate.
To make a pledge, please contact the Parish Office by clicking here,
or fill out this